What did your parents never let you do growing up?

[ThePinkDreamer]

Go on the computer too long

Be an individual

Ha! ITV (or Idiot Vision in our house!) was banned. Weirdly, my parents still don't watch it. I once asked my mum if she was a Downton Abbey fan and she said "no. It's typical ITV rubbish." I know that if it was a BBC programme, they'd love it!

I was never allowed to wear my lovely white tucker boots that I bought at jumble sale. I could never understand this as so many of our clothes were jumble sale purchases.

Not allowed to drink Coke. Own brand colas were tolerated at Christmas, but genuine Coke? No way.

Sleepovers. My mum refused most of the time.

Now I get it.

Fucking hate sleepovers. Either have kids here dicking about all night then dossing around all morning. Or I get my own kids back tired and grumpy after doing the same at someone else's house.

Eat chocolate
Eat fast food
Have 'girl' toys Care Bears, MLP, Barbie,
Wear 'girl' clothes, I desperately wanted patent leather shoes, frilly socks and a party dress. I had kickers, dungarees and a duffle coat,

Also couldn't say bum or belly!

Stay in school uniform after school
Sleep anywhere other than own bed

Ironically I was the child who would have been allowed coco pops and milkshakes (on special occasions) and I hated both! Friends were jealous!

Bless you ♥️ I hope you've had a better adulthood

Is anyone allowed to do this?

Get my ears pierced. (I had them done when I was 17 and my parents didn't notice for weeks. My younger sisters were then allowed to have their ears pierced when they were 12.)
Call adults - any adults - by their first names.
Use even mildly offensive language.

Crinkle cut chips. Had to be straight cut every time. I love buying them now, feels oddly rebellious 😂

I was allowed to do all these things. 🤣

I wasn't allowed to swear

Have a voice.

My brother was allowed to swear but I wasn’t!

Crinkle cut chips too, never bought, so they must have been a lot more expensive.

Wear polyester or nylon.

Watch TV on Saturday mornings. In fact, not really watch much TV at all!

Have long hair with pigtails or pony tails. All my friends had pretty bobbles in their hair. Mine was always cut in a wonky fringe and cut round my very large stick out ears...

Have nice shoes. Everything had to be "practical" and hard wearing. I wanted "kickers" but my mum only let me have the Clarke's equivalent ( same price) which had an ugly crepe wedge sole.

Bring peacock feathers or heather into the house! My mother was irrationally superstitious.

No whistling - it wasn’t ‘ladylike’
Wash my hair during my period.
Eat in the street.

Say pig or bum or belly or aye

Watch Eastenders

No fizzy bought. I felt we were the only family in the street who didn’t get the bonacord van

We couldn't watch a repeat of a programme if we had originally watched it, they did apply this rule to themselves as well but seemed to have changed their minds when they both retired and starting watching the UK Drama and Gold tv channels.
Looking back it seems such a strange rule.

Not allowed to have ears pierced. Not allowed to eat in the street. Not allowed to leave food.

No more than 3 biscuits in one day. Not allowed to watch The Sweeney, Within these Walls or Charlie's Angels. Not in our house but Grandma used to cut page three out of the newspaper before giving the newspaper to Grandad.

No TV at all until I was 10!