What did your parents never let you do growing up?

[ThePinkDreamer]

Go on the computer too long

Leave the dinner table until my plate was clean

Eating sweets on a weekday, it was only allowed on a Saturday. Wearing scruffy clothes

Choose own outfits until about 12.
Play football in the house.
Make mud pies in the garden. Got a bollocking for that.
Ears pierced. I did it anyway.
Swear.
Do ice skating lessons.
Play football as extra curricular or rugby.
Stay up past Coronation St coming on as a kid.

Oh my goodness! Tomorrow is the day! Go for it!

Just say to her, after you've had it done, that you love them and that's all that matters.

Get a perm til I was 18
Banned from saying "bu- uha" -ie butter without pronouncing the tt
Grange Hill
Teen disco - went anyway and said I was at the cinema

My parents were strict in some ways but then we went on hols to Las Vegas and as my Mum hated casinos my Dad took me instead at 16 (had to be over 21). we got away with it for 3 nights then I got asked for ID!

Learn to play the violin.

Have ears pierced - had them done at 33.
Watch Grange Hill. Mum must have given in though as I remember watching Zammo wash his drugs down the sink.

I’m very thankful for the way my parents parented after reading a lot of these- especially the bizarre obsessions with not looking ‘common’ 😂

Ballet. Watch soaps. Watch Grange Hill. Watch tv in the morning except for school holidays. Read teen girl magazines that weren’t ’girl talk’. Read ‘forever’ by Judy Blume. Wear jeans, or trousers in general (only up to age 7, seemingly fine after that). Go to youth clubs. Have a Mr Frosty. Have any Take That merchandise. Have a boyfriend (up to age 15 or so).

All except the ballet were thought to be ‘common’. The ballet was apparently because of osteoporosis which I’m actually quite grateful for now because I ended up doing quite well in another sport.

there were also a lot of things we didn’t do as a family because they were ‘too middle class’ like camping, buying salmon etc 😂

In retrospect, now that I’m a parent, a lot of this is just bloody weird 🧐 and I’m going to ask my mum next time I see her 😂😂

Sports
Ride a bike
Have playdates at our house or birthday parties

Watch Grange Hill.

Having my ears pierced- I honestly felt like the only 15 year old in the world that wasn’t allowed- but looking at this thread seems like I wasn’t alone !

I had a really strict mum - looking back I actually think she shows several strong autistic tendencies

they used to have takeaways every Saturday, but the kids didn’t, we would have a shared frozen pizza. I think I was 17 before I had a Chinese/ pizza takeaway

it seems a bizarre thing to do, I couldn’t imagine having a takeaway and not getting the kids something- different when they were babies/ toddler of course.

although we must have been better behaved as kids , because mine would have kicked up a right fuss if I did it

having said that I would have been hit with her flip flop if I kick up a fuss

Wear shoes that were made out of plastic.

Swearing was not allowed. The worst I ever heard my mum say was 'bloody' or 'damn.'

Chewing gum was tolerated, just, but bubble gum was beyond the pale for some bizarre reason.

I wasn't allowed to have my ears pierced until I was 11.

I was strongly discouraged from doing/saying or wearing anything my mum considered common, but apart from that I practically dragged myself up with very little adult intervention really, and could go out where I wanted, as late as I wanted, with whomever I wanted, not come home even, skip school, drink, have sex, and she barely noticed or cared. It was a weird childhood where outside appearances of respectabilty and class mattered a great deal, but other than that nothing mattered.

Eat cheese at night as it would give us bad dreams

Oh god yes it was "common" to eat in the street, also common to smoke but ok if you were male. Some busy bodies actually 'phoned the school to report some girls for eating in the street.

Leaving food was also a big one, sitting sobbing at the dinner table with a cold plate of food as I couldn't get a gristly bit of stewing steak down.

Wasn't allowed gum or to watch top of the pops or any soaps as they were "common"

Leave the house without something covering my head. It's wasn't anything to do with religion, just that no matter how long it was brushed for, the minute I moved my hair looked like a mattress had exploded. The idea of me being in public looking like some wild-haired child of the forest was just to much for my parents to handle. I think mum was worried some one would call "the social" for neglect.

Another Scottish 1960/ 1970s childhood

No ITV
No ears pierced
No Hot Pants ( to be fair, I was a chunky wee thing, that was probably a blessing)
Absolutely no failing - ever.

I love that my sisters bring their dc up to never fear failure. I really admire their spirit.

soda stream machine and weekly delivery of fizzy drinks by the milkman (good decision)

We did once try ITV after school but the adverts were terrible. They were all for really attactive toys and Matey bubble bath and stuff like that. They were almost addictive after a single viewing. I turned back to BBC with a great feeling of relief.

This was what we were being protected from by skipping ITV:

Search youtube for "Matey advert 80's"

Eat curlywurlies (bad for your teeth, other sweets were OK though)
Have fizzy drinks
Get my ears pierced
Wear high heels
Wear make up
Wear sexy clothes
Dye my hair blonde
Stay home on my own while my parents went on holiday
Watch TV while I was eating dinner
Stay up after 9pm
Have my own white horse
Go to pop concerts on my own
Marry David Cassidy

All very very very very unfair

Swear. Was once sent to bed for saying "Dam, I missed the Flinstones!"

Go to brownies, or dancing or join any clubs.