What did your parents never let you do growing up?

[ThePinkDreamer]

Go on the computer too long

Yeah, my mum said prostitutes wear ankle bracelets.

Do we have the same now? Will our children write threads like these in the future?
‘I wasn't allowed Netflix, only Disney+’

They probably will but I think things have moved on regarding strange old wives tales , and a preoccupation with anything deemed ‘common’ that seem to have influenced the parents of so many on here

This is my normal, I never just have the tv on in the background.

Only allowed to watch BBC1 and BBC2.
I wasn’t allowed a dog.
But I was allowed to go out wandering wherever/whenever I wanted!

Same here. And Eastenders!

@Burntout101 I wasn't allowed to watch ITV either. Apparently it was common.

Was just coming to say Mr Frosty. Got my kids one and had to admit to my mum that she was right. Pile of shite.

You've just brought back a memory, neither was I, it was a sign of a 'lady of the night' fml. I wear them all the time now, I think it's my inner rebellion.

And it has ads. Parents want to avoid pester power.

My m-i-l knew one person, on one occasion who had some sort of sickness bug, after having a Mr Whippy ice cream.

She doesn't even know that the vomiting was caused by the ice cream.

This was 40 years ago, now, but she didn't let my husband and his siblings have Mr Whippy from the ice cream van.

Wasn't allowed a cabbage patch doll mum said they were ugly

Have a dog (Dad only. Dad: 'Who's going to take this dog out for a walk on a rainy Winter night?' Five-year old me: 'Me, daddy.')
Tell my mum my dad had bought cigarettes - six packets a week to take to work. Dad, kneeling down in the tobacconist's, pressing a Fry's Turkish Delight into my hand, looking me in the eyes and saying: 'Now don't tell your mother.' I was fiercely loyal and didn't. The Turkish Delight bribe was nice but not necessary.
Use Tampax (Mum only. By osmosis, I understood that using tampons, for my mum, meant losing my virginity. I used them nonetheless.)
Bringing cow parsley into the house - it brings bad luck. (Mum only)

Fun thread! Thank-you @ThePinkDreamer

I'd forgotten about this. My mum had a thing about there being salmonella in the nozzle.

Same here!!
It was ridiculous.

The sign of a lady of the night.
No idea where this idea originated from.

Yes, you’re all right, no ice cream from a van because ‘they are dirty’. Might be right but they are certainly cheaper from the freezer :)

The Mr Frosty ban seems to be a common theme

Wear jeans
Have my ears pierced
Have a Barbie doll
Use the phone before 6pm

No jelly shoes.

Have a Baby Born doll (literally all I ever wanted. Had various inferior imposters)

Eat or drink in my bedroom

Have a boyfriend sleepover (which I totally respect now as a parent myself but was fuming about at 18/19 😏)

Thats about it really. My parents were hands off and borderline neglectful so not much we weren’t allowed to do,

What I wasn't allowed to do.
Anything.
Mother controlled everything.

It would probably be quicker to list the things I was allowed, some of the ones I wasn’t allowed included:

Have sweets/chocolate/crisps
Have white bread
Eat fast food
pierce my ears
shave my legs
have fashionable clothes
watch ITV/channel 4
Leave school at lunchtime (all the other kids were allowed so I was often alone and left out)
Dye my hair
Have conditioner or any products for my thick frizzy hair
Have braces for my wonky teeth
Go to theme parks

No jeans
No friends around
No snacks
No going into town until I was 15, and only to the library
No heels
No friends who were boys
No after school clubs
No posters on the wall
No dating
No cinema
No magazines
OMG the uproar when I bought a toner/shader sachet after I started work at 16.
No ankle bracelets
No make-up
No leg shaving
And on and on and on

On the plus side, it made me a much nicer mum.

That reminded me of my mum - we were never allowed chewing gum as she said it would give us worms!!

Get a photograph taken with a monkey in town. They always absolutely freaked over it, I desperately wanted to get near the monkey but NO WAY was this allowed. It went on for years, no matter where we were, were these a popular thing years ago? It seems mad now!!
I think they were saying they had lice and infections but I must ask them what that was about now as an adult and see what they say was the reason they were so ferociously opposed to this.

Everything else, ok 😂but do not go near the little monkey.