What did your parents never let you do growing up?

[ThePinkDreamer]

Go on the computer too long

Just saw this after I'd posted on another thread about not being allowed to read at the table. I used to read the sides of cereal packets in desperation when eating breakfast :)

I didn't get one either, but I can imagine it is indeed utter yuck!

No TV on a Sunday - religion
No short or long skirts at school (mine was always plain, knee length - I always wanted short pleated skirt like the other girls and it wasn't until 6th year I was finally allowed one
Ice cream as a pudding was a once a month treat

I was actually allowed to play "table" tennis against my bedroom wall. It is a bit of a surprise to me now that my parents allowed it.

I should have said the little monkey was sitting on a man’s shoulder, he would maybe have a hat or some clothes on.

Does anyone else remember that?

I wasn't allowed to watch Jim'll fix it either. I am glad about that now.

I did see the episode with a 5 year old meeting Torvill & Dean. I hope she was ok given what we now know about Savile.

I wasn't allowed to be a vegetarian. Also wasn't allowed to express a preference for anything or make any choices or decisions.

I'm like that now, I don't have it on as wallpaper.

I got banned from watching Lassie and the littlest hobo as I'd cry every time 🤣

@buttnut my grandmother said I wasn't allowed an ankle bracelet because tart's wore them 🤣😮

Please someone tell me they remember those monkeys in Ireland in the 80’s??? There must be tons of photos out there, it felt like I was the only one not allowed near them!!

If you have a monkey photo I would like to see it, because if I have imagined all of this then I will have to forgive my parents tonight 😁

There's a voice...

Keeps on calling me

There’s a photo somewhere of me with a monkey, but it wasn’t Ireland, I think it was at the seaside. Some of these make me sad, my childhood was not bad really.

I grew up in the 60s, and we didn’t have a TV at all (unusual even then).

bubblegum; chewing gum was tolerated but I hardly ever had any.

No eating in the street. My 70 year old sister and I once got a sandwich to eat on a park bench and turned to each other to say ‘ooh we’d be in trouble for this!’’. Ice cream on holiday was the only exception.

Leave anything on your plate.

read Enid Blyton stories. I was allowed to read absolutely anything, but for some reason my mother hated these. I used to borrow them from a friend and smuggle them back.

Watch ITV
Watch soaps,gameshows or Bennie Hill.
Chew bubblegum
Scream unless it was an emergency
Play outside on a Sunday ( we weren't religious,mum just said that people needed their rest).
To help ourselves to food without asking. That was understandable as we were short of money,lived somewhere with no shops,mum didn't drive and could only go shopping once a week. If someone ate the food intended for dinner,there was no way to replace it.
Swear or use slang.

Oh yes.No eating in the street.That was vulgar.

Eat or drink in the street. I still don’t!

Oh, I had forgotten the no playing out on a Sunday. We could play in the garden as long as it was quiet play. When we got older, we could go for a walk or a bike ride on our own but not in a group.

I was never allowed on those high swings at the fair in case the chain snapped ( e could go on the waltzer and rota wheel though!) As a teen, I wasn't allowed to read my Mum's Jilly Cooper books (although I did in secret!) I can understand that one though 🤣

Not allowed to my friends birthday parties or eat any leftover birthday cake at school.
Wasn't allowed to celebrate my own birthday.
Wasn't allowed to watch any movies about magic or witchcraft in case demons came in to my bedroom. It still terrifies me now!

Go on holiday with my friends

Ride a bike 😞

An ex colleague of mine wasn’t allowed to watch ITV - her mother considered it ‘common’. EastEnders was banned for the same reason - such frightfully common people with dreadful accents! 😱

Wow. Was there a religious element there in her parenting?