What was forbidden when you were a child?

[Mirage]

We were not allowed,
Barbie (American!)
Clackers (dangerous)
The Price is Right (vulgar & greedy)
Benny Hill (just vulgar)
In general,ITV was frowned upon.
Platform heels (ruin your feet)
To play in the street on a Sunday,(as people want some peace & quiet).
There are probably loads more,but I can't think of any straight off.

boyfriends
certain sweet esp sherbet
plastercine or playdough
stilts
the list is endless

The Cosby Show (a false representation of how life was for black family's at the time -my dad's words by the way but it was fine for me and brother to scare ourselves shitless watching nightmare on elm street)

ITV (not forbidden, but frowned upon)

and - bizarrely - "That's Life" (which I would sneak downstairs to watch in any case - maybe Cyril Fletcher was too risqué?)

White sliced bread

McDonalds and other such fast foods (we only had chinese take away for a treat, not that i was complaining!)

Patent leather shoes (not practical - still crave them)
Jelly bag (the ones you had to put a carrier bag inside to keep your stuff dry & stop pens falling out - also not practical)
Cubes of jelly in our lunch boxes (my mum just thought this was mad but my friend got them so obv I thought it madly desirable)

I'm sure I was much more deprived than that. My mum was pretty much unbending if she thought something was stupid/impractical no matter how popular it was. I just know I'm going to react against that with ds and he'll have loads of tat

chewing gum (coz if you swallowed it, your insides would get all stuck together )

weebles (after my sister nearly choked on one)

micro chips (even though we went through a loooooooooooooong period of microwave prepared meals, ever had a roast chicken cooked from start to finish in a microwave? boke!)

Wasn't allowed friends in the house to play, my Mum was a clean freak!

nearly choked on a weeble?How?

Chewing/bubble gum (you look like a cow chewing its cud according to my parents).
Eating or drinking in the street
Drinking directly from a can or bottle
Shaker Maker
Mr Frosty
Those cadburys chocolate machines
Monty Python

I'm not sure if it was actually banned, but we never had tomato ketchup! I remember going to my best friends house and she always had it and whenever I asked my mum to get it she never did.

Icecream from the icecream man. ('I'm not buying icecream from him, when there's perfectly good icecream in the freezer!') God, I can hear myself saying it now!!

Mirage - She was only a toddler and she shoved it in her mouth and it got wedged half in half out and cause they are smooth and round my dad couldn't get a firm grip to pull it out.

My little pony

Oh,how scary! Poor little thing.

cabbage patch dolls
Grange Hill
Anything magical
Sugar & Tomato Sauce sandwiches (not sure I'd want them anyway!!)

yeah it was, but still remember being quite miffed to see the weebles go in the bin!

flippin eck Tucker! You weren't allow Grange Hill

Yeah mum said it mad kids rude!!! now says that it's grange hill that has caused todays kids to treat teachers so bad! God better stop dd watching Tracy Breaker don't want gran kids like her lol

Barbie/Sindy
ITV most of the time
Saturday morning kids' TV
Grange Hill
Programmes with pop music in (my mother denies this now, but it's TRUE)
Round 'Kojak' style lollipops
Gobstoppers
Chewing/bubble gum

I was the eldest, though... they got more lax with successive children until my sister could do pretty much what she liked.

lemonaid
bloody hell want did you watch and play with?

I was never allowed to have the latest fashion clothes coz mum could make them just as well! Yeh right! - I had a pair of jeans with write piping sewn on (badly) and the best one was a mini-kilt which looked like a lampshade coz she had just cut a long one down! My friend still reminds me of that one now and I'm 39! Oh the shame!

i feel sorry for you all, the joys of having a very young Mum...Nothing was banned!