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What your dm never let you do as a child

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crystalglasses · 22/01/2011 12:15

Mine never let us jump on our beds, scribble on walls, go to bed without cleaning our teeth, tell rude jokes, eat meals in front of the TV, leave anything on the dining table, leave our toys in the living room (had to take them up to our rooms every night, invite friends in to play (they might make a mess)). She was a complete neat freak.

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mankyscotslass · 22/01/2011 12:16

Mine never let us have a chip butty.

Eglu · 22/01/2011 12:22

Mine never let me go to school with my hair down. Always had to be tied back.

Was also not allowed to wear jeans or trousers to primary school (no uniform back then). I had yo weaar smart skirts and blouses, even though all my friends wore jeans.

darksideofthemooncup · 22/01/2011 12:28

I was never allowed high heels or a nylon pleated skirt despite pleading with her for both. I resented her hugely at the time but with the benefit of hindsight I am very glad she stuck to her guns.

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bubbleandsqueaks · 22/01/2011 12:34

I was never allowed to shut my bedroom door without her opening it and questioning what I was doing, in actual fact trying to do anything with a bit of privacy was impossible. She even used to ask where I was going when I stood up to go to the toilet, even when I was a teenager Hmm

Fuchzia · 22/01/2011 12:47

No shouting to people out of windows because this was common. No lighting of candles ever ( in a thatched house so can see her point) other than that she was pretty easy going

monkeyflippers · 22/01/2011 13:33

Have friends round Sad

inthesticks · 22/01/2011 16:02

Lots of things I wasn't allowed as they were common, including, comics, watching ITV and eating in the street

rosie1979 · 22/01/2011 16:06

Use the bath as a slide :(

Curlybrunette · 22/01/2011 20:11

My mum wouldn't let us swim for an hour after eating. The only time it ever really came up was when we were on holiday but it was bloody torture. Me and dsis wanted to spend the entire day playing in the pool and the time between breakfast and being allowed in the pool and then lunch and pool time seemed to last forever.

I know it's meant to be something to do with getting cramp but she wouldn't even let us in the baby pools which are only a foot deep or something. It must have just as hard on her with us whinging for an hour as it was for us!!!

Apart from that (which as you can imagine was a horrendous part of my chilhood!) mum was pretty easy going.

sailorsgal · 22/01/2011 20:34

Eat in the street was a big no no. Wasn't allowed to wear makeup or high heels and tampax were only for married ladies. Hmm

taffetasplat · 22/01/2011 20:38

Tap. She never let me learn to tap dance. DD started lessons today. I only realised today how much I wanted to do it. Shall live my life vicariously through her now. Grin

No fried food. No ITV. No bubble gum/chewing gum.

mamasmissionimpossible · 22/01/2011 20:45

No 'Grange Hill', it was common Hmm

Ripeberry · 22/01/2011 20:52

No bicycle until I was 10yrs old. But I was allowed a scooter and go-cart.
Not allowed out when it was dark, so stuck at home in winter.

droves · 22/01/2011 21:01

I wasnt allowed friends over . Surprised i was allowed friends at all actually . ( she would call them all names .bizzare nasty woman who clearly has ishooos ).

We are over-run by the dcs friends , often have 10 children in our house at anyone time ! Grin.

the best sound in the world is hearing them laugh their little socks off.

Summerbird73 · 22/01/2011 21:07

i wasnt allowed to watch Grange Hill, The Young Ones or Eastenders.

But - i WAS allowed to watch Benny Hill and Kenny Everett Hmm

in hindsight she was right about EE! And my older cousin used to record The Young Ones for me (it was the early 80s and i was astounded by this telly recording machine thing!)

poolet · 22/01/2011 21:08

When I was little we lived by the sea and my DM would never let my sister and me go to the beach by ourselves.

We thought she was really mean.

I can understand why now though.

onwardsandupwardsnow · 22/01/2011 21:11

Wasn't allowed to be messy or do messy play. DD is ALWAYS messy Grin

Roo83 · 22/01/2011 23:05

I was very rarely allowed sweets or chocolate and NEVER allowed pick n mix. I now buy myself huge bags of sweets (sometimes spending £5 on a bag) and have a never ending supply of chocolate available in the house.....all of this behind dc's backs!

GreenAmy · 23/01/2011 00:30

I was not allowed to go swimming after eating neither!

My main thing was being dressed in layers and layers of clothing, vest, top, jumper, coat. Even on warm days we would be dressed like for the Arctic. It have to be really hot before we were allowed to leave our coat behind

Mum would go mad if we got a little dirty

All my friends used to kick off their shoes and play on the green but I was not allowed to take my shoes off

Had to wear slippers around the house

Would never be involved if things needed to be bought, furniture for the house, car, holidays.

Not allowed to jump on furniture, talk back, swear, really strict what I could watch on TV (I do not restrict what my DDs watch)

bed time was 9 on school days until I was about 15

OnEdge · 23/01/2011 00:34

fizzy pop ! had to have sugar free squash, and even that was watered down too much Sad

Shitemum · 23/01/2011 00:44

Actually, I can't recall my mother ever stopping me from doing anything.(I was quite a naturally well-behaved child and teenager tho').
Somehow she still managed to instill in us what was the right way to behave. I wonder how she did it?

monkeyflippers · 23/01/2011 09:41

I wasn't allowed to watch Home&Away as my dad didn't like that "Australian crap"

PieMinister · 23/01/2011 09:43

Barbie.

purepurple · 23/01/2011 09:48

I wasn't allowed to have a space hopper.
I am still mentally scarred and had an embarrassing accident at work a while ago, because of it.
I know I am too big for a space hopper now. But it was there and suddenly I was a small child again. So I had a go. Of course I fell off, and landed on my back in front of a group of 3 and 4 year olds and my colleagues. Thanks mum.

Al1son · 23/01/2011 10:03

No ITV
No pop music
No chewing gum
No packed lunches
When I was about 10 and got rubbish at putting my dirty clothes in the laundry bin she made me have the laundry bin in my bedroom FOR A WHOLE YEAR! No reprieve for good behaviour and it meant my younger sister was allowed to walk in and out of my room whenever she wanted to. She took full advantage of this opportunity of course!
Had to eat everything on our plates no matter how long it took.
No extra hot water in the bath.
We were never allowed to walk home from school the other way round the block like all our friends did. Made no sense to me then but I guess she just wanted to know where to look if we didn't turn up.