What did your parents forbid you to do, that you LET your children do?

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• draw pictures in condensation on windows
• skid on the wooden floors
• jump on the beds
• jump in puddles
• slide down banisters

• draw pictures in condensation on windows
• jump on the beds
• jump in puddles
• Run in crunchy leaves (I wasn't allowed incase a dog had pooed in them!)

-have Christmas tree up in early December
-get in our bed at night time (he got in and stayed there for 3 years )

Tortoise dogs always have pooed in them

Luckily not in any my DC and I have run through!

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sleep with people under my roof without getting married first

jump on beds

glood point zippi

I would make sure they got LOTS of sex in before they got married!

-no pets
-no sleeping in their bed

• don't let anyone else see you in your PJ's (odd that one)

-no TV on Sundays

nothing really my parents were pretty reasonable really. the only one rule was no talking in car when dad was driving and since i not yet driving it dont apply to my kids

• jump in puddles - actively encouraged
• be loud in the right environment (my DS & I have volume control issues and are both rather loud)
• stay in PJs at weekend til we go out

zippi - I kinda think I might be a little like that (my Ds is 4 1/2 & dd is 2 1/2) I tried to talk to my mum about going on the pill at nrly 18 and she was so horrified that I did it anyway but in secret
dont want to be like that with my children

northener - odd rules imo

mine - hummm i think i'm probably stricter than my parents were at the moment.

eat peas while turning fork over the wrong way!

drink soup through a straw!

My parents didn't forbid me to do anything and I felt then and do often now that they just didn't care, so a bit of forbidding isn't a bad thing.

that's sad, glass.

I was forbidden to take a packed lunch and had to try to eat disgusting school dinners. Ds is now going to a school that doesn't have a kitchen so I'm facing 14 years of packed lunches. Suddenly my mother's stance on this seems much more reasonable!

Can't think of anything else that was forbidden that I'd change - wouldn't argue with 'not pulling the cat's tail or indeed doing anything horrible to any animal' for instance.

• drink soup through a straw
• draw pictures in condensation on windows
• jump on the beds and sofa's
• jump in puddles
• play with dials on washing machine
• be loud in the right environment

My mother tells me off when she visits and the kids are jumping on the furniture, when I say but it's fun mom, look how they're enjoying themselves she looks at me like I ought to be sectioned! They're only 1 and 3 so I don't know how I'll be when they're teenagers, think I'll be okay with most things as I was a little bit of a wild child myself but I don't think I could bear the sex in the house thing.

Struggling to think of one.

Oh yes. Eat yoghurts for breakfast (as long as they have had cereal first). But think that was more of a financial thing - yoghurts were a treat in the 70s.

That's fairly insignificant, isn't it?

• Lie on sofas (we do all the time so can't really tell my children not to)
• Watch tv on the weekend during the day (although I do limit it)

When he starts to want to I will let ds:

• Mix the colours of playdough/plasticine into one smudgy grey-brown mess
• cut a construct-a-straw straw to allow him to make something other than a circle or a ball with them

Can't think of a single thing - my parents must have been pretty easy going, in fact when I start to get annoyed about stuff like jumping on beds and sofas, I remember how much fun I had doing it as a kid...

The only thing I can think of that is vaguely related was that we always called other adults Mr or Mrs X, not by their first names, which I think would be pretty rare now...