These parents are stunting their kids social growth. They need to learn to handle small mistakes early in life so that they are prepared to be responsible adults.
I second that. I was never allowed to go out on my own as a kid (in fact my mom would terrorise me with kidnappers stories so I wouldn't go out), and nobody ever had the energy to go out with me. I have no siblings, I wasn't allowed to go to friends' houses nor have them come over; my parents worked out all day and my grandma slept the whole evening. The only social interactions I would have all day were during 4 hours of classes in the morning (which I was quite bullied a lot of the time. During elementary school I was bullied even by the teachers), and some greetings and small talk at night. As a result of that, I have bad social anxiety, I have 0 social skills, I'm very socially awkward, have almost no friends and honestly 0 clue how to actually maintain a relationship with friends. Seriously, don't coddle your kids, let them do things and grow. Besides, if they want to talk to you, talk to them; if they want to go out, go with them; if they're coming to you it means they trust you and that they care about you, and how you react to that will make a difference on how they treat you when they're older.
You know some of these I would like to be classified as neglect or abuse. Isolating your kids from normal every day activities and instances? That sort of thing causes all sorts of psychological damage later in life. Or even in the moment, when kids are trying to find their way in the world. I can appreciate wanting to protect your kids from negative media, which definitely exists (hint: it's not rock music). But some of these parents legitimately sound like they have some sort of disorder. Not hating, I have plenty of those. But honestly...how can a person in their right mind believe that witchcraft and shit is real because of a fantasy tv show?
I can attest that this is 100% true. My parents raised me in a SUPER Conservative Christian (and very Republican) home and were so strict and confining. I wasn't allowed to go out and spend weekends with my friends because that was family time. My parents tried to dictate what I could watch or listen to. I got very good at hiding my very mild anime and Jpop. I'm 27 and my mom still will not let me out of the house after dark without some serious fight on my part. It has had some major effects on my self-confidence and learning to be independent. It also severely damaged my ability to trust and open up to people. Not sure if I would go all the way to abuse, but it's all definitely unhealthy and very debilitating. It's only by the Grace of God and the wonderful friends He's given me that I'm as stable and independent as I am now.
@@xenonsan3110 I'm vaguely familiar with that I think because my parents were completely against the idea of D&D. I have no idea why. My parents were SO weird when I was growing up. I'm so glad they didn't buy into the "satanic rock'n'roll" thing otherwise my music taste growing would've been severely limited.
My parents have gotten a lot better but when I was growing up I think their most absurd rule was that my sister and I couldn’t watch Dragon Tales because dragons are demonic symbols. Note we grew up on Star Wars, LOTR, and Narnia but apparently the PBS Kids show Dragon Tales was too much
Sounds like my parents. We could watch Sabrina the Teenage Witch but HalloweenTown and Harry Potter were not to even be mentioned in our house, much less watched/read.
my mom literally got mad at me because I needed to read a book over break so I chose "The Wish Giver" and she yelled at me because "We shouldn't be dealing with wishes!!"
I saw lotr at the age of 4 Narnia at 6(that's when we bought the movies to bing watch) and walked in on the walking dead at 5. yeah my family is quite open with the real world thankfully and I do feel horrible for people who are sheltered as it dosnt allow them to find the things they may really like.
For those whose parents only let them watch movies that are no higher than PG, get them to watch Watership Down. It's a cute, G-rated movie about bunnies finding a new home.
"Only listen to Disney music as everything else will make you violent"/"He joined one of the biggest biker clubs". Soo.... He listened to "Make a man out of you", "Let's get down to business" and Guston's boasting song on repeat, I take it?
girl at my school wasnt allowed to go to any Halloween parties and her parents tried to make everybody else have... "light parties" instead. anyway, she married a guy she'd been dating for three months aged 19.
Was she mormon? I knew some mormon girls who were courted & married off in like 6 months after graduation & some have 2 kids now. We graduated 3 years ago.
I have an antie who give us a hall hour PowerPoint presentation on why we should not celebrate hallowen because is the day where the spirit take over your body. Is been 10 Years since I have step in her house from that day on.
Yep, I grew up in a household with a lot of these rules Another one you can add is mother denying mental health needs and being told that I just need to "pray more" and my severe anxiety and depression would just magically go away (not allowed to take meds or go to therapy)
8:21 As someone who actually did have separation anxiety as a child, I *get what they were going for* , but they just screwed it up. I had an extreme case of separation anxiety, so I slept in the same bed as my mother until the age of 11, because *I asked for it.* I could not sleep without someone watching I wouldn't get killed. It *can* give a sense of security and peace, if your child actually has separation anxiety. Moral of the story: If your child *can't sleep/is afraid to sleep and COMES to you for help,* let them. If they *don't need it, do NOT force them.*
My mom: shames me for not being able to cook since i was 8 years or even younger (idk) and would also compare me to herself saying “when i was 5 or 6 i would make meals for my whole family and you can’t even make lunch?” Also my mom: doesn’t let me stay afterschool for anything (extra help, tests, speech or debate, sports are a no go) because she believes that i will get involved with the wrong “crowd”. Mind you I've been cleaning since i was three at this point. I would get a chair from the dining room stand on it and wash the dishes. I remember i threw my older brother’s (12-13y/o) new iPod touch that he left on the kitchen counter in to the sink (filled with water), acted like I didn’t see anything and just walked away. I was salty because she never made him clean anything and would ask me to clean up after him. It was futile because she replaced it with a new one that weekend. Just recently she took my old iPhone 7 plus that my older sister broke on purpose and told me she was going to fix it for me. I wanted to make it a personal project but she demanded it. Today my older brother who is in his mid 20’s came in with my old newly fixed phone with my case. When i asked her about it she said she sold it when he had it in plain view. He just smiled. Mind you she didn’t even buy it. Idk how but this just turned in to me ranting about my mom
Yeah, well its good if it starts to come out. Let others get enraged by the shit that your mom did. I would have at that point started rebelling against her and make her do stuff instead of you. Or just plain take the punishment and still stay after school. Then when you turn 18, tell her that she ain't got any power on you anymore, so you make your own rules. Obviously to break those too.
Best of luck in getting out of your Narc mom's house safely and with your sanity in a repairable state. Keep your chin up, and don't let her ego cravings tie you down for good.
If I was a parent I’d encourage my kids to be social and watch shows and explore music taste.. damn these parents. I also won’t force religion onto them and let them choose what they want to believe, teach them about respecting nature, being friendly, earning respect, not letting people get the best of you. And I’d definitely teach them how to survive in the wilderness. Wilderness survival is a skill too many lack, and it always comes in handy. You never know what’s gonna happen, it’s better to always know how to live in different situations. And damn, I would teach them to not hate snakes and reptiles. They’re beautiful creatures that deserve better. I could be a bit harsh at times as a parent, but if I ever do get kids (most likely not) I’ll raise them to be survivors. I’ll give them the love and care they need, the discipline they need, and the support and courage they need.
I worked as a paraprofessional at a preschool for 6 years. We had one young boy who was short and particularly clumsy, so he constantly tripped and subsequently hurt himself just by walking. This boy, like most playful children, often had bruises and bandaids both from school and home. Well, one day we had a sudden meeting with his irate father about how we weren't watching his son well enough and "allowing him to fall". He then stated that he doesn't want his child running around on the playground anymore. So we had to agree to this request 🤦🏽♀️. Yep. The little 4 year old boy was no longer allowed to run around and on the playground with his friends. It was so sad reinforcing this with him. We played with a lot of chalk and he had plenty of pushes on the swing set, but still...poor kid. Also, please don't send your children to school with "nicer" clothes and expect them to come home in perfect condition, including expensive jewelry. We can only put an oversized shirt on your lil one when they paint or play in the water table, but your lil charmer is one of several we have to watch. At the end of the day teachers don't give a crap if your boy's Nikes got stained because he stepped in dirt...outside...
You know, that’s actually true. We had a such a neighbor. Her kid and I once played a game were we grab stick and chant nonsense at each other like wizards(mind you just a fricking game). His mom saw us and called my parents and even the cops.
My mom doesn’t let me go outside alone even around our quite innocent little neighborhood! Not even the garage or backyard is allowed because her reason is “I’m a girl”.same with my sister >:/ also no cooking,cutting (even no microwave!!)
Many years ago when my daughter was in primary school, one of the other mothers tried to convince me that drinking water " rots ya guts" .... She would never give her son water to drink because her aunt drank water and her guts got all rotted out.. Yep seriously i know wtf
Lemmie guess, either wherever the Aunt lived had very poor-quality drinking water, or the mother was one of those whackjobs who belived those BS conspiracies about water floridation?
7:45 This is the cause of separation anxiety. Sure they will be upset for the first couple days but if they get used to staying with their parents for years it's gonna be a lot harder when they're like 10 and they try to leave them
I wasn’t allowed to say “just saying” or “my bad” because it shows (I quote) “the disrespect that I have for those around me and if I ever say those words ever again my dog will be taken away”
I never participated in extracurricular activities (also known as afterschool activities), not because I wasn't allowed to- nobody would even be bothered by that- but because I personally had zero interest in them
Meanwhile: [My primary school teacher, while the class was on a field trip to the local fair, calling my parents]: excuse me, are you aware that your child wants to buy a sword? [My parents]: ye [Teacher]: no like, an actual sword [My parents]: ye [Teacher]: no an actual metal sword with a sharp blade [My parents]: ye [Teacher]: arent you afraid that he could hurt someone or himself? [My parents]: nah I still have that sword
2:00 I worked at a mini golf play/entertainment centre, where we were expected to play little games with the players on the course. One of mine was getting people to name Disney villains. One parent looked at me disdainfully and said "We don't let our children watch those movies." I could not fathom what was left if DISNEY was inappropriate.
Trying to watch something with kids from super-christian families that don't allow their kids to watch TV or go to the movies is probably the most frustrating way to watch anything. Because of not being exposed to cinematic storytelling they're simply unable to follow the plot, are constantly confused and keep asking over and over again why the characters did literally anything even when it's blatantly obvious simply because it wasn't expressly explained by a narrator.
I’m not allowed tot all to anyone online, even my school friends who I talk to, even in teens Can’t go to friends house even in teens These are my parents oh
I live in Minnesota and the word “crap” is said by literally everyone but one of my friends parents yelled at me once for cussing and I was so confused. My saint of a mother said it all the time so I was shocked at her outrage. Oh and the word fart was also a no no.
10:40 sounds like somebody was wearing a lovely ankle bracelet supplied by the state and managed to convince some fool it was his parents being strict. Lmao
I have a friend who's only allowed to go out if there's an event at our community firehouse. (We live in a really rural area) Him and his brothers and sisters have to live under super strict rules. Basically, their parents didn't let them talk to people (or really have friends in general) no leaving the house, (they have security locks on the doors) and pretty harsh punishments if you ask me. (Mind you, he's 16) Tbh I think those parents are restricting their children from the outside world and seriously slowing their social growth. I haven't seen him in months because his mom found out he was talking to me, a (uh oh) *female.* I really, really wish some parents would just figure out that so many rules are actually damaging their children and not helping them. A little sheltering is fine, and I understand if people don't want their kids around certain negative media, that's totally fine. Its just when they shield their children from literally *everything* does it become damaging, stunting their growth as people. TL;DR: Guide your kids through life, don't hide them from it
One time I was watching Girl Scouts play on the playground (I was a helper and I was watching the kids outside so leaders could prepare a craft inside.) Several girls had their GS shirts on, so most people knew what was going on/knew who those girls were with. It was a community playground as well, so anyone could be there. This mom SCREAMED at her child to get over there. Mom starts cursing at her EIGHT YEAR OLD DAUGHTER telling her that she isn't allowed to play with Girl Scouts because GS supports PP and support killing babies. (This family had a ton of younger kids too, even 2 babies in car seats. All the adults in that family were smoking cigarettes.) This mom was screaming at her daughter the entire time and was still pissed as she left with her family.... Like, anyway, how was this girl supposed to know? From how she was screaming, it seemed like this girl had no idea what the hell was going on. I feel so bad for the kids, especially for having a mom like that.
I banned Rugrats because of the way the characters spoke. I was teaching at the time, and I was floored by the number of children whose speech patterns imitated those of the Rugrats, and who needed years of speech therapy to train it out of them..
a close friend was given a ten mile radius from her home to look for colleges. that left her with three schools. *one* of which had a good program in her major.
Wasn’t allowed to watch Fairly Odd Parents on Nick because my mom “didn’t like how it portrayed the mom and dad as dumb”. But no, I was allowed to watch Danny Phantom?? Which portrayed the parents as dumb??
Leader at a youth club I volunteer at (was a member at the time, am a leader now) banned the words "cheater", "liar", "loser" (and all variations like "cheat", "lying", "lost", etc.) (they were as bad in her eyes as "f***" or "c***" to most people. Origin behind this was, one of the members was simultaneously a sore loser and a sore winner, he called people "cheater" if they beat him at games, called the "loser" if he won and they lost, called people "liar" if they disagreed with him or said something he didn't like. But none of us were allowed say any form of the words "cheat", "lie" or "lose" even if someone genuinely was cheating or lying or whatever! And how are you meant to learn "you can't win all the time" if the word "lose" is banned?!), ditto for fake curses like "shut the front door!" and "grasshole". And Joe used to always accuse people of swearing ("You said a bad word!"), whether they actually swear (or "swear"), make a sound effect, say nothing at all, or even if Joe is the one who says a bad word and he pins the blame on someone else! As well as this, my friend, Mark, beat Joe (Cheater Liar Loser Guy) at a game of dice (we did this to determine who got the first turn on the Playstation), Joe accused the leader of cheating with the dice, and she believed him and made the two roll again, Mark lost and he's still mad about it to this day (it was about 13 years ago, so I was 10, Mark was 7 and Joe was 11) This leader also basically banned all forms of negativity or anything that's "not nice" (what about when we enter the real world and hear "no", "never", "not" and other negative terms all the time, and even use them to prevent things we don't want? And being "not nice" means nothing, earthquakes, car crashes and cancer definitely aren't nice but they still happen!), and wouldn't let us swim in the deep end of the swimming pool even though the water was only 5ft deep there (I was above 5 feet at the time, and Joe, who was always very tall, was able to stand in the deep end, feet flat on the ground, and have his whole head above the water! We were young at the time, so some people were short and/or weak swimmers, but even the tall people like myself and Joe couldn't go into the deep end!). And then there was the time I got in trouble for saying "I don't want to be friends with you" to an annoying guy who kept pestering me and was made to apologize (what exactly am I meant to do, suddenly start liking him?), and myself and Joe got told "they are your friends" about two members we didn't like even though we insisted they weren't (are people not even allowed to dislike others anymore?) And of course, the infamous cow incident, where Mark was holding a toy cow in his hand, he lost his grip on it and it fell, the leader accused him of throwing it, wouldn't listen to him explaining himself, and Mark went mental because he got frustrated trying to explain but getting nowhere, got in trouble for "not listening" and got sent home early and banned from the club for a week (he was the only person this ever happened to, EVEN THOUGH Joe often did worse things, in addition to his Cheater Liar Loser ways, he always ran off from the group (one time we were at the zoo and I couldn't see any of the animals because Joe kept running off and I had to go and get him back), which would normally give you an instant black spot (normally you get a warning first, and two black spots get you sent home, like Mark in the above story), and messed around. And one of the other guys used to swear (now I mean actually swearing like F-bombs and S-bombs, he often said "f*** you!" (even funnier with his accent, which made it sound like he said "fock", to rhyme with "rock") to the leader when things didn't go his way) I have another story about Joe, not related to overprotection, but funny anyway, in the sign in book, we have numbered lines, with "Date: [today's date]" written above number 1, and Joe always wrote his name above the date! And as a joke, I used to write Joe's name up the top with my left hand (Joe has bad handwriting, even with what I assume is his good hand, and I'm right-handed, so I used my left hand to mimic his writing (which is probably even worse than my left-handed writing!))
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 She ultimately left after a few years (idk if she quit or was fired though, she's been gone so long (several years) I'm the only remaining person who knew her) and the problem is now long gone (and my friends from the old days of club appear to be ok for the most part. Mark and I turned out fine, Joe became apathetic and withdrawn, basically a complete 180 of how he used to be (though idk that started after that leader left or not), but other than him, everyone else I knew and have seen since has turned out fine) But I totally agree, if that had continued, we'd probably all end up as spoiled brats who freak out at the word "no" and can't deal with rejection or any sort of tragedy
Giulia ._. My mother used to teach me how to float in the bath and trust the water, later helped me learn how to swim and then enrolled me in a swimming club. Also really keen on reading to the extent that I really cannot recall not being able to read myself. Always had me 'help' with the baking showing me how to, even though my main contribution was sampling the raw mix. Made sure I knew how to use an encyclopedia/dictionary (no internet/web in those days).
The most annoying thing that happened was, they banned me from watching undertale and also scary games tbh- Undertale is one of my favorite games that i always wanted to play, but i can't. Worst shit? I can't go out on my own too. I wish to have the freedom to finally go out. But my parent's won't let me. Man this is making me cry.
My friend isn’t allowed to watch anime. Not even for the obvious reasons, the stepmom really just hated that it was in Japanese and dubs weren’t acceptable either. Also, my parents were absolutely insane about cursing.
My mom gets super peeved if I say anything like "frick", "crap", or "son of a motherless goat." She gets just as mad about alternate swear words as actual swearing. What the heck am I allowed to say then? I'm a Christian too but some people are just way too over the top.
Summer camp mom sounds like my mother. A kids she’d lose her mind when I or my siblings use words like stupid, suck, shut up. This coming from the woman who used “Jesus Christ” and “goddamn it” several times a day. She would tell us to “stifle” rather than “be quiet” like a normal person. My brother bought a Nirvana CD. We were listening to it on her stereo, which was a bold move on his part. Mom didn’t say anything though. It gets to “Rape me” and I’m surprised she still hasn’t said a word. Finally at the end when Cobain screams “rape me” six times in a row mom asks inquisitively “what’s he saying?” My brother and I look at one another and he said “rape... me”. Mom didn’t so much scream as she, with both hands on the steering wheel did a full body head bang movement while gutterally screeching “DEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIL MUUUUUUUUUSIIIIIC” She’s not even religious. Although she puts on airs that she is. I could go on.
I once knew a family where the parents would not buy their daughter head phones for music playing devices (music playing devices would include radio, computer, MP3 player etc.) not because they did not want to spoil her, but because they (the parents) wanted to be able to listen to all music that the daughter was listening to.
Growing up in the UK in the mid 80s/90s, I was never allowed to watch the Simpson's. Mum said it was "anti-authority and set a bad example. Just because it's a cartoon does not mean it's suitable for children". Having watched loads of it as adult I found she was not wrong. lol 😂
One time this lady came through my line at work, I'm a cashier. I started talking to her about what video games her kids like and they liked Mine Craft, I think the kids were in the 6-10 range. I said something about how I'm surprised her kids still like Mine Craft, I would think they would be into Fort Nite. She said to me what's that? and I told her it's like a shooter battle royal game. She looked at me and said "Shooter? Like with guns? We dont allow games with guns in our house." I thought to myself that Fort Nite is the most G-rated shooter ever made lol
I didn’t have strict parents but I had a friend who had a WEIRD FAMILY. Like seriously their family baby sitter me when I was in 4th grade, and they would make all three children sleep in one room. 3rd grade, 5 grade, 7 grade. The 7 grade was had autism and I SWEAR the parents raised their other kids like they had autism. They all had to get dressed downstairs in the living room. One time I went to the waterpark with the 5 grader, and he was scared to go on the smallest rides. Their parents were overprotective: helmets, pg movies etc. The dad though, was a little weird. So me being a 4th grader and saying stupid stuff, said to the other 4th grader “I’m gonna rip your Pokémon card” and all of a sudden his Dad comes in and starts cussing me out. Not allowed to watch MANDALORIAN or wear “scary” hawloween costumes. Couldn’t watch or SPEAK of spongebob. Only watch CARTOON NETWORK. Not allowed to have personal electronics other than the 7 grader who got a IPOD. Moved in 5th grade and still wonder about that family
My parents didn’t even know what parental restriction on mobile devices was, I’ve watched a bunch of crap and other things, yet I’ve turned into an almost straight A’s student they would rather stay home than go to parties. Putting restrictions is like putting up a sign that says forbidden fruit. if you just let kids figure out themselves and “explain” why they’re not allowed to do certain things, then they’re gonna be functioning adults that know how to solve problems and stand up to their bad decisions.
1:20 the word “stupid” considered as profanity. That’s basically my 7th grade math teacher. Lady didn’t allow you to say anything, no crap, stupid, darn, dang, shoot, frick, or anything like that. She ABSOLUTELY DESPISED stuff like that, even to where she corrected you in front of the entire class and tell you not to do that. She didn’t even let her 5 year old daughter watch PJ masks, because of “violence”. What’s better yet, is she called my friend stupid. She wasn’t even a good teacher, our class all the time says crap about her and how she acted towards us. Thank god she isn’t our teacher anymore, worse 8 months of my life
Some parent at my school in fifth grade wouldn’t allow to play finding Nemo for whatever reason so we ended up watching a movie where a dog dies instead. !???!?!?!? Like come on
Look, I get parents not wanting to expose their children to possibly dangerous things like burning themselves on the stove or going out alone but it will be a lot harder for the kid when they go off to college or out into the real world and they don't know how to cook and have never been outside alone. It will also be mentally damaging when they're kids and they see all their friends off having fun doing things that they can't
Agreed, I hear my friends talking about going to places without their parents, and I honestly feel so jealous and annoyed, but at least I can access things like the stove or microwave
My mother was so overprotective of my younger brother that she usually needed to hold him by the hand. Once, at church, he wanted to go play with the other boys. She was clearly heard to call out "Don't run, you might fall and hurt yourself!" He was 12. Yep.
Those Christian parents know that All Hallow's Eve was a Christian tradition before Halloween became the modern thing right? You dressed as a monster/spirit to confuse daemons...
The pentagram was also a religious symbol too. Its only demonic when you turn the top tip (pointing towards heaven) down (pointing towards hell). Similar to turning a cross upside down
OMFG the Wall-E one is literally my mom. Apparently it's "leftist propaganda to indoctrinate kids into believing in global warming." I couldn't tell you how true that is considering I've still never seen that movie. Also, when she found out we were learning about global warming in 4th or 5th grade, she made me write "Global warming is a hoax" on my homework and then called the teacher to complain when it was marked wrong.
Well now I feel kinda guilty 😅 I'm 23 and when I'm in a high-traffic area, I like to hold hands with whoever I'm walking with. Probably stems from the fact that I'm the big sister 😏 so my siblings would often hold my hand. I just wanna make sure we all get across safe 😖
I was 7 when I started reading Harry Potter and started talking about it with a friend at her house. Her mom suddenly started chastising me for talking about Satanic stuff. I guess she thought wizards, witches and magic were of the devil. At one point she says something like: "Just because you worship the devil and are going to hell doesn't mean you need to drag everyone else with you. You can still come over and be *friend's* friend, but you can't talk about that stuff. Being here may be the only chance you have of going to heaven." I was and am Christian, and she was supposed to know that. And even if that is what you thought about Harry Potter, why would you say that to a 7 year old?
And here I thought my mother is controlling because she wouldn't allow me to cook some things when I was ten and alone at home. (Boiling eggs, making tea, sandwiches and other easy things were allowed, but mention stuff like making soup, scrambled eggs, etc while alone and her hair turned fifty shades of grey)
Having raised many children, I have to agree with those parents. Calling something boring is usually a kid's way of insulting someone who planned an activity for them and can be quite hurtful. Also, few things annoy me more than a kid complaining about being bored while I am busy cooking, cleaning and earning money to support them. Complaining about being bored was a sure fire way of landing yourself a bunch of new chores in my house.
All of my friends are guys. My mom perfectly understood. Considering she had only guys friends. She was allowed to spend the night with her guys friends. My grandmother let her do that. My grandmother has her views of life on every little thing. It still baffles me to this day that my mom got to do that. My mom believes it makes no since to bring up stuff to kids and tell them not to do stuff, most of the time, then it makes them think about it and possibly then they'd want to do it. Like how if I wanted any piercings as a young teen she'd take me. She would let me know that she'd let me do stuff not say not to do things.
8:20 They already did it twice. What do you expect them to do, be addicts ?? To be honest any woman who wants to sleep with their kids in the same bed after like 2 or 3y/o.... Lets just say he is likely using the children as a crazy shield.
This was about 2 months ago. I had sprained my ankle pretty badly and had crutches and a splint for my ankle, and could get around with some ease. My mom didn’t let me go anywhere outside of the house in case I hurt myself even more. This was at the point that I could put my body weight on my foot and walk with a slight limp, but the crutches helped. I wanted to go to a little corner store to pick up some milk for tea (yes I live in England) and some biscuits for the tea. The shop was not far from where I live. That was unacceptable. I also have really strict internet control over a lot of things like games and videos. I’m really glad I found out about VPNS. Edit: 7:45. Not exactly a lie. It doesn’t slow down digestion but makes is harder to do, since it dilutes the acid that your stomach is making. It won’t cause cancer but can be a factor that may potentially cause mild constipation. Nothing too bad just a bit harder to take a shit. Source: I get this when I drink water while eating food. So does my family and most of my friends. I just stay hydrated before eating and only drink during when the food is really sour or spicy or sweet or bitter or salty.
the one at 4:32 is understandable; in fact my parents also had that rule when i was young, and while they are still stern about the rule they have been more lenient with it now that i’m older (as in, i can carpool if i were in need of doing so, rather than not at all).
These are creepy! The one about the crazy mom not permitting the word "stupid" or anything negative was weird. Imagine trying to engineer a world in which no one is allowed to say/express anything negative. It would be a good science fiction story.
One of my friend’s mom told him he couldn’t hang out with me (we’re both guys) because my hair is too long. It doesn’t even hang off of my head, it’s maybe 5-7 inches at most
I wasn’t allowed to hang out with kids who had divorced parents when I was younger. Also couldn’t watch phineas and ferb until I moved out. My mom had to approve the books I read and the songs I listened to until I was 17. They also had a special engraved paddle to spank me with, but they did it with love so it was “ok”. My dad grounded me and yelled at me for 3 days straight because my car quit shifting gears on my way home one night. He didn’t believe me and tried to sell my car where it promptly broke down and he had to push it half a mile back home. Never apologized and still sold it. My parents still track my every location and say they will cut me out of their lives if I refuse. I’m still weighing the pros and cons of that one
Bf was cutting potato's and his dad walked in and said "use my hands faster dammit" and bf said "you mean my hands?" And his dad goes "no MY hands, until you move out I have not given you permission to call those hands yours, they're MY hands"
0:57 reminds me of the time I was with my cousins who are a few years younger than me. We were playing and one of them said something and I just kinda laughed and said it was stupid, one of the younger ones looked and at me all shocked and said "You said the 's' word!" Apparently, they weren't allowed to say "stupid", I think it was a school thing. When they weren't in earshot, my older sister whispered to me, "That's not the 's' word we grew up with!" Also, these incredibly strict Christian parents make me cringe since I am a Christian. I know for a fact that if try to shelter your kids from those things regardless of if you're a Christian or not, they're just going to find a way to get it somehow. For instance, if a kid's Christian parent said they aren't allowed to read Harry Potter, they'll just find the audio books on UA-cam or Spotify. I know because I did.
I had a parent remove their child from scouting because they saw the scout leader, at the end of the meeting while the kids were allowed time to socialize before pick up, smoking on the furthest part of the parking lot away from all the children.
Okay for those who don't know this about JRR Tolkien he was very religious and if that Mom actually read the silmarillion or any of his other books she would understand that but he just didn't want to talk to her child for the rest of her life and if you haven't read the silmarillion read it it's great
My mom banned me from watching Scooby Doo. It wasn't because she had any moral objection to Scooby Doo - she just despised it and didn't want to hear Scooby Doo at all.
The Christians putting down Halloween really irks me! I used to watch The 700 Club. Whenever Pat Robertson would go on his rant about Halloween being The Day of Satan I'd just roll my eyes and say, "Oh please!" There was even one segment that he suggested an alternative celebration at the church that sounds like he is stuck in the 1950s!
My mother recently had another child. And she isn't letting my sister do normal things like walk on concrete/normal sidewalks, let alone run because she's sure my sister isn't capable of being aware of her own feet. My sister is sure gonna have some damn problems with believing in her own ability to do things...
Was there a problem with the birth? A friend of mine’s baby had the cord around his neck at birth (he’s fine but she freaked out). She’s super protective of him to the point it sometimes hinders him.
These parents are stunting their kids social growth. They need to learn to handle small mistakes early in life so that they are prepared to be responsible adults.
Yeah...
They probably won't stop till the suicide attempts start.
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@@shimmi285 hey :)
I second that. I was never allowed to go out on my own as a kid (in fact my mom would terrorise me with kidnappers stories so I wouldn't go out), and nobody ever had the energy to go out with me.
I have no siblings, I wasn't allowed to go to friends' houses nor have them come over; my parents worked out all day and my grandma slept the whole evening. The only social interactions I would have all day were during 4 hours of classes in the morning (which I was quite bullied a lot of the time. During elementary school I was bullied even by the teachers), and some greetings and small talk at night.
As a result of that, I have bad social anxiety, I have 0 social skills, I'm very socially awkward, have almost no friends and honestly 0 clue how to actually maintain a relationship with friends.
Seriously, don't coddle your kids, let them do things and grow. Besides, if they want to talk to you, talk to them; if they want to go out, go with them; if they're coming to you it means they trust you and that they care about you, and how you react to that will make a difference on how they treat you when they're older.
Imagine withholding and stunting a child's personal happiness, and life experiences solely for parental pride and beliefs... Oh wait.
You know some of these I would like to be classified as neglect or abuse. Isolating your kids from normal every day activities and instances? That sort of thing causes all sorts of psychological damage later in life. Or even in the moment, when kids are trying to find their way in the world.
I can appreciate wanting to protect your kids from negative media, which definitely exists (hint: it's not rock music). But some of these parents legitimately sound like they have some sort of disorder. Not hating, I have plenty of those. But honestly...how can a person in their right mind believe that witchcraft and shit is real because of a fantasy tv show?
I can attest that this is 100% true. My parents raised me in a SUPER Conservative Christian (and very Republican) home and were so strict and confining. I wasn't allowed to go out and spend weekends with my friends because that was family time. My parents tried to dictate what I could watch or listen to. I got very good at hiding my very mild anime and Jpop. I'm 27 and my mom still will not let me out of the house after dark without some serious fight on my part. It has had some major effects on my self-confidence and learning to be independent. It also severely damaged my ability to trust and open up to people. Not sure if I would go all the way to abuse, but it's all definitely unhealthy and very debilitating. It's only by the Grace of God and the wonderful friends He's given me that I'm as stable and independent as I am now.
If you think thats insane look up the satanic panic of the 1980s and D&D. Or, more specifically, the infamous chick track "dark dungeons"
@@xenonsan3110 I'm vaguely familiar with that I think because my parents were completely against the idea of D&D. I have no idea why. My parents were SO weird when I was growing up. I'm so glad they didn't buy into the "satanic rock'n'roll" thing otherwise my music taste growing would've been severely limited.
Honey Bär-Guillard they probably watch ghost hunters
The psychological damage part is something that I definitely agree with and there is no doubt about it either and I would know from experience
My parents have gotten a lot better but when I was growing up I think their most absurd rule was that my sister and I couldn’t watch Dragon Tales because dragons are demonic symbols. Note we grew up on Star Wars, LOTR, and Narnia but apparently the PBS Kids show Dragon Tales was too much
Wtf 😂😂😂
Sounds like my parents. We could watch Sabrina the Teenage Witch but HalloweenTown and Harry Potter were not to even be mentioned in our house, much less watched/read.
my mom literally got mad at me because I needed to read a book over break so I chose "The Wish Giver" and she yelled at me because "We shouldn't be dealing with wishes!!"
@@Twonkae That's crazy. I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that.
I saw lotr at the age of 4 Narnia at 6(that's when we bought the movies to bing watch) and walked in on the walking dead at 5. yeah my family is quite open with the real world thankfully and I do feel horrible for people who are sheltered as it dosnt allow them to find the things they may really like.
Us: "Fiancée."
Text-To-Speech Voice, an intellectual: "Fiankay."
Us: "Chi"
Text-To-Speech voice, an intellectual: "Kai"
I have seen so many of these videos and I heard this in the voice
@@glichking6812 to be fair, if you're speaking Greek, that actually IS how you pronounce "chi"
Hehehehe
I had a friend who wasn’t allowed to say someone told a lie. She had to say someone was “telling stories”.
Telling stories can mean telling true stories. That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
For those whose parents only let them watch movies that are no higher than PG, get them to watch Watership Down. It's a cute, G-rated movie about bunnies finding a new home.
*accidenntly puts on the Human Centipede 2*
@@icywolf9923 probably less traumatic
I watched it by accident at age 7 and had nightmares for months ... safe to say I’m not watching THAT again
😦......
And a lot of DEATH!!!
But then again...
IT'S FROM THE BRIIIIIIIITIIIIIISH
These kids are gonna rebel in the biggest way, if they haven’t already.
"Only listen to Disney music as everything else will make you violent"/"He joined one of the biggest biker clubs".
Soo.... He listened to "Make a man out of you", "Let's get down to business" and Guston's boasting song on repeat, I take it?
That's what I do.
I was scrolling through the comments and this made me laugh. I don’t laugh a lot
What about Hellfire? Be Prepared? Friends on the Other Side?
girl at my school wasnt allowed to go to any Halloween parties and her parents tried to make everybody else have... "light parties" instead. anyway, she married a guy she'd been dating for three months aged 19.
Oh wow. Halloween parties are the best! Who wants to go to a "light party"? I feel so bad for her
She sounds mormon, Jehovah's Witness, or some fundamentalist Christianianity. They get married really young and really quickly (generally speaking)
Was she mormon? I knew some mormon girls who were courted & married off in like 6 months after graduation & some have 2 kids now. We graduated 3 years ago.
I have an antie who give us a hall hour PowerPoint presentation on why we should not celebrate hallowen because is the day where the spirit take over your body. Is been 10 Years since I have step in her house from that day on.
@@breonawarren1507 i don't think she was mormon (not a lot of it in the uk) but she was definitely some kind of Very Christian
Yep, I grew up in a household with a lot of these rules
Another one you can add is mother denying mental health needs and being told that I just need to "pray more" and my severe anxiety and depression would just magically go away (not allowed to take meds or go to therapy)
Yep, this is me haha
That's bullshit
I feel bad for anyone who wasn't allowed to experience the fantasy genre as a kid. I don't know what I'd do without dragons.
I'm actually reading a fantasy series by TUI. T. Sutherland that also revolves around many different types of dragons and some magic too.
I'm such a big lotr nerd, if I didnt have it a large chunk of my life would be ?
AzureSpeed wings of fire :D
@@catzplaymc9003 haha
My mom gave me a clean rash as an infant. The Dr. prescribed her "let her play in dirt. DIRT."
What was the reaction?
It’s spelled absurd
Clams Noted. And dully ignored.
But not with any malice
MrBanditguy epic
Posibly but problaly not thoh you shuld chech the dictionary or thesaurus
It’s like they just pressed the suggested words over and over
Shut up
8:21 As someone who actually did have separation anxiety as a child, I *get what they were going for* , but they just screwed it up. I had an extreme case of separation anxiety, so I slept in the same bed as my mother until the age of 11, because *I asked for it.* I could not sleep without someone watching I wouldn't get killed. It *can* give a sense of security and peace, if your child actually has separation anxiety.
Moral of the story: If your child *can't sleep/is afraid to sleep and COMES to you for help,* let them. If they *don't need it, do NOT force them.*
I was about 11/12 when I stopped sleeping in my parents bed.. I get it. But that should be the child’s choice
My mom: shames me for not being able to cook since i was 8 years or even younger (idk) and would also compare me to herself saying “when i was 5 or 6 i would make meals for my whole family and you can’t even make lunch?”
Also my mom: doesn’t let me stay afterschool for anything (extra help, tests, speech or debate, sports are a no go) because she believes that i will get involved with the wrong “crowd”.
Mind you I've been cleaning since i was three at this point. I would get a chair from the dining room stand on it and wash the dishes. I remember i threw my older brother’s (12-13y/o) new iPod touch that he left on the kitchen counter in to the sink (filled with water), acted like I didn’t see anything and just walked away. I was salty because she never made him clean anything and would ask me to clean up after him. It was futile because she replaced it with a new one that weekend.
Just recently she took my old iPhone 7 plus that my older sister broke on purpose and told me she was going to fix it for me. I wanted to make it a personal project but she demanded it. Today my older brother who is in his mid 20’s came in with my old newly fixed phone with my case. When i asked her about it she said she sold it when he had it in plain view. He just smiled. Mind you she didn’t even buy it.
Idk how but this just turned in to me ranting about my mom
Yeah, well its good if it starts to come out. Let others get enraged by the shit that your mom did. I would have at that point started rebelling against her and make her do stuff instead of you. Or just plain take the punishment and still stay after school. Then when you turn 18, tell her that she ain't got any power on you anymore, so you make your own rules. Obviously to break those too.
Best of luck in getting out of your Narc mom's house safely and with your sanity in a repairable state. Keep your chin up, and don't let her ego cravings tie you down for good.
Sounds like you’re the scapegoat child of a narcissist mother.
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It's Absurd you DUMMY! You would know that if you weren't so ignorant! I'm kidding I was just messing around
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@@edquad2765 You got me
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absurd speling
If I was a parent I’d encourage my kids to be social and watch shows and explore music taste.. damn these parents. I also won’t force religion onto them and let them choose what they want to believe, teach them about respecting nature, being friendly, earning respect, not letting people get the best of you.
And I’d definitely teach them how to survive in the wilderness. Wilderness survival is a skill too many lack, and it always comes in handy. You never know what’s gonna happen, it’s better to always know how to live in different situations.
And damn, I would teach them to not hate snakes and reptiles. They’re beautiful creatures that deserve better.
I could be a bit harsh at times as a parent, but if I ever do get kids (most likely not) I’ll raise them to be survivors. I’ll give them the love and care they need, the discipline they need, and the support and courage they need.
I worked as a paraprofessional at a preschool for 6 years. We had one young boy who was short and particularly clumsy, so he constantly tripped and subsequently hurt himself just by walking. This boy, like most playful children, often had bruises and bandaids both from school and home.
Well, one day we had a sudden meeting with his irate father about how we weren't watching his son well enough and "allowing him to fall". He then stated that he doesn't want his child running around on the playground anymore. So we had to agree to this request 🤦🏽♀️.
Yep. The little 4 year old boy was no longer allowed to run around and on the playground with his friends. It was so sad reinforcing this with him. We played with a lot of chalk and he had plenty of pushes on the swing set, but still...poor kid.
Also, please don't send your children to school with "nicer" clothes and expect them to come home in perfect condition, including expensive jewelry. We can only put an oversized shirt on your lil one when they paint or play in the water table, but your lil charmer is one of several we have to watch. At the end of the day teachers don't give a crap if your boy's Nikes got stained because he stepped in dirt...outside...
Anything: *exists*
Christian moms: tHat'S sAtAnIc
Kind of a blanket statement dont you think?
Crystal Ling So happy my mom is a regular Christian
You know, that’s actually true. We had a such a neighbor. Her kid and I once played a game were we grab stick and chant nonsense at each other like wizards(mind you just a fricking game). His mom saw us and called my parents and even the cops.
@@randdldar2580 Meanwhile my pastor's kids grew up watching Star Wars, anime, and reading Magnas.
Once argued with my friends mom cause she thought my friends music would make him kill himself so she needed a lyric sheet (it was dubstep)
My mom doesn’t let me go outside alone even around our quite innocent little neighborhood! Not even the garage or backyard is allowed because her reason is “I’m a girl”.same with my sister >:/ also no cooking,cutting (even no microwave!!)
Accuse her of being sexist
Your mom is committing treason to her own gender, a self sexism, gender betrayal
Accuse her of discrimination!!!
* sincierly, a boy *
Confusion
Many years ago when my daughter was in primary school, one of the other mothers tried to convince me that drinking water " rots ya guts" .... She would never give her son water to drink because her aunt drank water and her guts got all rotted out.. Yep seriously i know wtf
Lemmie guess, either wherever the Aunt lived had very poor-quality drinking water, or the mother was one of those whackjobs who belived those BS conspiracies about water floridation?
7:45
This is the cause of separation anxiety. Sure they will be upset for the first couple days but if they get used to staying with their parents for years it's gonna be a lot harder when they're like 10 and they try to leave them
I wasn’t allowed to say “just saying” or “my bad” because it shows (I quote) “the disrespect that I have for those around me and if I ever say those words ever again my dog will be taken away”
That’s fricked up
I never participated in extracurricular activities (also known as afterschool activities), not because I wasn't allowed to- nobody would even be bothered by that- but because I personally had zero interest in them
Meanwhile:
[My primary school teacher, while the class was on a field trip to the local fair, calling my parents]: excuse me, are you aware that your child wants to buy a sword?
[My parents]: ye
[Teacher]: no like, an actual sword
[My parents]: ye
[Teacher]: no an actual metal sword with a sharp blade
[My parents]: ye
[Teacher]: arent you afraid that he could hurt someone or himself?
[My parents]: nah
I still have that sword
That's actually funny
It's never too late to Uno Reverse Card those parents.
Yea when they need help in their nursing home, put them in the most crappist cheap one ypu can find or even a very strict one.
Oh god there breeding like rabbit's
2:00 I worked at a mini golf play/entertainment centre, where we were expected to play little games with the players on the course. One of mine was getting people to name Disney villains. One parent looked at me disdainfully and said "We don't let our children watch those movies."
I could not fathom what was left if DISNEY was inappropriate.
I was diagnosed with PTSD thanks to my upbringing. I'm STILL trying to fully recover.
Kid: "I have to poo"
The mother: * shook * "GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
Trying to watch something with kids from super-christian families that don't allow their kids to watch TV or go to the movies is probably the most frustrating way to watch anything. Because of not being exposed to cinematic storytelling they're simply unable to follow the plot, are constantly confused and keep asking over and over again why the characters did literally anything even when it's blatantly obvious simply because it wasn't expressly explained by a narrator.
My greatest fear is that I fall in love and have kids. And the woman I’m with becomes like this
I’m not allowed tot all to anyone online, even my school friends who I talk to, even in teens
Can’t go to friends house even in teens
These are my parents oh
Not allowed to watch “A Goofy Movie” yet allowed to watch “The Simpsons.”
My mom does the “stupid is a Nono word” thing. If we don’t like something, we have to say, “I really don’t care for that”
I live in Minnesota and the word “crap” is said by literally everyone but one of my friends parents yelled at me once for cussing and I was so confused. My saint of a mother said it all the time so I was shocked at her outrage. Oh and the word fart was also a no no.
It's like saying "pissed" in many places, it's not a cuss word
It varies over time, 'fart' was always rude/vulgar when I was young (not just family, everywhere)
Ian moseley Rude is the perfect descriptor, as it doesn’t necessarily fall into the “swear word” category.
10:40 sounds like somebody was wearing a lovely ankle bracelet supplied by the state and managed to convince some fool it was his parents being strict. Lmao
I have a friend who's only allowed to go out if there's an event at our community firehouse. (We live in a really rural area) Him and his brothers and sisters have to live under super strict rules. Basically, their parents didn't let them talk to people (or really have friends in general) no leaving the house, (they have security locks on the doors) and pretty harsh punishments if you ask me. (Mind you, he's 16) Tbh I think those parents are restricting their children from the outside world and seriously slowing their social growth. I haven't seen him in months because his mom found out he was talking to me, a (uh oh) *female.*
I really, really wish some parents would just figure out that so many rules are actually damaging their children and not helping them. A little sheltering is fine, and I understand if people don't want their kids around certain negative media, that's totally fine. Its just when they shield their children from literally *everything* does it become damaging, stunting their growth as people.
TL;DR: Guide your kids through life, don't hide them from it
Why would "Lilo and Stitch" even be against anyone's beliefs, unless they're talking about the weather God that was also a fish
That, or maybe cause aliens.
One time I was watching Girl Scouts play on the playground (I was a helper and I was watching the kids outside so leaders could prepare a craft inside.) Several girls had their GS shirts on, so most people knew what was going on/knew who those girls were with. It was a community playground as well, so anyone could be there.
This mom SCREAMED at her child to get over there. Mom starts cursing at her EIGHT YEAR OLD DAUGHTER telling her that she isn't allowed to play with Girl Scouts because GS supports PP and support killing babies. (This family had a ton of younger kids too, even 2 babies in car seats. All the adults in that family were smoking cigarettes.) This mom was screaming at her daughter the entire time and was still pissed as she left with her family.... Like, anyway, how was this girl supposed to know? From how she was screaming, it seemed like this girl had no idea what the hell was going on. I feel so bad for the kids, especially for having a mom like that.
I banned Rugrats because of the way the characters spoke. I was teaching at the time, and I was floored by the number of children whose speech patterns imitated those of the Rugrats, and who needed years of speech therapy to train it out of them..
a close friend was given a ten mile radius from her home to look for colleges.
that left her with three schools. *one* of which had a good program in her major.
Wasn’t allowed to watch Fairly Odd Parents on Nick because my mom “didn’t like how it portrayed the mom and dad as dumb”. But no, I was allowed to watch Danny Phantom?? Which portrayed the parents as dumb??
Leader at a youth club I volunteer at (was a member at the time, am a leader now) banned the words "cheater", "liar", "loser" (and all variations like "cheat", "lying", "lost", etc.) (they were as bad in her eyes as "f***" or "c***" to most people. Origin behind this was, one of the members was simultaneously a sore loser and a sore winner, he called people "cheater" if they beat him at games, called the "loser" if he won and they lost, called people "liar" if they disagreed with him or said something he didn't like. But none of us were allowed say any form of the words "cheat", "lie" or "lose" even if someone genuinely was cheating or lying or whatever! And how are you meant to learn "you can't win all the time" if the word "lose" is banned?!), ditto for fake curses like "shut the front door!" and "grasshole". And Joe used to always accuse people of swearing ("You said a bad word!"), whether they actually swear (or "swear"), make a sound effect, say nothing at all, or even if Joe is the one who says a bad word and he pins the blame on someone else!
As well as this, my friend, Mark, beat Joe (Cheater Liar Loser Guy) at a game of dice (we did this to determine who got the first turn on the Playstation), Joe accused the leader of cheating with the dice, and she believed him and made the two roll again, Mark lost and he's still mad about it to this day (it was about 13 years ago, so I was 10, Mark was 7 and Joe was 11)
This leader also basically banned all forms of negativity or anything that's "not nice" (what about when we enter the real world and hear "no", "never", "not" and other negative terms all the time, and even use them to prevent things we don't want? And being "not nice" means nothing, earthquakes, car crashes and cancer definitely aren't nice but they still happen!), and wouldn't let us swim in the deep end of the swimming pool even though the water was only 5ft deep there (I was above 5 feet at the time, and Joe, who was always very tall, was able to stand in the deep end, feet flat on the ground, and have his whole head above the water! We were young at the time, so some people were short and/or weak swimmers, but even the tall people like myself and Joe couldn't go into the deep end!). And then there was the time I got in trouble for saying "I don't want to be friends with you" to an annoying guy who kept pestering me and was made to apologize (what exactly am I meant to do, suddenly start liking him?), and myself and Joe got told "they are your friends" about two members we didn't like even though we insisted they weren't (are people not even allowed to dislike others anymore?)
And of course, the infamous cow incident, where Mark was holding a toy cow in his hand, he lost his grip on it and it fell, the leader accused him of throwing it, wouldn't listen to him explaining himself, and Mark went mental because he got frustrated trying to explain but getting nowhere, got in trouble for "not listening" and got sent home early and banned from the club for a week (he was the only person this ever happened to, EVEN THOUGH Joe often did worse things, in addition to his Cheater Liar Loser ways, he always ran off from the group (one time we were at the zoo and I couldn't see any of the animals because Joe kept running off and I had to go and get him back), which would normally give you an instant black spot (normally you get a warning first, and two black spots get you sent home, like Mark in the above story), and messed around. And one of the other guys used to swear (now I mean actually swearing like F-bombs and S-bombs, he often said "f*** you!" (even funnier with his accent, which made it sound like he said "fock", to rhyme with "rock") to the leader when things didn't go his way)
I have another story about Joe, not related to overprotection, but funny anyway, in the sign in book, we have numbered lines, with "Date: [today's date]" written above number 1, and Joe always wrote his name above the date! And as a joke, I used to write Joe's name up the top with my left hand (Joe has bad handwriting, even with what I assume is his good hand, and I'm right-handed, so I used my left hand to mimic his writing (which is probably even worse than my left-handed writing!))
An all-out ban on negativity will cause emotional stunting. I hope that leader was sacked. Damaging the kids he's supposed to care for... smh...
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 She ultimately left after a few years (idk if she quit or was fired though, she's been gone so long (several years) I'm the only remaining person who knew her) and the problem is now long gone (and my friends from the old days of club appear to be ok for the most part. Mark and I turned out fine, Joe became apathetic and withdrawn, basically a complete 180 of how he used to be (though idk that started after that leader left or not), but other than him, everyone else I knew and have seen since has turned out fine)
But I totally agree, if that had continued, we'd probably all end up as spoiled brats who freak out at the word "no" and can't deal with rejection or any sort of tragedy
My friend's mom doesn't let her take swimming lessons, because she thinks her daughter is gonna drown. While taking swimming lessons
Giulia ._. My mother used to teach me how to float in the bath and trust the water, later helped me learn how to swim and then enrolled me in a swimming club.
Also really keen on reading to the extent that I really cannot recall not being able to read myself.
Always had me 'help' with the baking showing me how to, even though my main contribution was sampling the raw mix.
Made sure I knew how to use an encyclopedia/dictionary (no internet/web in those days).
The most annoying thing that happened was, they banned me from watching undertale and also scary games tbh-
Undertale is one of my favorite games that i always wanted to play, but i can't.
Worst shit? I can't go out on my own too. I wish to have the freedom to finally go out. But my parent's won't let me. Man this is making me cry.
My friend isn’t allowed to watch anime. Not even for the obvious reasons, the stepmom really just hated that it was in Japanese and dubs weren’t acceptable either. Also, my parents were absolutely insane about cursing.
I wouldn't even want to enforce these rules. Sounds exhausting
My mom gets super peeved if I say anything like "frick", "crap", or "son of a motherless goat." She gets just as mad about alternate swear words as actual swearing. What the heck am I allowed to say then? I'm a Christian too but some people are just way too over the top.
Summer camp mom sounds like my mother. A kids she’d lose her mind when I or my siblings use words like stupid, suck, shut up.
This coming from the woman who used “Jesus Christ” and “goddamn it” several times a day. She would tell us to “stifle” rather than “be quiet” like a normal person.
My brother bought a Nirvana CD. We were listening to it on her stereo, which was a bold move on his part. Mom didn’t say anything though. It gets to “Rape me” and I’m surprised she still hasn’t said a word. Finally at the end when Cobain screams “rape me” six times in a row mom asks inquisitively “what’s he saying?” My brother and I look at one another and he said “rape... me”. Mom didn’t so much scream as she, with both hands on the steering wheel did a full body head bang movement while gutterally screeching “DEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIL MUUUUUUUUUSIIIIIC”
She’s not even religious. Although she puts on airs that she is.
I could go on.
This is an excellent example of why Christianity is no less cult like than an actual cult.
I once knew a family where the parents would not buy their daughter head phones for music playing devices (music playing devices would include radio, computer, MP3 player etc.) not because they did not want to spoil her, but because they (the parents) wanted to be able to listen to all music that the daughter was listening to.
Growing up in the UK in the mid 80s/90s, I was never allowed to watch the Simpson's. Mum said it was "anti-authority and set a bad example. Just because it's a cartoon does not mean it's suitable for children". Having watched loads of it as adult I found she was not wrong. lol 😂
One time this lady came through my line at work, I'm a cashier. I started talking to her about what video games her kids like and they liked Mine Craft, I think the kids were in the 6-10 range. I said something about how I'm surprised her kids still like Mine Craft, I would think they would be into Fort Nite. She said to me what's that? and I told her it's like a shooter battle royal game. She looked at me and said "Shooter? Like with guns? We dont allow games with guns in our house." I thought to myself that Fort Nite is the most G-rated shooter ever made lol
I didn’t have strict parents but I had a friend who had a WEIRD FAMILY. Like seriously their family baby sitter me when I was in 4th grade, and they would make all three children sleep in one room. 3rd grade, 5 grade, 7 grade. The 7 grade was had autism and I SWEAR the parents raised their other kids like they had autism. They all had to get dressed downstairs in the living room. One time I went to the waterpark with the 5 grader, and he was scared to go on the smallest rides. Their parents were overprotective: helmets, pg movies etc. The dad though, was a little weird. So me being a 4th grader and saying stupid stuff, said to the other 4th grader “I’m gonna rip your Pokémon card” and all of a sudden his Dad comes in and starts cussing me out. Not allowed to watch MANDALORIAN or wear “scary” hawloween costumes. Couldn’t watch or SPEAK of spongebob. Only watch CARTOON NETWORK. Not allowed to have personal electronics other than the 7 grader who got a IPOD. Moved in 5th grade and still wonder about that family
I knew a boy who wasn't allowed to cross the street without an adult (usally his mom). He was 19 and lived in a village...
My parents didn’t even know what parental restriction on mobile devices was, I’ve watched a bunch of crap and other things, yet I’ve turned into an almost straight A’s student they would rather stay home than go to parties. Putting restrictions is like putting up a sign that says forbidden fruit. if you just let kids figure out themselves and “explain” why they’re not allowed to do certain things, then they’re gonna be functioning adults that know how to solve problems and stand up to their bad decisions.
I had cousins that weren’t allowed to watch Rugrats because the grandpa would say “gong flabbit,” a parody of “goddammit.”
1:20 the word “stupid” considered as profanity. That’s basically my 7th grade math teacher. Lady didn’t allow you to say anything, no crap, stupid, darn, dang, shoot, frick, or anything like that. She ABSOLUTELY DESPISED stuff like that, even to where she corrected you in front of the entire class and tell you not to do that. She didn’t even let her 5 year old daughter watch PJ masks, because of “violence”. What’s better yet, is she called my friend stupid. She wasn’t even a good teacher, our class all the time says crap about her and how she acted towards us. Thank god she isn’t our teacher anymore, worse 8 months of my life
Some parent at my school in fifth grade wouldn’t allow to play finding Nemo for whatever reason so we ended up watching a movie where a dog dies instead. !???!?!?!? Like come on
Look, I get parents not wanting to expose their children to possibly dangerous things like burning themselves on the stove or going out alone but it will be a lot harder for the kid when they go off to college or out into the real world and they don't know how to cook and have never been outside alone. It will also be mentally damaging when they're kids and they see all their friends off having fun doing things that they can't
Agreed, I hear my friends talking about going to places without their parents, and I honestly feel so jealous and annoyed, but at least I can access things like the stove or microwave
Pause at 7:43 that's actually true, it's unhealthy to drink water for 30 min before/after eating aswell as during.
Yet untold millions of people do it every single day, across the seven continents, without any harm coming to them at all...
My mother was so overprotective of my younger brother that she usually needed to hold him by the hand. Once, at church, he wanted to go play with the other boys. She was clearly heard to call out "Don't run, you might fall and hurt yourself!" He was 12. Yep.
Those Christian parents know that All Hallow's Eve was a Christian tradition before Halloween became the modern thing right? You dressed as a monster/spirit to confuse daemons...
The pentagram was also a religious symbol too. Its only demonic when you turn the top tip (pointing towards heaven) down (pointing towards hell). Similar to turning a cross upside down
@@xenonsan3110 Huh. I didn't know that, that's interesting.
Actually, it was a pagan festival subverted by early Christians in an attempt to suppress paganism
@@ianmoseley9910 You're actually right
8:24 ACTUALLY Disney has covers of songs that has swears without swears so the kids look up the songs and hear swears. That’s very family friendly.
OMFG the Wall-E one is literally my mom. Apparently it's "leftist propaganda to indoctrinate kids into believing in global warming." I couldn't tell you how true that is considering I've still never seen that movie. Also, when she found out we were learning about global warming in 4th or 5th grade, she made me write "Global warming is a hoax" on my homework and then called the teacher to complain when it was marked wrong.
Well now I feel kinda guilty 😅 I'm 23 and when I'm in a high-traffic area, I like to hold hands with whoever I'm walking with. Probably stems from the fact that I'm the big sister 😏 so my siblings would often hold my hand. I just wanna make sure we all get across safe 😖
1: I've heard 11 year-olds say f*ck, sh!t, and a lot of other very...colorful words.
I was 7 when I started reading Harry Potter and started talking about it with a friend at her house. Her mom suddenly started chastising me for talking about Satanic stuff. I guess she thought wizards, witches and magic were of the devil. At one point she says something like: "Just because you worship the devil and are going to hell doesn't mean you need to drag everyone else with you. You can still come over and be *friend's* friend, but you can't talk about that stuff. Being here may be the only chance you have of going to heaven."
I was and am Christian, and she was supposed to know that. And even if that is what you thought about Harry Potter, why would you say that to a 7 year old?
Yep, I'm not even Christian and have gotten similar responses to reading Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson
And here I thought my mother is controlling because she wouldn't allow me to cook some things when I was ten and alone at home. (Boiling eggs, making tea, sandwiches and other easy things were allowed, but mention stuff like making soup, scrambled eggs, etc while alone and her hair turned fifty shades of grey)
When my mom was a kid, she had a friend who's parents thought boring was a bad word
Having raised many children, I have to agree with those parents. Calling something boring is usually a kid's way of insulting someone who planned an activity for them and can be quite hurtful.
Also, few things annoy me more than a kid complaining about being bored while I am busy cooking, cleaning and earning money to support them.
Complaining about being bored was a sure fire way of landing yourself a bunch of new chores in my house.
Tara Wright geez
All of my friends are guys. My mom perfectly understood. Considering she had only guys friends. She was allowed to spend the night with her guys friends. My grandmother let her do that. My grandmother has her views of life on every little thing. It still baffles me to this day that my mom got to do that. My mom believes it makes no since to bring up stuff to kids and tell them not to do stuff, most of the time, then it makes them think about it and possibly then they'd want to do it. Like how if I wanted any piercings as a young teen she'd take me. She would let me know that she'd let me do stuff not say not to do things.
People think my parents were too strict... they weren't. I think I have proof now.
Feel bad for the first person
Nobody :
Everyone:
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It's a spelling error.
Don't forget Motherthwacker, wonder how that one became a thing.
7:42
But, water improves digestion...exactly 30 minutes.
This is the reason why I study psychology and sometimes neurology
8:20 They already did it twice. What do you expect them to do, be addicts ??
To be honest any woman who wants to sleep with their kids in the same bed after like 2 or 3y/o.... Lets just say he is likely using the children as a crazy shield.
This was about 2 months ago. I had sprained my ankle pretty badly and had crutches and a splint for my ankle, and could get around with some ease. My mom didn’t let me go anywhere outside of the house in case I hurt myself even more. This was at the point that I could put my body weight on my foot and walk with a slight limp, but the crutches helped. I wanted to go to a little corner store to pick up some milk for tea (yes I live in England) and some biscuits for the tea. The shop was not far from where I live. That was unacceptable. I also have really strict internet control over a lot of things like games and videos. I’m really glad I found out about VPNS.
Edit: 7:45. Not exactly a lie. It doesn’t slow down digestion but makes is harder to do, since it dilutes the acid that your stomach is making. It won’t cause cancer but can be a factor that may potentially cause mild constipation. Nothing too bad just a bit harder to take a shit. Source: I get this when I drink water while eating food. So does my family and most of my friends. I just stay hydrated before eating and only drink during when the food is really sour or spicy or sweet or bitter or salty.
“TRUE PURPOSE” that shit made me laugh
"Hi-diddly-ho neighbors. What can I ding-dong-diddily-do for you?"
The most absurd thing I've seen recently is misspelling absurd when it's in the reddit post for you to reference.
I fixed the spelling of absurd during editing, unfortunately it didn't follow through to the title/thumbnail, thumbnail editor goes off the title.
the one at 4:32 is understandable; in fact my parents also had that rule when i was young, and while they are still stern about the rule they have been more lenient with it now that i’m older (as in, i can carpool if i were in need of doing so, rather than not at all).
*OBSURD*
These are creepy! The one about the crazy mom not permitting the word "stupid" or anything negative was weird. Imagine trying to engineer a world in which no one is allowed to say/express anything negative. It would be a good science fiction story.
For the sleeping one, I was dependent on sleeping with my parents until 11-12 I’m not sure exactly. So yea don’t do that plz
One of my friend’s mom told him he couldn’t hang out with me (we’re both guys) because my hair is too long. It doesn’t even hang off of my head, it’s maybe 5-7 inches at most
The 8 Mile one has me rolling and only family in the car I get not wanting to be held responsible if something happens
The weird thing is.... Halloween started from a Christian holiday.
Thought it was a nordic holiday
I find the history of Halloween very facinating!
I wasn’t allowed to hang out with kids who had divorced parents when I was younger. Also couldn’t watch phineas and ferb until I moved out. My mom had to approve the books I read and the songs I listened to until I was 17. They also had a special engraved paddle to spank me with, but they did it with love so it was “ok”. My dad grounded me and yelled at me for 3 days straight because my car quit shifting gears on my way home one night. He didn’t believe me and tried to sell my car where it promptly broke down and he had to push it half a mile back home. Never apologized and still sold it. My parents still track my every location and say they will cut me out of their lives if I refuse. I’m still weighing the pros and cons of that one
Basically they tried to raise me as a perfect Christian woman and I turned into an Athiest Lesbian. Good job
Bf was cutting potato's and his dad walked in and said "use my hands faster dammit" and bf said "you mean my hands?" And his dad goes "no MY hands, until you move out I have not given you permission to call those hands yours, they're MY hands"
My friend could go out by her self even with friends durning her teens
0:57 reminds me of the time I was with my cousins who are a few years younger than me. We were playing and one of them said something and I just kinda laughed and said it was stupid, one of the younger ones looked and at me all shocked and said "You said the 's' word!" Apparently, they weren't allowed to say "stupid", I think it was a school thing. When they weren't in earshot, my older sister whispered to me, "That's not the 's' word we grew up with!"
Also, these incredibly strict Christian parents make me cringe since I am a Christian. I know for a fact that if try to shelter your kids from those things regardless of if you're a Christian or not, they're just going to find a way to get it somehow. For instance, if a kid's Christian parent said they aren't allowed to read Harry Potter, they'll just find the audio books on UA-cam or Spotify. I know because I did.
I had a parent remove their child from scouting because they saw the scout leader, at the end of the meeting while the kids were allowed time to socialize before pick up, smoking on the furthest part of the parking lot away from all the children.
Okay for those who don't know this about JRR Tolkien he was very religious and if that Mom actually read the silmarillion or any of his other books she would understand that but he just didn't want to talk to her child for the rest of her life and if you haven't read the silmarillion read it it's great
I wasn’t allowed to watch fairy godparents when I was a kid, but I could watch hunger games. I don’t understand why
My mom banned me from watching Scooby Doo.
It wasn't because she had any moral objection to Scooby Doo - she just despised it and didn't want to hear Scooby Doo at all.
After this, I kinda want to be ridiculously reckless. Like getting disowned reckless.
The Christians putting down Halloween really irks me! I used to watch The 700 Club. Whenever Pat Robertson would go on his rant about Halloween being The Day of Satan I'd just roll my eyes and say, "Oh please!" There was even one segment that he suggested an alternative celebration at the church that sounds like he is stuck in the 1950s!
My mother recently had another child. And she isn't letting my sister do normal things like walk on concrete/normal sidewalks, let alone run because she's sure my sister isn't capable of being aware of her own feet. My sister is sure gonna have some damn problems with believing in her own ability to do things...
Was there a problem with the birth? A friend of mine’s baby had the cord around his neck at birth (he’s fine but she freaked out). She’s super protective of him to the point it sometimes hinders him.
No candy in our rooms
No games on my phone
No job until I finish college
And lots more!