31 Weird And Silly Rules Parents Had Kids Follow That They Still Don’t Get After Growing Up

I had gay barbies too, but that was because my mother detested "American" toys and once she'd FINALLY caved in and bought me a couple of Barbie dolls (and a couple of knock off Barbies) she flat refused to buy me a Ken. My Barbies dated a couple of weird knitted dolls I had, or more often each other.

Ah yes... there would be no whores in the world if parents kept their girls from having boy dolls... sure that makes sense.... why do we have to share a planet with idiots like that?!?!?!?!

Barbie and her best "friend" Midge Hadley - makes me laugh out loud.

I heard about someone who had this rule so they cut one of the Barbie's hair short and wrapped tape around their middle til their stomach was even with their boobs. Trans Barbie.

You just take one of your Barbies and cut the hair short. Viola! A boy! (We didn't have a ken doll either.)

We have a no waking Mummy and Daddy before 7 rule (I say rule, if he needs us it's fine, if he wants snuggles, it's fine, we're just not having loud games, etc). Found out he wakes around 6.30 and reads for half an hour. I feel so utterly proud (and have told him)

Once one becomes a parent, the reason for these types of rules become very clear. At some point, kids need to go to bed so the adults can have 30 minutes of quiet.

Kids getting enough sleep, adults getting some rest. It's not a strict rule in our home, but we usually put the kids to sleep around 8-9pm. There was a period when they were going to bed later and they were always tired even though they have got the same amount of sleep.

Fair enough a lot of people do that

I had an 8:30 bedtime until I moved in with my dad at 16

Ooookay. Wtf.

That's kind of cruel.

Why did he get it in the first place?!

Yeah. This kind of thing was my normal as a kid. My "parents" bought me a bicycle then wouldn't let me ride it out of the yard. The stepdad actually told me he'd chop it up with an axe if I went into the road on it. It sat unused until they gave it away.

It was an art installation.

Ehm, and how did your dad come to know this?

It seems every generation has an issue with what the younger generation wears.

Dad spends too much time at the strip club.

I'm thinking more of heavy metal musicians.

It could be used as a weapon

That would be Itdgtvs (Ich träume den ganzen Tag von Séx) because Adidas is German.

Adidas is the contraction of its founder's name: Adi Dassler...

Yay, Korn!

KORN

No the heII it doesn't! 🤣

That's borderline abuse. What if you sweat after sports. Did they want you to reek? Isolate you from your peers? How cruel...

OMG the body hair rule was something enforced in schools in my country back when I was a student (I don’t know if it’s still around). My school was pretty lax cause it was a private one but in government run schools apparently girls were punished if they had their legs (or arms) shaved! Such a weird rule! There’s nothing wrong with body hair but it should be one’s own choice if they want to shave or not.

I wasn't allowed to shave my legs either. I suffered from hirsutism. I was bullied so much that school allowed me to wear long pants in gym class, which wasn't part of the mandatory sports outfit.

I wasn't allowed to shave either, but I bought disposables and shredded my skin just fine by myself.

I have almost no body hair, and as an adolescent I wanted SO BADLY to be grown up, I thought shaving my legs would bring me one step closer to being like the older, cooler, more sophisticated girls. I would use my sisters’ razors; desperately shaving my bare legs because I believed that old chestnut about how if you shaved the hair would grow back thicker. It never did; I never became one of the cool girls, which I 100% blame on my lack of leg hair.

Ah yes, keep your child from having depression by making their life depressing. Checks out.

That's why I don't look in the mirror. If I can't see myself and my depression it just goes away! ...wait, no, that's not right.

Anything that blocked off the sound of this mother would be a cure, not a cause, for depression.

Mine wishes she did this. When I found a song I really liked I'd play it relentlessly. I've made her hate some good songs.