30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow

My parents just let us have free reign downstairs, tell us “no interruptions unless blood or fire,” and disappear upstairs for an hour or so.

I got hyper when tired, so taking naps was a good thing looking back

Actually, maybe mum had been assaulted by a sibling and swore it would not happen in her family.... Ours is not to wonder why....

I was vaccinated and I had whooping cough as a child that scarred my lungs and have had life long breathing problems. Vaccines don't stop you getting it.

I think you’re missing the point. It‘s not about vaccination here. It’s about a mother who destroys her children‘s childhood, probably because she suffered a very strong trauma herself.

I guess mum had psychologic problems of her own, like being touched by someone in a way they shouldn't have.

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you seemed to jump to anti-vax rather quickly there. You don't know the full story

Vaccinations aren't 100% foolproof. Getting vaxxed doesn't mean you won't get sick, it just lowers your chances. And I can believe that she didn't want to leave her 15yr old home alone. Calm down Karen.

That's very weird of you to assume she's anti-vaxx when we have no idea.

I'm guessing you have no idea what the mother's motivation was.

Wow Ginny, you're not too smart.

Yes that's what I was thinkin

Yikes... sounds like some strange s**t

It's also known as colorism.

It's called colorism and it's very alive and real.

Spike Lee made a film that features "colorism" - School Daze. I watched it with a social group I belonged to that was mostly Black. One of the guys there told me that white people were not supposed to know about it and wanted to know if I was shocked. I wasn't because it was consistent with things that I had noticed.

Colourism. It’s huge. Also in Latino culture and Asian culture. There’s this movie called “passing” which really paints a good picture of what it was like in the past (although v prevalent still today).

My friend who is from a Native Reserve told me it exists there, too. How dark you are, which side of the road you live on...as if they didn't have enough hassle from the white community.

just learned that today? lucky

Yup. Colorism is real, just like racism and ethnocentrism, sadly!!

In the '50s and '60s, my mother worked in the library in NYC. The ladies in her department were all from different backgrounds, but one black lady from the West Indies would not associate with the black lady who was from the South. She felt the Southern lady was "too dark." My mother could never invite them to our apartment at the same time.

They call it colorism.

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A lighter skin color gives more power in Islam. If a man is darker than his wife, he must obey his wife. Unless the woman belongs to a lower caste (place of birth, profession of parent, version of religion, etc.).

Unfortunately there are way more than 50 shades of racism

Very true! No child is born racist it is learned from the actions and words of adults

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From reading many Bored Panda threads, almost everything is child abuse to some people.

And then heading off to the public library to find books on witchcraft no doubt.

My Sunday school teacher did the same! Then when one girl started questioning him on it he went off on this whole tirade about how magic was bad, playing the sims was bad, wearing clothes with skull patterns on it was bad......and the next week he was surprised when half the class just stopped going.

I was told at school that the Beatles and AC/DC were tools of satan.

My Sunday School teacher told us that Santa wasn't real and that believing in him meant we would burn in Hell. I was 5.

Seriously? It sounds like your teacher was bananas. Unbelievable.

Look at the things SHE thinks are true.

Our preacher mentioned this during one of her sermons, I just assumed it was a book made into a movie without looking into it that deep

"No, one or two wizards is ok. But in Harry Potter, there are simply too many!!!1!"

No HP in our time but still we managed to survive.

Yeah most Christians are totally fine with any fantasy content. In fact I went to a 'Church of the Latter Day Geek' service once, which was cool. Drawing parallels between things that featured in fantasy and sci-fi movies and faith.