Silly 'Dad' Rules
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What silly rules did your parents impose on you when you were younger?
My old man is ALWAYS right about EVERYTHING if ever you try and question his rule then you are wrong ALWAYS.
Shutting doors, Turning off lights (perfectly reasonable really but his appoletic reaction if this is not done is boarding on comical).
If you didn't eat your dinner it would be put in the fridge and served up each evening until you finally did.
We were never allowed televisions in our rooms until the age of about 13.
Only allowed a certain amount of squash in your glass.
Its not a moaning thread more of a thread to talk about the comical things your parents use to impose.
My old man is ALWAYS right about EVERYTHING if ever you try and question his rule then you are wrong ALWAYS.
Shutting doors, Turning off lights (perfectly reasonable really but his appoletic reaction if this is not done is boarding on comical).
If you didn't eat your dinner it would be put in the fridge and served up each evening until you finally did.
We were never allowed televisions in our rooms until the age of about 13.
Only allowed a certain amount of squash in your glass.
Its not a moaning thread more of a thread to talk about the comical things your parents use to impose.
Eddh said:
What silly rules did your parents impose on you when you were younger?
You're not a 'Dad' are you? Because when you get an electric bill that's £200+, a gas bill that's well north of £400, a weekly grocery bill around £120 and school costs that get bigger and bigger each year, then you start to get a little p!ssed off when you see your kids trying to get the bills even bigger by just not thinking a little bit every now and then...But saying all that, no I'm not as anal as your dad appears to be about stuff! Except no TV's in rooms - I have a dedicated large kids/play room with computers, TV, DVD, video, consoles, etc, for them to use.
Really didn't have many rules at all - we were allowed to do what we wanted and expected to know what was right and wrong - getting it wrong meant severe punishment so we very quickly learnt how to judge better! (or hide what we were doing...)
Only 3 I can remember:
Not allowed to drive the car till I had done an hours piano practice - why? I hated the piano and the lessons cost them money - why not save money AND the arguments?!
Not allowed to leave the table until I'd finished the meal.
no more than 3 biscuits in one day.
Only 3 I can remember:
Not allowed to drive the car till I had done an hours piano practice - why? I hated the piano and the lessons cost them money - why not save money AND the arguments?!
Not allowed to leave the table until I'd finished the meal.
no more than 3 biscuits in one day.
And mine's only 17 months old.the always right thing is very annoying, even now when im 20 and kinda know what im talking about 
THE worst one ever is when we got into an argument about cars for some reason, dont remeber the detials appart from him telling me that an Audi A4 is just an A3 with a boot stuck on the end
I really tried to tell him erm no, completely different cars buut he was having none of it.
Oh and the time he hit me round the head in cneterparks with his coat and cut it open. Mum + dad trying to deny it happened when i bring it up, theres only the small matter of the scarr on my head
THE worst one ever is when we got into an argument about cars for some reason, dont remeber the detials appart from him telling me that an Audi A4 is just an A3 with a boot stuck on the end
I really tried to tell him erm no, completely different cars buut he was having none of it. Oh and the time he hit me round the head in cneterparks with his coat and cut it open. Mum + dad trying to deny it happened when i bring it up, theres only the small matter of the scarr on my head
Turning things off was always the biggest thing - lights, TV's, etc.
He'd come down from downstairs past my bedroom and notice that the light was on. He'd then come all the way down to the lounge, sit down and tell me my light was on and I'd have to go and turn it off
Ditto TV's - sitting down for dinner, last one had to go back and turn the TV off if it was left on.
Not a silly rule when I think about it - it's not good to be wasteful and it makes me laugh now. Nowadays, I also turn everything off out of habit when I leave the room in my own house!
He'd come down from downstairs past my bedroom and notice that the light was on. He'd then come all the way down to the lounge, sit down and tell me my light was on and I'd have to go and turn it off
Ditto TV's - sitting down for dinner, last one had to go back and turn the TV off if it was left on.
Not a silly rule when I think about it - it's not good to be wasteful and it makes me laugh now. Nowadays, I also turn everything off out of habit when I leave the room in my own house!
Rob. said:
I always remember being told to "look with your eyes and not with your hands" by my Dad when in a shop/museum or whatever. I`m a Dad now and it`s rubbed off on me I think!
But Mums could never manage to do the same if you cut yourself."Let me look at it for you." Followed by fingers going straight into the bit that hurt.
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