General Discussion

Does anyone else have weird rules that your parents/guardians gave you while growing up? Sometimes parents can be a bit.....silly.

For example, when I was younger, my mother used to always yell at me for using the "x" button to close out of the internet browser. She said I was going to "mess up the internet" if I did that. She would force me to go to the settings/dropdown file menu and select "exit" every. single. time.

EDIT: Thought of another one! Whenever I cleaned the hair out of my comb/brush (I have very thick hair, forgive me), my mother would make me blow on the wad of hair before throwing it away. She claimed it had something to do with "removing myself" from the hair so people couldn't use it for voodoo or curse me or something with it. I actually got in trouble for forgetting to do this a lot. *shrugs*

My mom and I were talking about something - parties, I think, and she said to me, "If you want to go to a bar and have a good time without being hit on, go to a gay bar. When I was in college I hung out with a lot of gay people and at a gay bar you won't be hit on by creepy strangers."

Apparently my mom was in the theatre club in college (in the 1970s) and she said that "a lot of the theatre students were gay" and I guess she went to gay bars with them and that's how she got the experience? She's also given me tips on finding a gay best friend.

@lamarqueisdead Ah, I've been told that one before too!

c: Our grandma didn't like us flipping through tv channels. She thought it would break the remote and/or tv. You had to know the channel number, go there directly and hope something good was on.

My mom was always super awkward with me, and taught me things by writing it down and letting me read it or finding books or websites to use.

The one thing she actually taught me herself?

How to take a bra off while keeping a shirt on.

@Tysm

Hey that can be useful though!

I don't know if this counts, but my roommate's mother was trying to convince her that the earth is flat and that "the earth is round" is just a conspiracy.

My mom won't let me have friends over if the house isn't clean. Not because she wants the house clean, but because she's worried they'll judge her for having a messy house. I get into arguments with her all the time about it, because I couldn't care less about what people think of me and where I live. If they want to judge me for it, well then that's their problem. I can't make her see how ridiculous her belief is, especially since the house is messy because she doesn't have the energy to do anything about it. Clean your house for yourself, not for other people! :/

@evertenn my dad has actually told me outright that he intentionally taught me a few things wrong when I was growing up and he doesn't remember what they are...

My dad once convinced my little cousin that seagulls are pterodactyls, and she came running up to her mom saying, "Mommy, mommy! I saw a pterodactyl!"

"Don't gnaw on pencils or your teeth will grow like a beavers!". They actually made my cousin the 'glaring example' since he had such horrid rabbitsteeth when his permanent teeth came out.

[quote name="Ismaiel" date=2016-07-24 13:26:13] "Don't gnaw on pencils or your teeth will grow like a beavers!". They actually made my cousin the 'glaring example' since he had such horrid rabbitsteeth when his permanent teeth came out. [/quote] i two have giant rabbits teeth (at least i got braces and now my teeth are straight ;3;)