My mom had 1 solid rule in the house, she'd say "don't get hurt, or I'll kill you" the last part was obviously a joke and I knew that from the first time she said the line. Dark humor is something I grew up with and still love.
I was an only child. My father had a rule that I couldn't use any appliances if I didn't own them. You know, fun stuff like the washing machine or the stove. Nope, off limits. He did make exceptions for the microwave, VCR, DVD player, TV, basically things that I knew how to fix if they quit working. But heaven forbid I use the washing machine, despite the fact the school threatened to suspend me for not having clean socks. Edit: To make such matters even worse, I was only allowed to bathe twice a week, 3 times if I was lucky enough to get muddy on a rainy day. Oh boy my childhood was fun... /s
does that include the sink? no washing dishes? what about vacuuming… id say thats pretty lucky aside from the tv, hygiene, and washing your clothes part
@@iam_emkay For about the last 3 to 5 years of my father's life, no washing dishes or vacuum cleaner either. I was an adult by this point though and was living at my mother's, who actually does let me do such things. The kitchen water at my dad's didn't work for his last few years, there was a leak under the trailer and he shut the valve off to that end of the trailer. He wouldn't allow me to go under the trailer to fix it either, dunno why because I would have been glad to. He just basically used disposable plates and bottles and TV dinners and stuff. For his last 5 years or so, he wouldn't allow vacuuming either. He already had a mass in his right lung for the past 10 years or so and refused surgery, so he was concerned he would get much sicker rapidly if we stirred up the dust. Unfortunately he was absolutely right too, after he passed in 2014, I ended up vacuuming the entire place 5 times before I didn't see much dust coming into the bagless vacuum. Yes, 5 whole vacuuming sessions, the carpet was THAT dirty! And sure enough, I ended up with a bad case of the flu from doing that. I know for a fact he was right, that sh!t would have killed him much sooner if we had vacuumed while he was still alive. Why was he that way? I dunno, partly stubborn, partly paranoid, partly crazy... 🤷♂️
I grew up in an extremely lenient household so there weren't that many rules, let alone weird ones, but the closest one I had to a "weird" rule was that the WiFi had to be off while we slept, and by "we" I mean my mom. This practically ensured that I couldn't play (most) videogames past, let's say, 12am, even without a specific rule against them. It's not even for power saving reasons, but rather because my mom is concerned about the WiFi waves disturbing our sleep. Meanwhile my friend's house has wifi with internet speeds more than 10x that of mine and yet they don't seem concerned.
well it can cause problems like increasing the likelihood of cancer and other stuff if an emitter is to close to you. but i don't think it would effect sleep much
the strangest things I experienced in my childhood was that I wasn't allowed to take anything out of the kitchen or cook in it. I'm not allowed to dress myself, which often leads to the misunderstanding that my friends ask me if I'm gay. Even the people in my class sometimes ask me these specific question. Also, I'm not allowed to hang up Paintings or rearrange anything in my room. My mom said to me when I was about 6ish I'm not allowed to bring anyone to my home. She still says that after more than 10 years.
Rule: "All pants off at 19.00 before going to grandpa's room." Basically, we played a lot outside and got really dirty. We ruined a lot of clothes and dirtied furniture and didn't care. So in stead of my family saying that we should not make the furniture dirty or soiling stuff by changing clothes, which we never did anyways, we were told "all pants were off at 19.00". also, obviously 19.00 was the latest we were allowed to play outside. We always played outside. And, once we got our food, we ALWAYS visited grandpa in his room because he was our favourite person. He had his own WORM farm that he fed milksoaked oats and he was making fish fly stuff so yeah, awesome! We NEVER thought it was weird until people started with awkward faces when retelling our regular evening routines...
@@georgehall1826 obviously some people would think that growing a worm farm for fishing was pretty weird but usually we just performed jokes, reciting poetry and read stories to eachother! Grandpa and grandma were the coolest. We were always demanding their attention. Grandpa allowed us to go on a camping trip in the living room and he built us a frekkin tree hut with two floors in the forest. He had a small inflatable boat that he named with champagne and let us float about in the water whist tied from shore by a rope. He made the whole family dress up like pirates and we all hunted for treasure. So yeah.. back in the day he was not weird he was goat.
I would say one rule we have in the house would be that the oldest sibling does all the chores in the house and the younger one doesn't have to do much. (Example the younger sibling would only have to take out the trash once a week and that is enough to not do anything else, but the older sibling would have to do the dishes about 6-7 days a week the only time they don't have to do it is if we went out for dinner, all the laundry in the house, cleaning all the bathrooms by themselves, vacuum every room in the house, have to dust of every photo shelves and what not, mop the floors by hand because our parents want the floor to shine, depending on the room you had to would take almost 2 1/2 hours with no break and there are others things to do throughout the house as well.) Now when the older sibling moves out the next older sibling takes over, to give an idea I'm the middle child but I would do more the minimum amount so now that my older brother left, I have to pick up everything he did, but I don't struggle thanks to what I had done years before hand. Now for the best part my little brother he does absolutely nothing he does the bare minimum, but I will be leaving soon and now he has to do everything on his own, he should have listened to my advice instead of treating me like shit for the last few years. By the way if you are still reading this, this is just one of the rules we have.
@RANBOOdls so then you understand the sweet victory of telling someone you told them what would happen if they didn't behave or listen to others. (Referring to my little brother due he doesn't listen or cares about hearing warnings)
9:05, my dad also said something like that, but he isn't exactly against Halloween. My mom on the other hand just thinks about how fun the trick or treating was back when she was outside of our native country. (Our native country doesn't celebrate Halloween, but my school does). One of my art teachers also gave a whole lecture on how we must avoid evil spirits and how Halloween attracts evil spirits. Fun Note: Halloween was first a harvest thing where people thought that ghosts and evil spirits would eat their crops so they gave out food to them so they wouldn't eat their crops. So Halloween was meant to be a something to get rid of spirits?
The costumes are to blend in with the demons and spirits that are supposed to appear on Halloween. The spirits will appear whether you celebrate the holiday or not.
@MetaKnight964 "On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits." Literally the first thing you read if you look up "Halloween Costume History". The next time you think, DON'T!
Not to mention that now it’s kids wearing costumes, many times not even scary, yet some parents freak out. They’re probably the same people that made up stories about poison or razors in the candy. I’ve never heard of any story, substantiated or not about this happening. It was more like rhetoric. And if you’re an adult female, it’s about dressing provocatively 1 night a year. 😉
Some many of these parents mentioned in these stories should never have been allowed to have kids....or take care of kids.....or be within 20 feet of them ANYWAYS, my dad made a rule that you can't hit someone in the nuts if you're in the living room. Doesn't matter which house we're in either, if its a living room the rule applies. I don't even remember why this rule was implimented, but now its like an inside joke for my family
I wasn't allowed friends growing up. Yeah. I had a couple secret freinds, but if me parents found out I would be grounded - banned from leaving the house for months (happened twice) Not even to school. Social Services knew. Didn't care. Me brother and sister were allowed friends- just not me. No idea why. Anyway, not spoke to me parents in 17 years - have tons of friends now :)
3:06 ok this is relatable but it’s different. Until I was about 9 and not living on my moms side of the family as much anymore, I was never allowed in the kitchen while they were cooking dinner. Also that reminds me, while I was eating I got full and didn’t want to eat dinner anymore and have leftovers the next day. But what happened was my step-dad was already in a bad mood, and when I said I was full, he SHOVED A F**K TON OF SPAGHETTI INTO MY MOUTH, FORK SCRAPING MY THROAT AND ALL. And I just sat there crying, told my mom, and THEY DIDNT BELIEVE ME… also we were forced to play in the playroom and couldn’t use electronics very much. (an hour a day) And if we complained that we were bored of the playroom and didn’t want to play with toys anymore, it was the same “go play” answer like before. Also we were FORCED TO CLEAN UP A FLOOR FULL OF TOYS… I am SO THANKFUL to live in a different household with more freedom. However, they’ve gotten their act together and are more allowing (yay good ending)
Wow, You would think the wife would have said something about the asshole dad that excluded his daughter from everything and told her he never wanted her. That's straight up child abuse. Most women who won't stick up for themselves will at least stick up for their kids.
My mother HATED us eating ice cream if it wasn't summer.not only in the house but outside too.She believed ice cream makes me and my brother sick ,but when i started highschool i realize this rule was dumb and i started to rebel by eating ice cream any chance i get.When she find out she get freak out and told me if i got sick,never come to me to tell,but i never got sick once,however when i actually got sick she imidietly blame me for ,you guest it,eating too much ice cream. My father on the other hand,never let me or brother from buying any kind of video game,he says its a waste of money and not wort it at all.free to play game was fine,even pirating those game was fine.for years i never tried pirate games because majority of them was viruses,my brother on the other hand always dowloaded viruses and ends up broke his or my pc time to time. finally after got into a part time job i decided to purchase a video game.but first i told my decision to my farther for some reason.He tried his best to convince me to not buy it at all cost,he even offered to buy that game with HİS money just so i won't be the one who buyed. but i stick to my decision and finally purchased that game.and now im an official gamer
One of us. but seriously the no ice cream thing for that reasoning makes no sense, and i can kinda see the logic of it being a waste of money but it's for entertainment so as long as you're enjoying yourself it shouldn't matter what you spend your money on(cept illegal stuff) so good on you for sticking to your guns and buying it yourself.
Okay to be fair, I get the "no answering the door for unannounced visitors" mom. That's the most annoying shit ever. They either want free food, money, or to case the joint and see if you've got anything valuable.
Maybe the only "strange" rule that I had (single child) was being allowed to eat chips only once a month and now from a grown up perspective I know why my parents made that rule and it was because it's not healthy at all! My stomach hurts if I eat too much, even a normal bag is too much sometimes when it comes to chips for me now but it's okay tbh, there's only 2 flavours that I like anyway. Because of that rule I quickly stopped eating most of the junk food you can buy and im not fazed by it at all, in hindsight it was a good rule.
While it's not terrible, the reason you get a stomach ache when eating chips is probably because you never built up a tolerance. For instance, when I turn 21, my parents are going to take me out drinking so that I can try different kinds of alcohol, and make sure I don't do anything stupid or get blackout drunk. Basically, every now and then just eat almost the stomach ache amount of chips, and keep increasing the amount of you ever feel like you might eventually want to eat a lot of chips. Also, tortilla chips are much healthier than potato chips, though slightly more bland.
@@MakamaFEET you can build up a tolerance to anything, your body just gets used to processing whatever substance and gets better at it, like learning a language. Now, if you eat too much, say, sugar, you get diabetes, unlike learning a language.
Based on the historical activities, I can see why Halloween is called the devil's holiday, but based on the origins of its name, it's literally an event to celebrate holy figures.
There isn’t much of a story here but it’s still a really dumb rule. When I was around eight I wasn’t allowed to watch sponge bob but later I would watch the second guardians of the galaxy movie. Somehow I was able to watch something pg-13 but not something rated Pg. my house can be a dumb one sometimes
Well……. The movie you’d watch one time MAYBE a few times Sponge Bob is a tv show……. You could easily ‘waste’ hundreds or even thousands of hours on that
@@suprgamr6652 Strange I wouldn’t say Sponge Bob is dirty I would say it’s a stupid cartoon though (most cartoons are) and watching it isn’t conducive towards intellectual development
@@ifbfmto9338 while I agree I don’t really see a guy in a jacket from the nineties in a dance battle to save the universe as intellectual development. Yes, that is a real thing in the first movie lol.
@@suprgamr6652 My point is, a movie you will watch one, two, maybe three times Whereas a show you will probably watch for hundreds of hours, so the cumulative negative effect of the show will be far far greater
Also, was made fun of by my parents, and in school, had a really bad speech impediment, was made to look like a monster to other adults, really had a hard time growing up. Surprised I survived it, and am a normal caring guy.
It's sad and a bit surprising that most of these stories are about severely mentally ill parents. I assumed it's more cases of families having rules that make sense for their situation while being weird for these who live regular lifestyle...
Living with my grandparents right after my mom died. they wouldnt let me season my food or shut my bedroom door after being allowed to do both for many years with my mom
1:43 My mother was raised Jehovahs Witness. No holidays whatsoever: Easter, Christmas, Halloween (Thanksgiving was exempted for some reason). Even birthdays weren’t celebrated. She and her three siblings (my aunts and uncle) couldn’t even attend classmates/friends’ birthdays. My step-great-grandma (I think it was step-grandma) sent a “care package” every Christmas season that contained something for everybody. When my mom decided to have kids (that is, me) she decided that she was going to leave the “religion” and let me live with holidays and birthdays. I celebrated Christmas and Halloween as long as I can remember (there are pictures of my first ever Christmas when I was six months old, including picking a Christmas tree. I was wearing a strawberry cap in the pictures and apparently I lost it the first time I wore it. Couldn’t even walk and I still lost it 😂). 18:05 Similar but not exactly a rule. My dad has hearing loss and works from home a lot. He’s a Site Reliability Engineer for a big-name internet browser company. His hearing loss encompasses the exact vocal range of both my mother and to a certain extent me. So… when mom is speaking to him, she gets a lot of “What?” in response (I do this too, but because I’m watching TH-cam with noise canceling headphones, not because my hearing is bad). However, he seems to be able to hear a mouse fart across the house and then gets angry at one thing or another because us talking in the kitchen or me walking from my room to the bathroom probably about twenty steps away is “distracting” (also because-from what I gather of his screaming obscenities at his laptop-his coworkers are incompetent and don’t know when to not mess with sh!t). As a result, my mother and I feel like we’re walking on eggshells whenever he’s home and working. I purposely turn the volume down when I’m playing video games on the TV because of this (also my mom gets annoyed at some of the sounds the games make. She told me today that Ni No Kuni 2’s soundtrack is repetitive, i.e. annoying). This is also the reason I wear headphones 99% of the time while watching TH-cam.
okay the weirdest rule I had in my house was that me and my sisters had to eat our sandwiches wheat, crust and all before having our chips or soda, I still follow this rule to this day and I don't drink soda anymore cause if I tried to drink soda the fizz would hurt my throat that it felt like I was swallowing spike balls, so I now drink other drinks that aren't soft drinks making this a pain in the tush when going out to eat, and another fun rule was that we only got to go out to eat if something good happened or my dad got a promoted I found out later on in my now 20s that we were poor back then and even when my dad got a new job, we had a tight budget to make it through the months and years, so I now stick to this and make a budget myself when going out to eat, shopping, everything really to save money and have it in a saving account now I look back at it my mom was doing the best she can and was good at doing he finance and the shopping for groceries ( we are from the south and not from Asian if you are all wondering)
@@oddballjake229 I thought so too, I asked my mom of why she made that rule, she explained that her siblings had used to eat snacks before supper and it was bad back then when she was growing up ( my mom was the only one that cooked and her mom, my grandma was at work those days), so yeah it made her sad a lot of people always snacking before having a true meal
when i was little, my 7 bros and 1 sis would ask my mom to open our christmas presents like ten days earlier, but it had to be the smallest gift. another is my mom would make gnomes for holidays and sell them and we had to help, and if we didnt shed make us do her job at work.
then my mom divorced my dad and married another man who was nice on the streets, but abusive and that bastard was gonna get his head beat in. but i actually didn't do that. i called the cops when i heard my parents fight. then the fight turned into sexually assaulting and/or rape to my sister.
The only "weird" rule in my house (according to my friends, mostly because they could) was not having any food or drinks in the bedroom. If you wanted to eat anything, you had to be in the kitchen, dining room, and maybe the living room (it was located right beside the kitchen, and only chips and popcorn was really the acceptable food in there). I understood why we had this rule, though. It was because we had this neighbor who was a slob and had junk piles in his yard, like; piles of old tires, piles of scrap metal, and piles of literal trash that he would burn. It wasn't just small little piles, it was huge mounds of whatever was in the pile. The end result was that we got a mouse problem because of him, and my parents didn't want to attract mice to the bedrooms.
one rule i had growing up was that i wasn’t allowed to eat any foods that were very “sugary” as my parents said. one of the foods i was not allowed to eat was PopTarts. yeah, PopTarts. my parents maybe bought a total of 5 packs in my whole life. When we did have them, my brother and i were only allowed to eat one pack per week. my mom would count the amount of packs left each day and if any were missing she would ask who ate it. in no way could we have sneaked away eating an extra pack. another rule similar was that we just couldn’t eat anything sweet like cake or cookies without the permission of my mom and she would have to watch us eat it or at least grab it, so that after she could count to make sure no more would be taken by ME, or my brother.
As much as it might suck, almost everything (not everything in this story) is legal to do to someone under 18 if they are you’re kids. All they really need is a bed clothes food and water. That’s it and that’s still legal, but if these parents are forcing them on those kids if they are over 18 shame on them.
My parents have this one rule. "5 questions per hour". This was made to prevent me from asking a ton of stupid questions. We eventually stopped as I learned to look things up rather than ask stupid questions.
When I was a child, my parents said it would be best if I date someone Taiwanese. In freshman year, they said it’s ok as long as she is Asian. In my senior year, they said white girls are ok too. Through my 20s, they said any ethnicity is ok as long as she is not black or brown. I am now 34. “What are you doing. Bring home anyone. Seriously. Anyone.”
The wildest rule my parents make me follow is we are only allowed to play video games Saturday, but they are pretty lenient. Sorry for those that had to deal with crazy perents.
videogames only on the weekend should be one more parents should implement, works quite well for teaching self-restraint i love games myself but also know how addictive they can actually be, especially when it's an out of control habit
@@andrewsstories Don't forget that it's fine to take breaks though, I feel like some smaller youtubers forget to do that or think that it isn't fine so I just wanted to say
I’ll never understand the Christian families not doing Halloween entirely I might partly understand the whole dressing up thing, but it’s All Hallows Eve, the first of November being All Hallows Day/All Saints Day. It’s literally a Christian holiday It’s not a sin just because someone dresses up as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Actually my family is Christian, our parents didn't allow us to participate in Halloween. I don't personally find this holiday especially bad or something but I don't like it. 1st of November is a quiet day for memories, prayers for and with them and this kind of stuff. Halloween seems the oposit of this - it has nothing to do with respect for the dead (or mayby I just can't see it). I find Mexican Dia de los Muertos more similar - it is colorful etc. but it is with full respect for their dead family members. Stangely, I enjoy Halloween events in games a lot...
@@kohinattosru8587 I know that, I just mean literally anything in Halloween, I’ve never seen one that acknowledges it’s origin, just what it’s about now
To the not talking during dinner well I kind of get that one. Most men when they get off a really hard day at work basically get home at the time that they literally have time to do a quick was up right fore dinner and when you do a really long day at work you want to rest up a bit just so that your head does not hurt and you can get accustomed to being back home. Seriously men just want to unwind and I admit as a kid I did the kid thing and annoy the crap out of my dad but I tried to be reasonable about it at times and let him have his space. Hell I had my space when I got off school and wanted to unwind so I generally would get home and watched couple shows that I really loved growing up and then went to give my dead his space and I would then do my homework because my shows that I really liked ended when my dad would be getting home. I seriously think that television employees back in the 1990s and early 2000s were extremely smart with understanding how to make kids happy while planning the timing of when the good shows would be on and timing when the average dad would be getting home. Seriously. I would get off school and rush home and right when I got home Rocko's Modern Life was just starting literally giving me time to put my backpack in my room before going to the living room watching that show then giving my dad a few hours to watch his stuff while I did my homework and then be able to play a little bit on the computer and then go to bed generally giving my dad his space when he got off from work. Seriously though kids and wives especially wives a good way to keep a man is simply give him an hour to 3 when he gets off work so his brain can unwind and be able to think again and you will keep him happy.
The weirdest rule in my home growing up was "No closed/locked doors". This was strange to me as my parents closed there doors all the time, so why we weren't aloud to I'll never know. What made it even more odd was how inconsistent the rule was. I remember multiple occasions where our doors were closed and they didn't seem to care. They would allow it off and on which was more confusing than it was strange.
My dad had weird rule that if we were getting spanked (when we were kids) and we cried, he would yell "quit crying or i'll give you something to cry about." which, only made me cry more, so more spanking. It was probably one of the worst memories of my childhood.
No fighting So in a family full of brothers fighting is a pretty common thing but we were not allowed to fight at all once we got a month of electronic ban no tv phone or computer and I was not even part of the fight another dumb rule which was one for all all for one I was affected badly bc I did nothing and was punished because of that
This group punishment is always unfair... One of my siblings had blame me for about a month for my mom's dumb decision. Luckily they finally understood that mom's choice wasn't my fault and we can talk and grab some cakes like we used to. Mom also understood that it was wrong :) Maybe it was a bit my fault - if my younger siblings got in trouble I used to reveal my participation in "crime". This way they got lighter punishment. Maybe mom was too accustomed to punishing more than one child at the time...
Well since my mom and dad are separated my rule from my dad was "don't get caught no matter what you do" and for my my it was "do not become addicted to drugs or alcohol" which I'm fine with both bc they go very well together 😏
We used to have a rule because of a person who used to come round and wasn’t exactly the nicest of people who also happened to be an escaped mental asylum prisoner (we didn’t know this until we saw it on the news). We had to run into the kitchen and hide in the quiet until she left. It was terrifying
i wish my parents were more trusting when i would have a girlfriend. it really is embarrassing whenever i had a girl over not just my girlfriend any girl and they would poll them to the side tell them that i was a sex addict when i was not. it was worse when i literally only hangout with girls
Weirdest rule my family had was that my mother didn't like us kids watching Spongebob, so it was completely banned. Just Spongebob too, not any of the other retrospectively weird as fuck cartoons that were on back in the early 2000s. Fortunately, dad was able to talk her out of it after showing her a few episodes, so that only lasted a year or two.
My household has a rule that is 'if Ur not fat Ur unhealthy' I never believed this rule and my parents got rlly mad when I questioned them, I'm not fat and I don't rlly think that being fat means u r healthy but idk. So yea that was one of the stupidest rules There was also another rule which was 'u can't eat any ice cream in summer or in winter' and I started to wonder when will I be able to get ice cream again, I ofc bought ice cream secretly something ( like 4-5 times a year sometimes even 2-3 )
I have the same rule at 18:08 or #25 Edit: except I don’t get to respond and if I say what I get screamed at and they lecture me about how I only care about myself and my video games and nothing else
Grandma had 3 foster kids (whom she ended up adopting). In talking with one of them, the topic of Pokémon came up. I don't play, but have a general idea what it's all about. He tells me that he was told that those cards were evil or something, and I calmly reply that "That's stupid. They're just part of a card game." Then started viciously mocking the idea that it even could be good or evil. What I DIDN'T know is that it was Grandma who had told him that Pokémon was evil... and she was sitting in the same room as us. Apparently, I did a good enough job getting my point across that the kids were from that point forward allowed to play Pokémon. Thinking back, it probably came from my mother as the church we attended fell into the whole hysteria regarding D&D and video games. For those of you who didn't live through the 90's, let me just say that there's a reason that so many of my generation have a problem with religion.
You are really lucky if you grew up in a mexican household. Also, if have any of these issues, convince your parents that you dont feel happy with this rule and want to remove it so everyone can relax.
The one that said their father extremely abusive but they still, "Loved him unconditionally" is super fucked. Never understand how people can give a shit about people that would treat them that way.
My mom had some stupid rules, some of which I knew were stupid just cause she couldn't even follow her own rules and others I didn't realize how stupid they were till I went to friend's houses and they questioned why I couldn't do certain things. Like I wasn't allowed to handle a knife at all. My steaks at home were always pre-cut for me before I ever saw them. The first time I was given a steak that wasn't already cut I was I kid you not... 13 and at a friends house who's parents were not expecting to have to pre-cut a steak for a teenager. They stopped cutting food for their own kids when they were about 7. Part of the reason we had this rule is because my brother is mentally disabled and he doesn't understand how dangerous knives can be if not used properly. It was easier to have the same rule for both of us rather than try to explain to him why his little brother can safely handle a steak knife but he can't so neither of us were allowed to use a knife ever. I also couldn't put certain things in the washing machine cause my mom thought the snap buttons would some how break the machine. I've had multiple people offer to wash my cloths for me if they have snap buttons because they found out my mom won't let me wash them at home and they stink after never being washed. Apperently older machines were made of porciline and actually could break from certain hard materials beating around in there but newer machines haven't been made of porciline since the 70's so the risk is none existent anymore but my mom still enforced that rule. I had a bed time that was earlier than any other kid in my grade but it kind of balanced out cause other kids bed time was enforced every night while my bed time only applied on school nights. If it was the weekend or summer vacation I could stay up as late as I wanted. She even got mad when I stayed after school for rehersal and they kept us up past 10 cause she seemed to automatically assume everyone had the same 8pm bed time I did. In fact I actually thought it was a legal requirement till I realized she made up the rule herself and got made when other people didn't enforce the same made up rule she did. I remember days when we got sent to bed before the sun even went down and we were too young to tell time or understand what daylight savings time was so we'd just be really confused why bed time moved to when there was still sun light out for half the year. Eventually she pushed bed time back 1 hour just so we'd stop complaining about going to bed before it was even night out but we never got any kind of extention after that. I wasn't allowed to take a bath by myself because she thought I'd drown in less than 1 inch of water which is pretty much only true if you're talking about an infant being left unattended. I didn't take a shower on my own till I was 10 and even then she'd find some excuse to barge in on me unnounced even when I was in high school to the point of making me afraid to actually take a shower cause I didn't feel like I had any privacy or any concern that I even needed privacy cause "She use to change my diapers there for that makes it Ok" to this day I still only shower at night when everyone else is asleep cause I'm parnoid someone will walk in on me even if there is a lock on the door because my mom once picked the lock from the outside just to show me it wasn't going to stop her. I freak out if anyone even walks past the bathroom door or my bedroom door. I don't have an issue with my dad cause he freaking knocks and doesn't just barge in unannounced. But my mom honestly, if the gender roles were reversed and a father did any of the same things to a daughter he would have been arrested but some how when it's a mother and son people just think it's a bit creepy and accuse me of over reacting. I thought all parents were like that for the longest time because I seemed to be the only person really bothered by it until I realized that men could actually face criminal charges for doing the exact same things to their daughters that my mother had been doing to me. So not only was it a stupid rule but it was also a lame excuse for my mom to sexually harass her own son. Really no one should be bathing their kids once they reach a point when they can dress themselves. They should be given privacy as soon as possible otherwise your just going to end up with kids who hate baths and showers cause their parents are creepy child predators.
I don’t really have that many rules but I have two big ones “don’t burn the house down and don’t open the door for anyone” so I say my life is pretty good right now
Okay the rule that u shouldn't move, speak or give any indication that your home isn't so bad especially if you do that and you actually managed to avoid opening the door on several not so good people because of it, it has its perks, its an oversimplified version of "don't open the door to strangers"
Soda pop OP said that if the dad finds out he gets pissed and don't talk for a month...well that's not too back TBH, he could get pissed and never come back.
My parents are strict on videogames: 20 minutes per person (there are four of us, me the eldest at 15, going down from 13, 12, and 9. But the rule is : "You have 20 minutes to play whatever you want and then it's the next Persons turn but you have to in the 20 minute limit complete the game fully all side quests unlockables, and side missions. IMPOSSIBLE TO DO IT AND YET THAT RULE STARTED WITH MINECRAFT!!! (we didn't know that there was a end to the game being the End.)
This wasn’t really a rule but every time I would start crying when I was younger my mom would send me to my room no matter my reason for crying. I say “when I was younger” because I rarely cry anymore
My dad says I can't say hate because it's “too strong” of a word and yet they say I am allowed to say any cuss but the f-word or just get a small yelling if I say any cuss word.
This probably isn't that weird, but my guardian won't let me eat in my bedroom because of bugs. And my dad won't let me or my siblings play games that have anything to do with violence (major violence, that is. He does let us do Pokemon), like Cuphead, Undertale, DDLC, and even my absolute favorite of all time, FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN. (That last one was because of a cuss word. I'd forgotten about the curse word before I put the video on, and when I did and the word came up, my stepmom came in and BANNED US FROM TH-cam FOR A LONG WHILE. You heard me right! OH and he also won't let me play Among Us. )
Not eating in your room is common rule. Not playing video games is also a common rule. Also, TH-cam or any tv is terrible for kids. I grew up playing violent video games lol. Got cod at like 9 years old gta even younger
My parents forbade me from watching kid shows and made me watch what they wanted me to watch which was crime stuff and romance stuff, I always zoned out when the shows were about romantic stuff and just sometimes played games in my room till the shows were over, but I found a glitch in the system that allowed me to watch my favorite shows, an awesome sibling that would distract my mom with shopping reasons while my dad was away for work
I was not allowed to leave the house outside of school and chores, at all. Oh you want to go to a friends house to do schoolwork? No. Want to just sit down outside and relax? No. Severely injured and need to go to the hospital? Maybe, if you are willing to be punished.
I don’t really have anything like this, but my grandma is always coming up with more and more reasons why I don’t talk to her. 1. She’s annoying as fuck 2. That’s pretty much it, but yeah, she’s annoying in every way I’m gonna start this off by saying I have autism, which is one of things that these are based on. When I come home from school, I go to my grandparents house, because my mom is a teacher in another district and I’m not yet old enough to be home by myself. I usually have my earbuds in, so it’s hard to hear what people are saying. When I come into the house, my grandma immediately wants to talk about my day. I want to finish my song/album, leave me alone. When I come in, I set my stuff down on a couch in this nice little front room where no one else usually is (we call it the piano room, because it has a piano; grandparents usually sit in their own chairs in living room). 7-8 hours of walking and writing is really physically and mentally tiring, and I just want to relax. Yet my grandma continuously tries to talk to me. She also thinks I’ve become “more autistic” since I got diagnosed. Like it’s an excuse or something. More reasons why I eventually want to never talk to her again: 1. She insists on me saying goodbye to her whenever I leave the car when she drops me off at places. Like literally- “Bye, sweet girl!” (I hate being called things like that) *silence from me* (now, more forcefully,) “Bye, (name)!” I usually just shut the car door. I also never sit in the front seat with her, it’s too close for me. 2. She is very Christian. I have nothing wrong with my family’s religious beliefs, I just am not as focused on god or whatever exists as she is. Like sometimes, when she’s dropping me off somewhere (again) she forces me to stay in the car, hold her hand (please no, I don’t like that) and she says a prayer. Like for god’s sake, I’m trying to get to my choir rehearsal. Let me leave. Also being closeted doesn’t help. 3. Stereotypical time: she thinks that the reason why I never talk to her was because of my phone. And that was also the same time as my autism diagnosis. I wonder how that’s connected. mAyBe My PhOnE mAdE mE aUtIsTiC aNd GaY, dEfInItElY nOt BeCaUsE oF aCtUaL sElF dIsCoVeRy! aNd ThAtS wHy I iGnOrE hEr, NoT bEcAuSe I’m A tEeNaGeR (maybe my phone made me autistic and gay, definitely not because of actual self discovery! And that’s why I ignore her, definitely not because I’m a teenager) Long story short, my annoying stereotyping homophobic grandma is desperate for attention from me, and comes up with shit reasons to why I don’t talk to her. I can’t wait for the day when I fully come out to my family as omni, and see the look on my grandmas face as she realizes that she’s either gonna have to accept her granddaughter, or finally leave me alone. And then when I come out as genderflux, she’s gonna have to not call me her granddaughter anymore. Also, does anyone know any gender neutral names for things like that that aren’t just sibling, parent, grandchild, etc. It could be nice for me lol
So the car gas and oil ledgers actually are a really good idea because doing that would give you a perfect understanding of what to do with your car and if your car has problems believe it or not you can easily let your mechanic look at the ledger and they will be able to use that data to give you a far better rate for car maintenance and when you need service and repairs on your vehicle most mechanics actually have to attempt to perform a rough estimate of that data anyway and if you have how often you put oil in the car and how much and what type and brand and what you do with your gas as well your mechanic will give you pointers and be so thankful that you have that data because it literally makes their job a billion times easier. I knew a guy who kept that type of list and the Jiffy Lube employees would actually give him free oil changes because it made their jobs so much easier to do that and it gave them time to actually read threw his data and get a far better estimates on other vehicles and they wished more people did that because it made their jobs so beyond easier. Allowing you to understand how much you spend on car work and what it takes to keep your car working perfectly is actually good and even if you do not fully use the data the guy who works on your vehicle in the shop will look at it and actually give you discounts because it makes their job so beyond easier.
My family just didn't have money for consoles, since we had to have a computer anyway. And, honestly? Much happier to have grown up on the sheer creativity and gameplay variety of PC games. I didn't discover PCMR, I was born in it, raised by it lol.
My mom had 1 solid rule in the house, she'd say "don't get hurt, or I'll kill you" the last part was obviously a joke and I knew that from the first time she said the line. Dark humor is something I grew up with and still love.
I hope things are going well for you now friend
@@dr.villager they are thanks
"don't get hurt or i'll kill you"
*_You didn't have to cut me off (blaccmass) make it like it never happened and it probably meant nothing_*
Hi
My brother would say don't get hurt or he'll get mad I thought it was funny
I was an only child. My father had a rule that I couldn't use any appliances if I didn't own them. You know, fun stuff like the washing machine or the stove. Nope, off limits.
He did make exceptions for the microwave, VCR, DVD player, TV, basically things that I knew how to fix if they quit working. But heaven forbid I use the washing machine, despite the fact the school threatened to suspend me for not having clean socks.
Edit: To make such matters even worse, I was only allowed to bathe twice a week, 3 times if I was lucky enough to get muddy on a rainy day.
Oh boy my childhood was fun... /s
I always asked to "borrow the phone" at home. We had landline and it was even weird for my parents. They told me not to ask, but I always did.
does that include the sink? no washing dishes? what about vacuuming… id say thats pretty lucky
aside from the tv, hygiene, and washing your clothes part
@@iam_emkay For about the last 3 to 5 years of my father's life, no washing dishes or vacuum cleaner either. I was an adult by this point though and was living at my mother's, who actually does let me do such things.
The kitchen water at my dad's didn't work for his last few years, there was a leak under the trailer and he shut the valve off to that end of the trailer. He wouldn't allow me to go under the trailer to fix it either, dunno why because I would have been glad to. He just basically used disposable plates and bottles and TV dinners and stuff.
For his last 5 years or so, he wouldn't allow vacuuming either. He already had a mass in his right lung for the past 10 years or so and refused surgery, so he was concerned he would get much sicker rapidly if we stirred up the dust.
Unfortunately he was absolutely right too, after he passed in 2014, I ended up vacuuming the entire place 5 times before I didn't see much dust coming into the bagless vacuum. Yes, 5 whole vacuuming sessions, the carpet was THAT dirty! And sure enough, I ended up with a bad case of the flu from doing that. I know for a fact he was right, that sh!t would have killed him much sooner if we had vacuumed while he was still alive.
Why was he that way? I dunno, partly stubborn, partly paranoid, partly crazy... 🤷♂️
There's a friend of mine that everyone bathed the same day and had to use the same bath water....gross huh.
@@NatashaWinland Oof, I hear ya there, that sounds horrible!
I grew up in an extremely lenient household so there weren't that many rules, let alone weird ones, but the closest one I had to a "weird" rule was that the WiFi had to be off while we slept, and by "we" I mean my mom. This practically ensured that I couldn't play (most) videogames past, let's say, 12am, even without a specific rule against them. It's not even for power saving reasons, but rather because my mom is concerned about the WiFi waves disturbing our sleep. Meanwhile my friend's house has wifi with internet speeds more than 10x that of mine and yet they don't seem concerned.
Yea makes total sense
well it can cause problems like increasing the likelihood of cancer and other stuff if an emitter is to close to you. but i don't think it would effect sleep much
@@pdfoltin5076 incorrect
@@ChristhegeekHD what's incorrect i cant do any thing if all you say is incorrect
I'm using my mom's account right now, and she made the same rule, for the same reason.
PS:- Dislike this comment to annoy her.
the strangest things I experienced in my childhood was that I wasn't allowed to take anything out of the kitchen or cook in it. I'm not allowed to dress myself, which often leads to the misunderstanding that my friends ask me if I'm gay. Even the people in my class sometimes ask me these specific question. Also, I'm not allowed to hang up Paintings or rearrange anything in my room. My mom said to me when I was about 6ish I'm not allowed to bring anyone to my home. She still says that after more than 10 years.
That's just borderline abusive 💀
Rule: "All pants off at 19.00 before going to grandpa's room."
Basically, we played a lot outside and got really dirty. We ruined a lot of clothes and dirtied furniture and didn't care. So in stead of my family saying that we should not make the furniture dirty or soiling stuff by changing clothes, which we never did anyways, we were told "all pants were off at 19.00". also, obviously 19.00 was the latest we were allowed to play outside. We always played outside. And, once we got our food, we ALWAYS visited grandpa in his room because he was our favourite person. He had his own WORM farm that he fed milksoaked oats and he was making fish fly stuff so yeah, awesome!
We NEVER thought it was weird until people started with awkward faces when retelling our regular evening routines...
Did he do weird stuff to you?
@@georgehall1826 obviously some people would think that growing a worm farm for fishing was pretty weird but usually we just performed jokes, reciting poetry and read stories to eachother! Grandpa and grandma were the coolest. We were always demanding their attention. Grandpa allowed us to go on a camping trip in the living room and he built us a frekkin tree hut with two floors in the forest. He had a small inflatable boat that he named with champagne and let us float about in the water whist tied from shore by a rope. He made the whole family dress up like pirates and we all hunted for treasure. So yeah.. back in the day he was not weird he was goat.
@@qine6559
You had a very weird grandpa. He was too wholesome by today's standards. /s
@@qine6559 that sounds incredibly fun! I would have loved that as a child.
@@georgehall1826 way to make a nice story gross. The pants came off bc the grandfather didn’t want dirty furniture and he was being gracious.
I would say one rule we have in the house would be that the oldest sibling does all the chores in the house and the younger one doesn't have to do much. (Example the younger sibling would only have to take out the trash once a week and that is enough to not do anything else, but the older sibling would have to do the dishes about 6-7 days a week the only time they don't have to do it is if we went out for dinner, all the laundry in the house, cleaning all the bathrooms by themselves, vacuum every room in the house, have to dust of every photo shelves and what not, mop the floors by hand because our parents want the floor to shine, depending on the room you had to would take almost 2 1/2 hours with no break and there are others things to do throughout the house as well.) Now when the older sibling moves out the next older sibling takes over, to give an idea I'm the middle child but I would do more the minimum amount so now that my older brother left, I have to pick up everything he did, but I don't struggle thanks to what I had done years before hand. Now for the best part my little brother he does absolutely nothing he does the bare minimum, but I will be leaving soon and now he has to do everything on his own, he should have listened to my advice instead of treating me like shit for the last few years. By the way if you are still reading this, this is just one of the rules we have.
Damn
@RANBOOdls so then you understand the sweet victory of telling someone you told them what would happen if they didn't behave or listen to others. (Referring to my little brother due he doesn't listen or cares about hearing warnings)
Why didn't any of the oldest persons just say no tho?
9:05, my dad also said something like that, but he isn't exactly against Halloween. My mom on the other hand just thinks about how fun the trick or treating was back when she was outside of our native country. (Our native country doesn't celebrate Halloween, but my school does).
One of my art teachers also gave a whole lecture on how we must avoid evil spirits and how Halloween attracts evil spirits.
Fun Note: Halloween was first a harvest thing where people thought that ghosts and evil spirits would eat their crops so they gave out food to them so they wouldn't eat their crops. So Halloween was meant to be a something to get rid of spirits?
The costumes are to blend in with the demons and spirits that are supposed to appear on Halloween. The spirits will appear whether you celebrate the holiday or not.
@@timothyswanson8773 You're full of crap.
@MetaKnight964 "On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits."
Literally the first thing you read if you look up "Halloween Costume History". The next time you think, DON'T!
Not to mention that now it’s kids wearing costumes, many times not even scary, yet some parents freak out. They’re probably the same people that made up stories about poison or razors in the candy. I’ve never heard of any story, substantiated or not about this happening. It was more like rhetoric.
And if you’re an adult female, it’s about dressing provocatively 1 night a year. 😉
Some many of these parents mentioned in these stories should never have been allowed to have kids....or take care of kids.....or be within 20 feet of them
ANYWAYS, my dad made a rule that you can't hit someone in the nuts if you're in the living room. Doesn't matter which house we're in either, if its a living room the rule applies. I don't even remember why this rule was implimented, but now its like an inside joke for my family
He sounds like an absolute chad
Why just the living room? It seems like you'd just get ambushed the second you went into the hallway. Actually that was probably the respawn point XD
@@Quick15 Having only 2 kids in the house meant it wasn't very common, but not very rare either
What if they didn’t have nuts? What would happen then?
@@cola081 That has never come up, but I will let you know if it does
That one where the mum kept her kids at home every last Friday of the month, made me sad… I feel sorry for her. I was on the verge of crying 😢
I wasn't allowed friends growing up. Yeah.
I had a couple secret freinds, but if me parents found out I would be grounded - banned from leaving the house for months (happened twice)
Not even to school.
Social Services knew. Didn't care. Me brother and sister were allowed friends- just not me. No idea why.
Anyway, not spoke to me parents in 17 years - have tons of friends now :)
I have a friend named duke. His parents also say he can’t have friends. I feel really bad about it
The man said soda was crunchy 😂 7:33
3:06 ok this is relatable but it’s different. Until I was about 9 and not living on my moms side of the family as much anymore, I was never allowed in the kitchen while they were cooking dinner. Also that reminds me, while I was eating I got full and didn’t want to eat dinner anymore and have leftovers the next day. But what happened was my step-dad was already in a bad mood, and when I said I was full, he SHOVED A F**K TON OF SPAGHETTI INTO MY MOUTH, FORK SCRAPING MY THROAT AND ALL. And I just sat there crying, told my mom, and THEY DIDNT BELIEVE ME… also we were forced to play in the playroom and couldn’t use electronics very much. (an hour a day) And if we complained that we were bored of the playroom and didn’t want to play with toys anymore, it was the same “go play” answer like before. Also we were FORCED TO CLEAN UP A FLOOR FULL OF TOYS… I am SO THANKFUL to live in a different household with more freedom. However, they’ve gotten their act together and are more allowing (yay good ending)
Wow, You would think the wife would have said something about the asshole dad that excluded his daughter from everything and told her he never wanted her. That's straight up child abuse. Most women who won't stick up for themselves will at least stick up for their kids.
My mother HATED us eating ice cream if it wasn't summer.not only in the house but outside too.She believed ice cream makes me and my brother sick ,but when i started highschool i realize this rule was dumb and i started to rebel by eating ice cream any chance i get.When she find out she get freak out and told me if i got sick,never come to me to tell,but i never got sick once,however when i actually got sick she imidietly blame me for ,you guest it,eating too much ice cream.
My father on the other hand,never let me or brother from buying any kind of video game,he says its a waste of money and not wort it at all.free to play game was fine,even pirating those game was fine.for years i never tried pirate games because majority of them was viruses,my brother on the other hand always dowloaded viruses and ends up broke his or my pc time to time.
finally after got into a part time job i decided to purchase a video game.but first i told my decision to my farther for some reason.He tried his best to convince me to not buy it at all cost,he even offered to buy that game with HİS money just so i won't be the one who buyed.
but i stick to my decision and finally purchased that game.and now im an official gamer
One of us. but seriously the no ice cream thing for that reasoning makes no sense, and i can kinda see the logic of it being a waste of money but it's for entertainment so as long as you're enjoying yourself it shouldn't matter what you spend your money on(cept illegal stuff) so good on you for sticking to your guns and buying it yourself.
@The Gamer are you sure it is a game,and where i can buy myself,i'm kinda thirsty right now
@The Gamer Support your game devs, if you don't want to support them don't play their game. Some as, simple is.
Okay to be fair, I get the "no answering the door for unannounced visitors" mom. That's the most annoying shit ever. They either want free food, money, or to case the joint and see if you've got anything valuable.
I have a similar rule too
The mom sounds like someone with a dangerous past that keeps
Finding her....
Raised with four sisters (all older), wasn't allowed to have a door on my bedroom until I was 17. Left for the military as soon as I graduated.
This rule didn't apply to your sisters, I guess?
The door thing in any family is messed up. Some exceptions tho, like my dad, didn't have a room growing up so of course, he didn't have a door.
Maybe the only "strange" rule that I had (single child) was being allowed to eat chips only once a month and now from a grown up perspective I know why my parents made that rule and it was because it's not healthy at all! My stomach hurts if I eat too much, even a normal bag is too much sometimes when it comes to chips for me now but it's okay tbh, there's only 2 flavours that I like anyway. Because of that rule I quickly stopped eating most of the junk food you can buy and im not fazed by it at all, in hindsight it was a good rule.
Honestly your parents are the best for that rule
While it's not terrible, the reason you get a stomach ache when eating chips is probably because you never built up a tolerance. For instance, when I turn 21, my parents are going to take me out drinking so that I can try different kinds of alcohol, and make sure I don't do anything stupid or get blackout drunk. Basically, every now and then just eat almost the stomach ache amount of chips, and keep increasing the amount of you ever feel like you might eventually want to eat a lot of chips. Also, tortilla chips are much healthier than potato chips, though slightly more bland.
@@thekingnerd6639 I don't think you build up a tolerance for chips that just sounds dumb to me.
@@MakamaFEET you can build up a tolerance to anything, your body just gets used to processing whatever substance and gets better at it, like learning a language. Now, if you eat too much, say, sugar, you get diabetes, unlike learning a language.
@@thekingnerd6639lol
Based on the historical activities, I can see why Halloween is called the devil's holiday, but based on the origins of its name, it's literally an event to celebrate holy figures.
There isn’t much of a story here but it’s still a really dumb rule. When I was around eight I wasn’t allowed to watch sponge bob but later I would watch the second guardians of the galaxy movie. Somehow I was able to watch something pg-13 but not something rated Pg. my house can be a dumb one sometimes
Well…….
The movie you’d watch one time
MAYBE a few times
Sponge Bob is a tv show……. You could easily ‘waste’ hundreds or even thousands of hours on that
@@ifbfmto9338 mom said sponge bob was “too dirty”.
@@suprgamr6652 Strange
I wouldn’t say Sponge Bob is dirty
I would say it’s a stupid cartoon though (most cartoons are) and watching it isn’t conducive towards intellectual development
@@ifbfmto9338 while I agree I don’t really see a guy in a jacket from the nineties in a dance battle to save the universe as intellectual development. Yes, that is a real thing in the first movie lol.
@@suprgamr6652 My point is, a movie you will watch one, two, maybe three times
Whereas a show you will probably watch for hundreds of hours, so the cumulative negative effect of the show will be far far greater
Also, was made fun of by my parents, and in school, had a really bad speech impediment, was made to look like a monster to other adults, really had a hard time growing up. Surprised I survived it, and am a normal caring guy.
18:21 this is too relatable (moms side of the family) also we had to say yes sir/ma’am. Thankfully they act like PARENTS now!
It's sad and a bit surprising that most of these stories are about severely mentally ill parents. I assumed it's more cases of families having rules that make sense for their situation while being weird for these who live regular lifestyle...
Living with my grandparents right after my mom died. they wouldnt let me season my food or shut my bedroom door after being allowed to do both for many years with my mom
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My mother was raised Jehovahs Witness. No holidays whatsoever: Easter, Christmas, Halloween (Thanksgiving was exempted for some reason). Even birthdays weren’t celebrated. She and her three siblings (my aunts and uncle) couldn’t even attend classmates/friends’ birthdays. My step-great-grandma (I think it was step-grandma) sent a “care package” every Christmas season that contained something for everybody. When my mom decided to have kids (that is, me) she decided that she was going to leave the “religion” and let me live with holidays and birthdays. I celebrated Christmas and Halloween as long as I can remember (there are pictures of my first ever Christmas when I was six months old, including picking a Christmas tree. I was wearing a strawberry cap in the pictures and apparently I lost it the first time I wore it. Couldn’t even walk and I still lost it 😂).
18:05
Similar but not exactly a rule. My dad has hearing loss and works from home a lot. He’s a Site Reliability Engineer for a big-name internet browser company. His hearing loss encompasses the exact vocal range of both my mother and to a certain extent me. So… when mom is speaking to him, she gets a lot of “What?” in response (I do this too, but because I’m watching TH-cam with noise canceling headphones, not because my hearing is bad). However, he seems to be able to hear a mouse fart across the house and then gets angry at one thing or another because us talking in the kitchen or me walking from my room to the bathroom probably about twenty steps away is “distracting” (also because-from what I gather of his screaming obscenities at his laptop-his coworkers are incompetent and don’t know when to not mess with sh!t). As a result, my mother and I feel like we’re walking on eggshells whenever he’s home and working. I purposely turn the volume down when I’m playing video games on the TV because of this (also my mom gets annoyed at some of the sounds the games make. She told me today that Ni No Kuni 2’s soundtrack is repetitive, i.e. annoying). This is also the reason I wear headphones 99% of the time while watching TH-cam.
okay the weirdest rule I had in my house was that me and my sisters had to eat our sandwiches wheat, crust and all before having our chips or soda, I still follow this rule to this day and I don't drink soda anymore cause if I tried to drink soda the fizz would hurt my throat that it felt like I was swallowing spike balls, so I now drink other drinks that aren't soft drinks making this a pain in the tush when going out to eat, and another fun rule was that we only got to go out to eat if something good happened or my dad got a promoted I found out later on in my now 20s that we were poor back then and even when my dad got a new job, we had a tight budget to make it through the months and years, so I now stick to this and make a budget myself when going out to eat, shopping, everything really to save money and have it in a saving account now I look back at it my mom was doing the best she can and was good at doing he finance and the shopping for groceries ( we are from the south and not from Asian if you are all wondering)
@@oddballjake229 I thought so too, I asked my mom of why she made that rule, she explained that her siblings had used to eat snacks before supper and it was bad back then when she was growing up ( my mom was the only one that cooked and her mom, my grandma was at work those days), so yeah it made her sad a lot of people always snacking before having a true meal
Story 14, the mother should know that Halloween, originaly Hallows eve, was to ward of evil spirits.
Bruh my stepdad laughs at me sometimes for not doing sketchy shit lmfao
when i was little, my 7 bros and 1 sis would ask my mom to open our christmas presents like ten days earlier, but it had to be the smallest gift. another is my mom would make gnomes for holidays and sell them and we had to help, and if we didnt shed make us do her job at work.
and another rule, in my house, the only vehicle brand that we could have was audi.
then my mom divorced my dad and married another man who was nice on the streets, but abusive and that bastard was gonna get his head beat in. but i actually didn't do that. i called the cops when i heard my parents fight. then the fight turned into sexually assaulting and/or rape to my sister.
The only "weird" rule in my house (according to my friends, mostly because they could) was not having any food or drinks in the bedroom. If you wanted to eat anything, you had to be in the kitchen, dining room, and maybe the living room (it was located right beside the kitchen, and only chips and popcorn was really the acceptable food in there). I understood why we had this rule, though. It was because we had this neighbor who was a slob and had junk piles in his yard, like; piles of old tires, piles of scrap metal, and piles of literal trash that he would burn. It wasn't just small little piles, it was huge mounds of whatever was in the pile. The end result was that we got a mouse problem because of him, and my parents didn't want to attract mice to the bedrooms.
That's a common rule for a child
There is only one rule in my house: do your work and when your done do whatever. That’s the one rule I have and I am not complaining.
Am I the only one who has this rule?
if by work you mean homework no i'm sure alot of kids had this kind of rule
@@zombiegod34 yup I mean homework and college related stuff
one rule i had growing up was that i wasn’t allowed to eat any foods that were very “sugary” as my parents said. one of the foods i was not allowed to eat was PopTarts. yeah, PopTarts. my parents maybe bought a total of 5 packs in my whole life. When we did have them, my brother and i were only allowed to eat one pack per week. my mom would count the amount of packs left each day and if any were missing she would ask who ate it. in no way could we have sneaked away eating an extra pack. another rule similar was that we just couldn’t eat anything sweet like cake or cookies without the permission of my mom and she would have to watch us eat it or at least grab it, so that after she could count to make sure no more would be taken by ME, or my brother.
PopTarts are basically cake, so...yeah. My parents were the same way; it's probably why we didn't grow up fat.
The one with the kids dad being abusive to their mom and them, made me feel really bad for them.
soda pops one sounds straight out of a movie 💀
As much as it might suck, almost everything (not everything in this story) is legal to do to someone under 18 if they are you’re kids. All they really need is a bed clothes food and water. That’s it and that’s still legal, but if these parents are forcing them on those kids if they are over 18 shame on them.
My parents have this one rule. "5 questions per hour". This was made to prevent me from asking a ton of stupid questions. We eventually stopped as I learned to look things up rather than ask stupid questions.
When I was a child, my parents said it would be best if I date someone Taiwanese. In freshman year, they said it’s ok as long as she is Asian. In my senior year, they said white girls are ok too. Through my 20s, they said any ethnicity is ok as long as she is not black or brown.
I am now 34. “What are you doing. Bring home anyone. Seriously. Anyone.”
Parents are overgrowth childs. Glad mine is fine.
8:54 I had the same rule, got away with it by singing “Shut Up and Dance With Me” lol
The wildest rule my parents make me follow is we are only allowed to play video games Saturday, but they are pretty lenient. Sorry for those that had to deal with crazy perents.
That very understandable.
videogames only on the weekend should be one more parents should implement, works quite well for teaching self-restraint
i love games myself but also know how addictive they can actually be, especially when it's an out of control habit
Bro is fighting soda pop since college HAHAHAHAHA
just keep uploading daily and you'll be up there in no time
Will do!
@@andrewsstories Don't forget that it's fine to take breaks though, I feel like some smaller youtubers forget to do that or think that it isn't fine so I just wanted to say
@@Azoperoa I completely agree. It’s tough work.
I started laughing when I noticed in. The game play he could get the axe from under the desk 5:05
Story 5 pisses me off because the mom thinks that any sort of love will make the world explode
I’ll never understand the Christian families not doing Halloween entirely
I might partly understand the whole dressing up thing, but it’s All Hallows Eve, the first of November being All Hallows Day/All Saints Day.
It’s literally a Christian holiday
It’s not a sin just because someone dresses up as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Actually my family is Christian, our parents didn't allow us to participate in Halloween. I don't personally find this holiday especially bad or something but I don't like it. 1st of November is a quiet day for memories, prayers for and with them and this kind of stuff. Halloween seems the oposit of this - it has nothing to do with respect for the dead (or mayby I just can't see it). I find Mexican Dia de los Muertos more similar - it is colorful etc. but it is with full respect for their dead family members.
Stangely, I enjoy Halloween events in games a lot...
@@kohinattosru8587 I know that, I just mean literally anything in Halloween, I’ve never seen one that acknowledges it’s origin, just what it’s about now
@@holyelephantmg8838 Origins are creepy to me XD But I have nothing against skeletons and sweets. I think lots of people are overreacting
To the not talking during dinner well I kind of get that one. Most men when they get off a really hard day at work basically get home at the time that they literally have time to do a quick was up right fore dinner and when you do a really long day at work you want to rest up a bit just so that your head does not hurt and you can get accustomed to being back home. Seriously men just want to unwind and I admit as a kid I did the kid thing and annoy the crap out of my dad but I tried to be reasonable about it at times and let him have his space. Hell I had my space when I got off school and wanted to unwind so I generally would get home and watched couple shows that I really loved growing up and then went to give my dead his space and I would then do my homework because my shows that I really liked ended when my dad would be getting home. I seriously think that television employees back in the 1990s and early 2000s were extremely smart with understanding how to make kids happy while planning the timing of when the good shows would be on and timing when the average dad would be getting home. Seriously. I would get off school and rush home and right when I got home Rocko's Modern Life was just starting literally giving me time to put my backpack in my room before going to the living room watching that show then giving my dad a few hours to watch his stuff while I did my homework and then be able to play a little bit on the computer and then go to bed generally giving my dad his space when he got off from work. Seriously though kids and wives especially wives a good way to keep a man is simply give him an hour to 3 when he gets off work so his brain can unwind and be able to think again and you will keep him happy.
My mom had a rule i couldn't talk to my dad when he got home i would have to wait 30min
The weirdest rule in my home growing up was "No closed/locked doors". This was strange to me as my parents closed there doors all the time, so why we weren't aloud to I'll never know. What made it even more odd was how inconsistent the rule was. I remember multiple occasions where our doors were closed and they didn't seem to care. They would allow it off and on which was more confusing than it was strange.
jesus christ this is just r/insaneparents
My dad had weird rule that if we were getting spanked (when we were kids) and we cried, he would yell "quit crying or i'll give you something to cry about." which, only made me cry more, so more spanking. It was probably one of the worst memories of my childhood.
A lot of those are extremely sad because of the childhood these people had to go through. God damn, I have a renewed appreciation of my normal family.
No fighting
So in a family full of brothers fighting is a pretty common thing but we were not allowed to fight at all once we got a month of electronic ban no tv phone or computer and I was not even part of the fight another dumb rule which was one for all all for one
I was affected badly bc I did nothing and was punished because of that
This group punishment is always unfair... One of my siblings had blame me for about a month for my mom's dumb decision. Luckily they finally understood that mom's choice wasn't my fault and we can talk and grab some cakes like we used to. Mom also understood that it was wrong :)
Maybe it was a bit my fault - if my younger siblings got in trouble I used to reveal my participation in "crime". This way they got lighter punishment. Maybe mom was too accustomed to punishing more than one child at the time...
Well since my mom and dad are separated my rule from my dad was "don't get caught no matter what you do" and for my my it was "do not become addicted to drugs or alcohol" which I'm fine with both bc they go very well together 😏
We used to have a rule because of a person who used to come round and wasn’t exactly the nicest of people who also happened to be an escaped mental asylum prisoner (we didn’t know this until we saw it on the news).
We had to run into the kitchen and hide in the quiet until she left. It was terrifying
One of my foster parents had a camera in my room and the door needs to be open and I only could have one meal she got charged 🙃
What the hell is a soda pop?
This just reinforces my thoughts that having children should be an earned privilege rather than a right.
Welcome back to another episode of “why I love MY parents”
i wish my parents were more trusting when i would have a girlfriend. it really is embarrassing whenever i had a girl over not just my girlfriend any girl and they would poll them to the side tell them that i was a sex addict when i was not. it was worse when i literally only hangout with girls
Weirdest rule my family had was that my mother didn't like us kids watching Spongebob, so it was completely banned. Just Spongebob too, not any of the other retrospectively weird as fuck cartoons that were on back in the early 2000s. Fortunately, dad was able to talk her out of it after showing her a few episodes, so that only lasted a year or two.
lmao and here i am with my least favorite rule being i cant drive the car if i cant pass a drug test and internet gets turned off at 11:30.
My household has a rule that is 'if Ur not fat Ur unhealthy' I never believed this rule and my parents got rlly mad when I questioned them, I'm not fat and I don't rlly think that being fat means u r healthy but idk. So yea that was one of the stupidest rules
There was also another rule which was 'u can't eat any ice cream in summer or in winter' and I started to wonder when will I be able to get ice cream again, I ofc bought ice cream secretly something ( like 4-5 times a year sometimes even 2-3 )
I have the same rule at 18:08 or #25
Edit: except I don’t get to respond and if I say what I get screamed at and they lecture me about how I only care about myself and my video games and nothing else
Grandma had 3 foster kids (whom she ended up adopting). In talking with one of them, the topic of Pokémon came up. I don't play, but have a general idea what it's all about. He tells me that he was told that those cards were evil or something, and I calmly reply that "That's stupid. They're just part of a card game." Then started viciously mocking the idea that it even could be good or evil. What I DIDN'T know is that it was Grandma who had told him that Pokémon was evil... and she was sitting in the same room as us. Apparently, I did a good enough job getting my point across that the kids were from that point forward allowed to play Pokémon.
Thinking back, it probably came from my mother as the church we attended fell into the whole hysteria regarding D&D and video games. For those of you who didn't live through the 90's, let me just say that there's a reason that so many of my generation have a problem with religion.
You are really lucky if you grew up in a mexican household. Also, if have any of these issues, convince your parents that you dont feel happy with this rule and want to remove it so everyone can relax.
This is all just child abuse 🤣
The one that said their father extremely abusive but they still, "Loved him unconditionally" is super fucked. Never understand how people can give a shit about people that would treat them that way.
Padlocks on the fridge and the bathroom when I was growing up. Imagine the rules I’m my childhood home.
My mom had some stupid rules, some of which I knew were stupid just cause she couldn't even follow her own rules and others I didn't realize how stupid they were till I went to friend's houses and they questioned why I couldn't do certain things. Like I wasn't allowed to handle a knife at all. My steaks at home were always pre-cut for me before I ever saw them. The first time I was given a steak that wasn't already cut I was I kid you not... 13 and at a friends house who's parents were not expecting to have to pre-cut a steak for a teenager. They stopped cutting food for their own kids when they were about 7.
Part of the reason we had this rule is because my brother is mentally disabled and he doesn't understand how dangerous knives can be if not used properly. It was easier to have the same rule for both of us rather than try to explain to him why his little brother can safely handle a steak knife but he can't so neither of us were allowed to use a knife ever.
I also couldn't put certain things in the washing machine cause my mom thought the snap buttons would some how break the machine. I've had multiple people offer to wash my cloths for me if they have snap buttons because they found out my mom won't let me wash them at home and they stink after never being washed.
Apperently older machines were made of porciline and actually could break from certain hard materials beating around in there but newer machines haven't been made of porciline since the 70's so the risk is none existent anymore but my mom still enforced that rule.
I had a bed time that was earlier than any other kid in my grade but it kind of balanced out cause other kids bed time was enforced every night while my bed time only applied on school nights. If it was the weekend or summer vacation I could stay up as late as I wanted. She even got mad when I stayed after school for rehersal and they kept us up past 10 cause she seemed to automatically assume everyone had the same 8pm bed time I did. In fact I actually thought it was a legal requirement till I realized she made up the rule herself and got made when other people didn't enforce the same made up rule she did.
I remember days when we got sent to bed before the sun even went down and we were too young to tell time or understand what daylight savings time was so we'd just be really confused why bed time moved to when there was still sun light out for half the year. Eventually she pushed bed time back 1 hour just so we'd stop complaining about going to bed before it was even night out but we never got any kind of extention after that.
I wasn't allowed to take a bath by myself because she thought I'd drown in less than 1 inch of water which is pretty much only true if you're talking about an infant being left unattended. I didn't take a shower on my own till I was 10 and even then she'd find some excuse to barge in on me unnounced even when I was in high school to the point of making me afraid to actually take a shower cause I didn't feel like I had any privacy or any concern that I even needed privacy cause "She use to change my diapers there for that makes it Ok" to this day I still only shower at night when everyone else is asleep cause I'm parnoid someone will walk in on me even if there is a lock on the door because my mom once picked the lock from the outside just to show me it wasn't going to stop her. I freak out if anyone even walks past the bathroom door or my bedroom door.
I don't have an issue with my dad cause he freaking knocks and doesn't just barge in unannounced. But my mom honestly, if the gender roles were reversed and a father did any of the same things to a daughter he would have been arrested but some how when it's a mother and son people just think it's a bit creepy and accuse me of over reacting.
I thought all parents were like that for the longest time because I seemed to be the only person really bothered by it until I realized that men could actually face criminal charges for doing the exact same things to their daughters that my mother had been doing to me. So not only was it a stupid rule but it was also a lame excuse for my mom to sexually harass her own son.
Really no one should be bathing their kids once they reach a point when they can dress themselves. They should be given privacy as soon as possible otherwise your just going to end up with kids who hate baths and showers cause their parents are creepy child predators.
What in the actual fuck
wtf
7:56 sounds like your family must be related to the other family earlier in the video 😂😂
I don’t really have that many rules but I have two big ones “don’t burn the house down and don’t open the door for anyone” so I say my life is pretty good right now
Okay the rule that u shouldn't move, speak or give any indication that your home isn't so bad especially if you do that and you actually managed to avoid opening the door on several not so good people because of it, it has its perks, its an oversimplified version of "don't open the door to strangers"
Soda pop OP said that if the dad finds out he gets pissed and don't talk for a month...well that's not too back TBH, he could get pissed and never come back.
Parents be wildin
The way the video ended lmao
"Of we were caught talking, we were fucked."
Definitely sounds very normal out of context.
My parents are strict on videogames:
20 minutes per person (there are four of us, me the eldest at 15, going down from 13, 12, and 9. But the rule is : "You have 20 minutes to play whatever you want and then it's the next Persons turn but you have to in the 20 minute limit complete the game fully all side quests unlockables, and side missions. IMPOSSIBLE TO DO IT AND YET THAT RULE STARTED WITH MINECRAFT!!! (we didn't know that there was a end to the game being the End.)
This wasn’t really a rule but every time I would start crying when I was younger my mom would send me to my room no matter my reason for crying. I say “when I was younger” because I rarely cry anymore
My dad says I can't say hate because it's “too strong” of a word and yet they say I am allowed to say any cuss but the f-word or just get a small yelling if I say any cuss word.
I feel so sorry for these people.
This probably isn't that weird, but my guardian won't let me eat in my bedroom because of bugs. And my dad won't let me or my siblings play games that have anything to do with violence (major violence, that is. He does let us do Pokemon), like Cuphead, Undertale, DDLC, and even my absolute favorite of all time, FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN. (That last one was because of a cuss word. I'd forgotten about the curse word before I put the video on, and when I did and the word came up, my stepmom came in and BANNED US FROM TH-cam FOR A LONG WHILE. You heard me right! OH and he also won't let me play Among Us. )
Not eating in your room is common rule. Not playing video games is also a common rule. Also, TH-cam or any tv is terrible for kids. I grew up playing violent video games lol. Got cod at like 9 years old gta even younger
My parents forbade me from watching kid shows and made me watch what they wanted me to watch which was crime stuff and romance stuff, I always zoned out when the shows were about romantic stuff and just sometimes played games in my room till the shows were over, but I found a glitch in the system that allowed me to watch my favorite shows, an awesome sibling that would distract my mom with shopping reasons while my dad was away for work
And that's why raising a child should be investigate... No wonder why some parents get killed by their child...
I feel so bad for the person with Asperger‘s since I have autism and I know how hard it can be even with my awesome understanding parents
I was not allowed to leave the house outside of school and chores, at all.
Oh you want to go to a friends house to do schoolwork? No. Want to just sit down outside and relax? No.
Severely injured and need to go to the hospital? Maybe, if you are willing to be punished.
Dude, I don’t drink soda but dang. I’ve never seen someone who hated it that much lol
I don’t really have anything like this, but my grandma is always coming up with more and more reasons why I don’t talk to her.
1. She’s annoying as fuck
2. That’s pretty much it, but yeah, she’s annoying in every way
I’m gonna start this off by saying I have autism, which is one of things that these are based on.
When I come home from school, I go to my grandparents house, because my mom is a teacher in another district and I’m not yet old enough to be home by myself. I usually have my earbuds in, so it’s hard to hear what people are saying. When I come into the house, my grandma immediately wants to talk about my day. I want to finish my song/album, leave me alone. When I come in, I set my stuff down on a couch in this nice little front room where no one else usually is (we call it the piano room, because it has a piano; grandparents usually sit in their own chairs in living room). 7-8 hours of walking and writing is really physically and mentally tiring, and I just want to relax. Yet my grandma continuously tries to talk to me.
She also thinks I’ve become “more autistic” since I got diagnosed. Like it’s an excuse or something.
More reasons why I eventually want to never talk to her again:
1. She insists on me saying goodbye to her whenever I leave the car when she drops me off at places. Like literally- “Bye, sweet girl!” (I hate being called things like that) *silence from me* (now, more forcefully,) “Bye, (name)!”
I usually just shut the car door. I also never sit in the front seat with her, it’s too close for me.
2. She is very Christian. I have nothing wrong with my family’s religious beliefs, I just am not as focused on god or whatever exists as she is. Like sometimes, when she’s dropping me off somewhere (again) she forces me to stay in the car, hold her hand (please no, I don’t like that) and she says a prayer. Like for god’s sake, I’m trying to get to my choir rehearsal. Let me leave. Also being closeted doesn’t help.
3. Stereotypical time: she thinks that the reason why I never talk to her was because of my phone. And that was also the same time as my autism diagnosis. I wonder how that’s connected. mAyBe My PhOnE mAdE mE aUtIsTiC aNd GaY, dEfInItElY nOt BeCaUsE oF aCtUaL sElF dIsCoVeRy! aNd ThAtS wHy I iGnOrE hEr, NoT bEcAuSe I’m A tEeNaGeR (maybe my phone made me autistic and gay, definitely not because of actual self discovery! And that’s why I ignore her, definitely not because I’m a teenager)
Long story short, my annoying stereotyping homophobic grandma is desperate for attention from me, and comes up with shit reasons to why I don’t talk to her.
I can’t wait for the day when I fully come out to my family as omni, and see the look on my grandmas face as she realizes that she’s either gonna have to accept her granddaughter, or finally leave me alone. And then when I come out as genderflux, she’s gonna have to not call me her granddaughter anymore.
Also, does anyone know any gender neutral names for things like that that aren’t just sibling, parent, grandchild, etc. It could be nice for me lol
you're too underrated
Thanks ma man!
@@andrewsstories hi
Wtf is a soda pop
So the car gas and oil ledgers actually are a really good idea because doing that would give you a perfect understanding of what to do with your car and if your car has problems believe it or not you can easily let your mechanic look at the ledger and they will be able to use that data to give you a far better rate for car maintenance and when you need service and repairs on your vehicle most mechanics actually have to attempt to perform a rough estimate of that data anyway and if you have how often you put oil in the car and how much and what type and brand and what you do with your gas as well your mechanic will give you pointers and be so thankful that you have that data because it literally makes their job a billion times easier. I knew a guy who kept that type of list and the Jiffy Lube employees would actually give him free oil changes because it made their jobs so much easier to do that and it gave them time to actually read threw his data and get a far better estimates on other vehicles and they wished more people did that because it made their jobs so beyond easier. Allowing you to understand how much you spend on car work and what it takes to keep your car working perfectly is actually good and even if you do not fully use the data the guy who works on your vehicle in the shop will look at it and actually give you discounts because it makes their job so beyond easier.
The thumbnail got me excited💀
The weirdest rule was when I was living in my grandparents house. They didn't allow anyone to watch tv or eat on the couch.
Number 19 as a kid: Yeah fun games no school!
Number 19 as an adult: :l
I really don’t remember having rules as a kid, other than shut up or stop crying or I’ll give to something to cry about.. lol
6:04 is one of the rules I have with having to clean and shower after a mom visit but none of them cheated to my knowledge
Story 19 sounds kinda nice tho. 😂 Just well... Not the second half of it.
Wow I didn't know there can be such strict rules the worst rule we have is don't eat wile seating on your bed.
10:05 I think that the mom probably had a bad experience in the past where she almost got kidnapped or something like that
I would get into a learning position every time I screwed up really badly.
Story 19 sounds awesome
My family just didn't have money for consoles, since we had to have a computer anyway. And, honestly? Much happier to have grown up on the sheer creativity and gameplay variety of PC games. I didn't discover PCMR, I was born in it, raised by it lol.
10/10 voice very good for falling asleep
Thank you!