Parents having a scary power over you

[tiny e.a]

Is there anything that you weren't allowed to do as a child that when you do now you can hear your mum/dad/guardian nagging at you about it in your mind?

I've just bought a bottle of coke and then felt immediately guilty because my mum wouldn't want me drinking fizzy drinks so early in the day! I moved 250 miles away 6 years ago and yet I still live in fear that she'll find out silly things, like that I've left my socks from the day before lying in the living room instead of in the wash basket!

[lilyfrog]

Borrowing / Lending money. You just don't do it. You make do with what you have and if you don't have the money you don't spend it!

Arrrrgghh still kills me, even if I only need a �10 from my husband!!

[jno]

that's not bad advice, lilyfrog, though if strictly applied it would bring the mortgage business to a sudden halt.

Well, that's what parenting is all about, tiny e.a. You try to teach your kids to do the right thing. Maybe they'll eventually decide you were wrong and change their minds, but it's nice if they try to live your way for a while before deciding, from their own experience, that it doesn't matter so much where the socks go.

[annie0000]

Yesterday at work, one of the women was eating a bowl of soup and drinking a can of fizzy juice. Another colleague was aghast, as she always drinks milk with soup as her granny had always said that she would explode if she drank fizzy juice and soup together. She is 40 next week and still hasn't risked it!

We told my sons when they started school that it was a school rule that when they had their packed lunch, they had to eat their sandwiches first. Things went fine until i gave them a tuna wrap one day. My 5 year old thought he would be in trouble as he didn't have sandwiches to eat first - he came home furious and told me to never, ever give him a wrap again!!! he still reports people for eating their biscuit or whatever before their sandwiches - he wants to be a judge when he grows up! Moral of the story - be careful what rules you put in place....

[China Doll]

I still feel really bad if I don't finish what's on my plate :0(

[nutgoneflake]

annie - I just laughed out loud because that's exactly what I've told mine! My almost 7 year old still sometimes comes home with one sandwich and everything else left because he could only eat three, and then didn't dare touch anything else, bless him!

[Reverandfunk]

My nan would never let me sit within 10 feet of a colour tv because of "the rays"

[nutgoneflake]

My mum used to say 'turn off the TV if you're not watching it, it's not moving wallpaper." I'm ashamed to say that those exact words came out of my mouth the other day, and at the time I had no idea where they came from!! Just popped out, and I cringed...I am my mother......eek!

[annie0000]

Aww ngf that's cute - my boys are bottomless pits and never bring anything home except the empty wrappers or skins. At 7 and 6 they eat more than I do, but they are both tall and slim - they do loads of sports though so i guess that they must burn it off.

[hotpink]

my mum would tell me off for having a messy bedroom saying 'spiders live in piles of clothes' (and i'm obviously terrified of them). so even now, i can't bare to have piles of clothes on the floor, and i have to pick them up one by one just to check...

[thugulike]

I was never allowed to wear earings. I can hear my mother say still that only gypsies wore earings. She's been gone some 16 years but I still don't wear earings. I have tried them on but I never feel right in them.

She also told me that I should never go to work on a Monday with any ironing still to be done. I have never, not even once had any ironing to do at the end of the weekend. Good discipline though.

I can also hear my Dad tut when I do something a wee bit reckless in the car. He asked me when I was 46 what I was going to do when I grew up. Lol.

[nannon]

Not allowed fizzy drinks, crisps or chocolate before lunchtime.... the first time i did have them befre 1pm (i was about 8 i think) i was so scard the worls was going to end or something!
My mum used to tell me never to be naughty because she has spies all over our village and would find out - i belived that until i was about 16!!!!!!!

[nannon]

and even now when i get my weekly sunday night phone call from my dad he always says "hope your rooms tidy!" I always panick in case he turns up one day!!!

[johnlambert]

My step mum alway told me to wear clean underwear because she "didn't want any nurses laughing at her if I had dirty underwear and was hit by a bus" I can still feel the thick ear she gave me when I said that if I did get hit by a bus there would be no way I could stop my underpants getting dirty

[crapmemory]

My Mum always said the underwear one! Another was that you mustn't cut your nails on a Sunday as it was unlucky! I have told my sons to always wear clean undies for the same reason but not the nails one as I never knew why it was unlucky. If any of you know why please let me know!

[stressing1]

My Mum could always tell when I was doing something I shouldn't be, even if I was in another room! She said that she grew eyes in the back of her head when she became a mum and could see everywhere. I would never walk behind her until I was about 12! How sad!

[lorri24601]

my dad told me that you had to turn the tv off before you hoover or you will suck the colour out the tv and up the hoover, i was only 5 and i believed him, still makes me smile now when im cleaning to think i was ever so young and gulible lol