Ten Bizarre Rules Parents Had for Kids – Hopefully None In Detroit
Did your parents . . . or your friends’ parents . . . have any weird rules when you were growing up? Someone online asked people to name the weirdest…
UNITED STATES – JANUARY 15: HAPPY DAYS – Gallery – Season One – 1/15/74, One of the most successful series of the 1970s was “Happy Days”, which was set in the late 1950s, early 1960s in Milwaukee. “Happy Days” told the story of the Cunninghams, pictured, bottom left: Marion (Marion Ross) and Howard (Tom Bosley), the parents of Joanie (Erin Moran), Richie (Ron Howard, bottom right) and Chuck (original actor Gavan O’Herlihy, top right, was replaced by Randolph Roberts in 1974, before Chuck went to college and was never seen again). Richie’s friends were Ralph (Donny Most, top left) and Potsie (Anson Williams, top center). Henry Winkler (center, right) played Fonzie, who moved into a small apartment over the Cunningham garage., (Photo by Bob D’Amico/ABC via Getty Images)
Photo by Bob D'Amico/ABC via Getty ImagesDid your parents . . . or your friends' parents . . . have any weird rules when you were growing up? Someone online asked people to name the weirdest rules they had as kids. Here are the highlights . . .
1. A mom told her kids NOT to cover their mouth when they coughed or sneezed, because she didn't want their hands to get dirty.
2. A kid wasn't allowed to use the word "fart." They had to call them "fluffs."
3. A kid's mom thought drinking more than one glass of water a day would "dilute the nutrients" in their body. So after one glass, they had to drink 7-Up.
4. A guy's parents still enforced his bedtime when he was in his 20s. He partied at a friend's house for his 21st . . . and had to call his dad at 8:00 P.M. to say he was going to bed. He secretly stayed up later than that.
5. A kid's very religious parents wouldn't let him watch "SpongeBob SquarePants", because they thought the holes in SpongeBob's body would induce, quote, "lustful thoughts."
6. A kid's grandfather wouldn't let them finish their leftover cereal milk by drinking it from the bowl. They had to finish it off with their spoon.
7. A couple kept a running tab of all the money they spent on their kids for 18 years . . . from food and clothes to sports equipment . . . and told them they'd eventually have to pay them back. But when they graduated, they "cleared" their tab and called it their graduation gift.
8. Used Kleenex had to be flushed. It couldn't go in the trash.
9. A girl's mom made all her friends wear socks in their swimming pool, because she was paranoid everyone had plantar warts.
10. A girl's mom took the "don't swim after eating" rule to the extreme. She also had to wait at least 30 minutes to take a BATH. She didn't realize it was weird until she was an adult.
(BuzzFeed)
