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Teens: Describe the strictest parents you've ever heard of that are real? - Lost Girl *Forever Young* - 03-04-2014 11:54 AM
Not like TV parents. I'm talking about like actual parents that you know or have heard of.
My friend's parents are so strict it's insane. So we're 16, 17 years old. She's not allowed to spend the night at her friends house & when she has she friends over, they have like a curfew, they have to go to sleep at 9:30. She isn't allowed to watch PG-13 movies, she isn't allowed to be on social media. She was allowed snapchat for awhile, but then her parents found out that some kids use it to like sext and she wasn't allowed to use it anymore. Her parents have like a lock on their laptop, it's a family laptop and whenever she gets on and off it shows all the websites she went to, everything she looked up, how long she was there etc. Her parents get texts whenever she fails ANYTHING in class, like even those daily grades that don't hurt you if you bomb it. If she fails anything, she gets her phone taken up., They read her texts, she wasn't allowed to have a kik. And if you want to text her or call her, the friend has to get permission from the parents. She has a bedtime and it's 9, I remember she invited me to a sleepover once & she was complaining about the bedtime & I said I didn't have one. She ranted to her mom and her mom called my mom & started stressing the importance of a bedtime & that maybe that's why I was the way I was because I didn't have a bedtime.
BQ: Are your parents strict? How strict or lenient are they, what are you not allowed and allowed to do?
BQ: Do you like pancakes?
BQ: Favorite juice?
- Miss - 03-04-2014 12:05 PM
The worst I have is my friend who gets grounded if she leaves clothes on the floor and not even a bunch. One sock can get her grounded. And yes I like pancakes chocolate chip are my favorite and my favorite juice is apple-grape
- Stop Using My Name - 03-04-2014 12:12 PM
My cousin and her daughter. My second cousin, my cousin's daughter wasn't allowed to participate in any after school activities. She wasn't allowed to go to any friend's homes and wasn't allowed to have any friend's at her home. She wasn't allowed to call the friends on the phone or to receive calls. At eighteen, she wasn't allowed to view R rated movies or to read any books that were considered adult fiction or even fiction appropriate for high schoolers. She wasn't allowed to attend any school functions.She wasn't allowed to go out with friends and was only allowed to go out socially if family members came with her.
- ? - 03-04-2014 12:21 PM
Chinese parents.
- Tegan - 03-04-2014 12:29 PM
Wow that's strict, the most strict parent I know, won't let her 15 year old girls watch any movie that has even one swear word in it or anything and when she decides to them them watch she has to watch it with them. They are allowed to go out much. They have to do all they're homework and read books and everything, and from the age of 4 or whenever they're made sit down for an hour and read books or do something education. My parents aren't that strict, like I have a friend coming down and staying for a week, I stay the night at boys places and like other girls and they boys stay as well, I have 10 piercings, she always says no more, but I pierce hem myself and she's all good with it. The only thing my mum is strict on is drinking and that because I got suspended from a really expensive boarding school for a week for drinking.
Yes I like pancakes, but if I eat too many I get sick.
And my favourite juice is orange or apple.
- 556 - 03-04-2014 12:39 PM
My one old friend had very strict parents. They were from Ukraine so I'm pretty positive that had something to do with it. Anyway, her mom flipped out completely when my friend got a 95 on a test. That fact just boggled my mind.
BQ: My mom is very laid back. The only thing she doesn't like is when I'm out and don't text her, which I did once. She does reprimand me when I'm disrespectful but other than that she never does anything strict parents do.
BQ2: Yes. I used to prefer waffles because I didn't want to like what was the norm (the norm being pancakes) but one day I realized that waffles are awful. Pancakes are better.
BQ3: Apple.
- Poppy - 03-04-2014 12:48 PM
Since I turned 16 my parents have became really relaxed I can come in whenever I want, go where ever I want and basically do whatever I want as long as it doesn't involve them... Only thing is their weirdly strict about people staying round at mine, like I'm just not aloud friends round it's weird
- Aslan - 03-04-2014 12:55 PM
Hmm....well my old neighbors were extremely strict with my best friend. He is 15 and not allowed to do anything. His phone is monitored and taken away at night, he does a crazy amount of chores every day, he was never allowed to have sleepovers or even go in my or any other neighbor's house, he couldn't ever go to the store with us, he HAD to be inside by 7 which sucked because all us kids would hang out in the yard until late during the summer and he never got to. He had to be very respectful at all times, he just had a very funless, strict routine.
BQ: Nope not at all. There really are no rules...if I wanna do something I think my mom would disapprove of, I'd just talk to her about it and see what'll work out.
He wasn't allowed to use the Internet at all and couldn't watch PG-13 movies either. I know this is terrible but they said ONE time he could come into my house so I found the dirtiest, fowlest, and mist disgusting movie I could and let him watch it LOL.
BQ: Ehh..only with whipped cream and strawberries.
BQ: Mean green juice.
- H bomb - 03-04-2014 12:56 PM
I don't know many details about other people's family lives. I rarely go to other people's houses and when I do, its not long enough for me to get the gritty details on what they allow and believe. And honestly? I don't care to hear about other people's parents.
On the surface, and to be perfectly honest, I think my mother is the strictest parent I know, just based on simple things I see other families doing that I know my mom would not go along with. And, she is not even that strict. She just has her own compass and sometimes lets us do things that other parents think is boderline neglectful, like taking the subway to school without an adult, but also doesn't let me do things that other kids my age don't even think about, like having a facebook page.
Its weird. Seems that my mom is more afraid of the weird BS that happens online than the weird BS that happens in the city. Go figure, but I like that about her. Her way of doing things is certainly unique.
I see how other kids talk to their parents, and I know without having to experiment that if I ever used "that" tone of voice with my own mother she would slap me senseless. Also, I don't think most kids my age have as many chores around the house as I do. My mom is super diligent about us learning common, everyday things and also collaborating in the house.
My mom is very particular about cleanliness, punctuality, manners, responsibility and discipline. She doesn't like sloppy chores or incomplete sentences when we talk. Most kids I know do not really get that kind of flack from their folks.
But, I do not have a bedtime, and I can make a lot of choices for myself, like who I befriend and who I talk to. When I was eleven my mom allowed me to read the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, for example, and I've watched a lot of Tarantino movies, NBK, documentaries on war etc. She doesn't mind a bit of nudity here and there in the things I watch, and I can talk about anything and everything with her, going from sex, religion, drugs, porn, crime, and she doesn't even flinch. I can wear whatever I want, and so can my sisters.
I can safely predict that if in two years or so I smoke a bit of pot, my mother will not care. However, she will have my balls if I drive drunk or high, if I carry a weapon just for fun or if I pick a fight for a stupid reason. She told me once that if someday I am taken into custody, and I know I am guilty of something, to use my one call wisely because she is not going to bail me out if I do something dumb, or get caught doing something dumb. She means it 100%
Yeah, my mom just does her thing. She's not American, her culture and upbringing are very different from what its considered "normal" here. There is also a good chance that she's just a weirdo.
BQ: I guess I already went through that.
BQ: Yeah, pancakes are great.
BQ: Carrot juice and tomato juice.
- 545 - 03-04-2014 01:00 PM
Mine.
- I was not allowed out of my house except to go to school.
- I was not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities like drama or speech and debate.
- I was not allowed to hang out with friends on weekdays or weekends.
- It was not uncommon for my mother to show up at my school completely unannounced to check my grades and/or make sure I was actually in my classes.
- Neither parent ever bothered to teach me how to drive, then yelled at me because I didn't know how.
- I was prevented from holding a job, then yelled at when I didn't have one.
- When I was 17/18 and tried to assert my independence by riding my bike everywhere, I was required to have my cellphone with the GPS turned on at all times so my mom could make sure I was where I said I was. It was not uncommon for her to show up where I was out with friends several times within an hour, to "check on" me. I lost a LOT of friends (and even some boyfriends) because of that.
- My parents determined who I was "allowed" to be friends with.
- Pretty sure my mom went through my phone every day (online phone services and stuff).
- I had to fight tooth and nail to pursue my own interests. My mom was determined to make me do what she wanted me to do, regardless if I had any interest in it or not (soccer, Girl Scouts, 4H, poetry, writing, art...the list goes on and on), even going so far as to take things away from me that were not associated with whatever hobby she decided I would take up.
BQ: Uh, yeah. They were.
BQ2: Can't have them. Allergic.
BQ3: Grapefruit.