Parents' Weird Rules

i agree with your mum, i love long hair on girls!

Oh, on the subject of hair, up until the age of 11, I had hair all the way down past my bum because my mum wouldn't let me get it cut...she had to wash it for me and everything, then it got to the stage where I was like "mum, independence please, NEED to wash my own hair!" and she reluctantly let me get it cut, to halfway down my back (so still really long).
Now, thank god, at the age of 20 I am allowed to do what I want wiht my hair, although my mum still whinges everytime I go tothe hairdressers about how lovely my long hair used to be.....

That's the exact opposite to my friend (mentioned in my previous post). She was made to keep it short until she could take care of it herself, and it was only once she went to Uni was she able to properly grow it to waist length. (The last time a professional hairdresser cut her hair was the day before her wedding, she gets her husband to trim it once or twice a year as necessary these days.)

lol. I think I need to explain this one. My dad is a lawyer and my mother has a degree in English Literature so, I was being read King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest (that sort of thing) at bedtime when I was growing up and because I wasn't allowed out of th house much, all I did when I was younger was read books. I grew up reading non-fiction which wasn't too bad. But when I got older (about 12ish) and discovered Danielle Steele, that was all I read. I hid the books all over the house and eventually, my father got fed up and started tearing them up because I simply wasn't getting any school work done, not even homework! So in a way it was a good thing but at the time I hated my parents for it, especially when I got banned from our local library because I wasn't returning any books (they were getting torn). If they hadnt enforced that rule, I would never have discovered how much I love math. So the story ends happily ever after and all that ladida.
However, I will admit some of the other rules were over the top.

No chewy
No going to movies/sleepover/late nights on school nights
No going to parties where there weren't going to be parents
No eating in the street
No friends in room
No going out past 12
No dying hair
No piercing of the ears until 18
No clothes left on the floor
Pocket money - $1 for every of your age
No nail varnish
No makeup at all
No hanging around town after school
Wasn't allowed to shave legs until i was 16!!!!!! So I plucked them
Never allowed out of house in a skirt without stockings/tights (ffs)

Bascially, it was my mother who made the rules and she is so damned scary when she is angry. I realise now I was terrified of her for years. And then, when I turned 18, I didn't give a toss anymore because I was at uni, had my own money and lived away from her. Hurrah!

Bad thing is when I get cross with my cousins I sound like my mum. Must. Stop.

mobiles didn't exist when I was 15 :P:

You get used to it though, to be honest i thought i was normal, until i told my friends, they then just laughed

Oh, on the subject of hair, up until the age of 11, I had hair all the way down past my bum because my mum wouldn't let me get it cut...she had to wash it for me and everything, then it got to the stage where I was like "mum, independence please, NEED to wash my own hair!" and she reluctantly let me get it cut, to halfway down my back (so still really long).

No chewy
No going to movies/sleepover/late nights on school nights
No going to parties where there weren't going to be parents
No eating in the street
No friends in room
No going out past 12
No dying hair
No piercing of the ears until 18
No clothes left on the floor
Pocket money - $1 for every of your age
No nail varnish
No makeup at all
No hanging around town after school
Wasn't allowed to shave legs until i was 16!!!!!! So I plucked them
Never allowed out of house in a skirt without stockings/tights (ffs)

NO you really don't understand, it was soooooo long and I literally have the thickest hair in the world, so there was tonnes of it. PLus I used to swim a ot and I'd have it all piled into my swimming cap and it would get all waterlogged and I'd get neck ache!!
And I always wore it in a plait and people used to pull it.
You'd still say my hair was long now, past my shoulders. I've had it thinned out though and it's so mcuh more manageable.

Please tell me you're joking. You *plucked* your legs? That must have taken friggin ages!!

Yes,I plucked all the hair out of my legs. it took ages