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23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 1:36am On Mar 30, 2017
1. You were always the first person who had to leave when everyone was hanging out.

2. Asking permission for a sleepover at your friend’s house took 37 hours of mental preparation, a detailed powerpoint presentation of your friend’s family tree, and a signed contract in your blood saying you wouldn’t drink and would be in bed by 10pm.

3. Whenever your friends would make plans for later that night, you knew your parents would say no because it literally took them 2-3 business days to process whether they would allow you to go out.

4. You would practice asking your parents for permission to do something in the mirror and preemptively come up with answers to questions you knew they’d ask.

5. You also always had to wait until they were in a good mood before asking for anything.

6. You sometimes whipped out the wounded puppy look and would sigh and say “never mind… you’re going to say no anyway” to garner sympathy from your parents before asking for a really big favor.

7. You would ask your parents once, and only once, if you could hang out at someone’s house. You never understood why your friends would think that “asking them again” would make any difference.

8. You always had to choose between going out on either Friday or Saturday night because there’s no way your parents were going to agree to both.

9. You understand THE PURE, UNADULTERATED PANIC that channels through your veins when your idiot friends change the plans 10 times and you have to keep reexplaining to your parents what you’re doing.

10. You lied constantly. About everything. You still do.

11. You never cursed until you got to college.

12. You never had “The Talk” with your parents. They probably left a book on your bed about your ~changing body~ and let you figure it out.

13. Family dinner conversations revolved around your academics and class schedule—never about your social or love life. As far as your parents were concerned, you didn’t have either.

14. To this day, you still can’t get dressed without wondering what your parents would think about what you’re wearing. Middle and high school were a 7 year war over whether that skirt was too short or if the words on your Abercrombie shirt were too suggestive.

15. Getting one piercing in your ears was the extent of what you could do to your body. If you even thought about dying your hair an unconventional color, getting a tattoo, or even getting a second piercing, hell would freeze over.

16. You probably shared the same first name as at least 4-5 other people in your classes growing up.

17. You always changed the channel if your parents walked in on you watching something where the characters might kiss.

18. Your parents always tried to sign up to chaperone school functions and field trips.

19. Manners were everything. You got the “I don’t want people to think you were raised by wolves” speech almost as often as the “is your napkin not on your lap at the dinner table? Do you do this at other people’s houses? I can’t let you out in public if you don’t put your napkin on your lap” lecture.

20. You’ve spent years dreaming of rebellion in the form of making spontaneous plans or wearing flip flops to the airport.

21. Your impulse reaction to hearing your friends say they had sleepovers with their significant others is open-mouthed shock.

22. You’re careful telling jokes to your parents because their response toes the line between laughing along to immediately going off on a 45 minute rant and probably sending you to your room afterwards.

23. If you miss one phone call, your parents suddenly assume you’re smoking “that marijuana” with “that one friend of yours” they KNEW was going to be a bad influence.

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Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 3:03am On Mar 30, 2017
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Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 8:42am On Mar 30, 2017
. Wow
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by blessedvisky(m): 8:50am On Mar 30, 2017
Lol. Quite true. I faced 1 3 4 5 7 11 12 13 14 17 19 20 22 and 23.
See my life cry cry
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 10:38am On Mar 30, 2017
blessedvisky:
Lol. Quite true. I faced 1 3 4 5 7 11 12 13 14 17 19 20 22 and 23.
See my life cry cry
lol
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by Dyt(f): 10:43am On Mar 30, 2017
cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 10:44am On Mar 30, 2017
grin Lalasticlala, mynd44
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by jaszplus12(m): 1:07pm On Mar 30, 2017
I faced number 10 and yes it still affects me. As a parent now I really try to make my kids comfortable so they won't learn to be impulsive liars...
Put a kid under pressure and lies become his second nature!

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Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by austinereds(m): 4:25pm On Mar 30, 2017
Wasn't easy. but thank God am outta that stage. damn.
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by Sijo01(f): 6:34pm On Mar 30, 2017
Strict parents raise the best lairs! embarassed

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Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 7:50pm On Mar 30, 2017
Sijo01:
Strict parents raise the best lairs! embarassed
yes o
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 9:37pm On Mar 30, 2017
grin
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ifyan(m): 9:49pm On Mar 30, 2017
Truth be told, some rules our parents set on our when will were young affected us psychologically and this is the major reason we behave differently when we are far away from them especially University.

Though positive and negative effects.

I know this generation will be different from others
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ifyan(m): 9:50pm On Mar 30, 2017
Sijo01:
Strict parents raise the best lairs! embarassed

No doubt
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by Nobody: 12:00am On Mar 31, 2017
I can totally relate.
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 2:27am On Mar 31, 2017
When I talk to my parent on phone I still bow down my head like am greeting them good morning
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 9:25am On Mar 31, 2017
kiss
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 11:33pm On Mar 31, 2017
angry
ShoProperties:
1. You were always the first person who had to leave when everyone was hanging out.

2. Asking permission for a sleepover at your friend’s house took 37 hours of mental preparation, a detailed powerpoint presentation of your friend’s family tree, and a signed contract in your blood saying you wouldn’t drink and would be in bed by 10pm.

3. Whenever your friends would make plans for later that night, you knew your parents would say no because it literally took them 2-3 business days to process whether they would allow you to go out.

4. You would practice asking your parents for permission to do something in the mirror and preemptively come up with answers to questions you knew they’d ask.

5. You also always had to wait until they were in a good mood before asking for anything.

6. You sometimes whipped out the wounded puppy look and would sigh and say “never mind… you’re going to say no anyway” to garner sympathy from your parents before asking for a really big favor.

7. You would ask your parents once, and only once, if you could hang out at someone’s house. You never understood why your friends would think that “asking them again” would make any difference.

8. You always had to choose between going out on either Friday or Saturday night because there’s no way your parents were going to agree to both.

9. You understand THE PURE, UNADULTERATED PANIC that channels through your veins when your idiot friends change the plans 10 times and you have to keep reexplaining to your parents what you’re doing.

10. You lied constantly. About everything. You still do.

11. You never cursed until you got to college.

12. You never had “The Talk” with your parents. They probably left a book on your bed about your ~changing body~ and let you figure it out.

13. Family dinner conversations revolved around your academics and class schedule—never about your social or love life. As far as your parents were concerned, you didn’t have either.

14. To this day, you still can’t get dressed without wondering what your parents would think about what you’re wearing. Middle and high school were a 7 year war over whether that skirt was too short or if the words on your Abercrombie shirt were too suggestive.

15. Getting one piercing in your ears was the extent of what you could do to your body. If you even thought about dying your hair an unconventional color, getting a tattoo, or even getting a second piercing, hell would freeze over.

16. You probably shared the same first name as at least 4-5 other people in your classes growing up.

17. You always changed the channel if your parents walked in on you watching something where the characters might kiss.

18. Your parents always tried to sign up to chaperone school functions and field trips.

19. Manners were everything. You got the “I don’t want people to think you were raised by wolves” speech almost as often as the “is your napkin not on your lap at the dinner table? Do you do this at other people’s houses? I can’t let you out in public if you don’t put your napkin on your lap” lecture.

20. You’ve spent years dreaming of rebellion in the form of making spontaneous plans or wearing flip flops to the airport.

21. Your impulse reaction to hearing your friends say they had sleepovers with their significant others is open-mouthed shock.

22. You’re careful telling jokes to your parents because their response toes the line between laughing along to immediately going off on a 45 minute rant and probably sending you to your room afterwards.

23. If you miss one phone call, your parents suddenly assume you’re smoking “that marijuana” with “that one friend of yours” they KNEW was going to be a bad influence.
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 3:00pm On Apr 02, 2017
angry
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by Rukkydelta(f): 9:19pm On Apr 02, 2017
Can relate to
1,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,19,20,22
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 4:41pm On Apr 03, 2017
kiss
Re: 23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Really Strict Parents Understand by ShoProperties(m): 8:56am On Apr 04, 2017
grin

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