Did your parents restrict you from anything until a certain age? and has that affected who you are today? in a good or bad way?
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Not really. I never wanted to drink etc anyway until I was 18 (and then oh boy did I drink...) It hasn't affected me really. I was denied nothing so I didn't miss anything. It did make me a person that enjoys seeking out new experiences and is not afraid of them. Possibly made me more anti-authoritarian though - I never needed authority, just a damned good reason why to do/not do something.
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nope, they were always VEEERRYYY easy going .. i didn't really have rules. the only rule right now is i can't go on a roadtrip until i'm 21 .. only because i went to montreal when i turned 18 and got 3 speeding tickets .. lol. but one more year, and im good :)
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my mother used to restrict everything, and it was really bad. repression is never a good thing.
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Nailpolish! 30 years & living 700 miles from home, I still don't wear it that often, my mom had the biggest fit called it barbaric & slutty. She is a true woman of the great depression.
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I had many restrictions as any child should, different ones for different levels of maturity. I never thought of them as restrictions, though, just as rules to keep me safe or teach me something. But more than restrictions, my parents taught me what the family standards and principles were and that we all abide by them. So I never felt left out and I understood the difference between adult things and child things.
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They restricted us from dating and from staying over at other peoples houses. I started dating in my late 20's and did not have much personal friends during my childhood. I was friendly at school but did not really have many personal friends. My younger brothers and sister were more outgoing. One of my sisters started dating very young even though it was not encourage. She married as an emancipated teenager before being 17. What do I mean by "restricted us from dating." What I mean is that we understood that it should not be done. I was a source of embarrassment if that happened to you. But not that it was completely prohibited is just the sense that me and my older sister got, which my younger siblings did not get to be or feel that way.
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I wasn't allowed to help myself in the fridge, unlike most today..i wasn't allowed friends in the house, nor was allowed to stay in the house at the weekends, other than that there were no restrictions on friends (probably because they weren't allowed in therefore they never met them!) I suppose it has affected me in that i don't have lots of people at mine, i'd rather go see them, i dont just take things, and i tend to not out stay my welcome, i know when i need to go :)
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Dating. As I'm in my forties, I'm hoping they'll change their minds soon. I'm so lonely;)
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Teenage years had the most restrictions.No smoking unless I told them and smoked in front of them...no liquor or drugs at all. I never lifted a cigarette to my lips--I did a lot of pot, and some very controlled drinking. Then, there were curfews. If I remember, it was home after school activities every day...which was pretty easy to obey. 10PM weekends, which ended at Midnite after I was a junior in HS. I stuck to those times pretty well, even though most of my friends had much looser rules. I think that they were good rules and I almost never resented them.
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