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How I feel growing up and realizing my parents dumb strict rules were for a reason and actually made a positive impact on my life

2837 upvotes, 38 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Girl Talk. "How I feel growing up and realizing my parents dumb strict rules were for a reason and actually made a positive impact on my life"

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Anonymous 1w

Sometimes I see how other kids behave and I text my mom telling her I’m grateful she is my parent

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Anonymous 1w

Me except opposite because I realized how stupid all the rules were and how they made zero sense to follow

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Anonymous 1w

I hated my mom at one point for doing literally everything in her power to keep me from a specific group of friends after I started changing, and not in a good way. I truly thought she was ruining my life and my opportunity into the “popular” crowd. Like we would have BLOW OUT fights over it and her being a helicopter parent. But (unfortunately) she was right and they were all terrible friends that made me miserable 😐 and I was much happier when I got better friends like she told me to.

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Anonymous 1w

Depends on what, my best friends parents ruined so much for me for no reason by not allowing her to do stuff w me just cuz shes punished (she literally did nothing wrong studied hard, nice to everyone, practice almost every day) and since i was an introvert in hs there was no one else id rather do that stuff with so it was a bummer

Anonymous 1w

On the other hand my bestie grew with an absent mom who rarely enforced rules and she holds a ton of resentment towards her lack of parenting now as an adult.

Anonymous 1w

How I feel growing up and realizing my mom is not very self aware 😭

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Anonymous 1w

I feel like people don’t remember that most of the time, parents do actually know what’s best for you. At least good parents.

Anonymous 1w

Nah some of them were actually dumb in hindsight

Anonymous 1w

My mom scared me away from boys so bad I still don’t know how to talk to them😭

Anonymous 1w

In hindsight, I’m glad it was them punishing me and keeping me in line and not the cops and courts

Anonymous 1w

Can't relate to this 😔 I think all the rules ruined my ability to learn how to do so many things.

Anonymous 1w

When I hear all nt friends horror stories abt getting into really sketchy situations while I’d sit mad abt a 10pm curfew

Anonymous 1w

How my childhood felt tho

Anonymous 1w

i grew up extremely catholic and still ended up being a slut so 🤣

Anonymous 1w

When I was 6 or 7 I had to fill out reading logs and I hated reading but my mom forced me to. Kind of glad she and didn’t just lie signing off on the reading logs because reading is extremely important

Anonymous

#1 1w

No same. I work with kids and sometimes I’ll call my mom and tell her how grateful I am for her rules

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Anonymous

#1 1w

no literally like some ppl rly have no home training.

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Anonymous

#7 1w

The same thing happened to me literally multiple times

Anonymous

#7 1w

moms always spot it a mile away

Anonymous

#7 1w

Worst part is that I couldn’t even resent her for the helicopter parenting because as soon as I got better friends she immediately stopped helicoptering. Like she was genuinely just trying to look out for me and not control my life which pissed me OFFFF because I wanted SO badly to have a reason to be mad at her 😭😭😭 my mom deserves a month long cruise for the hell I gave her when I was 15

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Anonymous

#5 1w

That’s the flip side

Anonymous

#4 1w

That’s actually the exact situation I’m in now and we are 19 years old kms

Anonymous

#7 1w

In fairness to you- while it sounds like your mom had great intentions & instinct on the situation with that group- if that was how you felt, she probably didn’t take the right approach. I’m sure she did the best she could, but even most inexperienced, hormonal teenagers likely wouldn’t feel this way if handled in a healthy way

Anonymous

#12 1w

Lol same

Anonymous

#15 1w

Yes for real!

Anonymous

#16 1w

No same while my classmates were getting pregnant at 17 and getting in trouble with the cops I was sitting at home because I didn’t have a curfew because I wasn’t allowed to go out

Anonymous

OP 1w

ppl say they got up to so much shit as a teen but that’s all survivors bias there’s countless stories and traumas that will likely never be talked about. Fucking OMEGLE??? And periscope god what was our generation thinking

Anonymous

#12 1w

Same except I don’t sleep around but I live with my bf without being married so they still failed there 😂

Anonymous

#13 1w

Haha I don’t sleep around either really but I do make questionable decisions sometimes that would send my parents into a spiral

Anonymous

#11 1w

That’s really sweet and really well meaning but I was truly the worst hormonal teenager you’d ever met in your entire life at 15. Like worst movie stereotype you can imagine where the smallest comment would turn me into Godzilla for no reason. My mom had to literally put locks on the windows because I kept sneaking out at night, and I thought that was genuinely unfair not to let me sneak out at 2am on a Thursday and come back drunk LMAO

Anonymous

#6 1w

My mom once said “those are ugly ass flowers” as this guy with a hibiscus plant walks by and he looked at her nasty and she was like “the fuck is he looking at?” And I was like “mom the windows are open”

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swimreaper 1w

I forgot to include we were in a Sam’s Club parking lot talking in her car

Anonymous

swimreaper 1w

😭 actually craxy

Anonymous

#18 1w

SAME on the other hand though, I was never allowed to have boyfriends/do stuff with boys and now as an adult I’m so decentered from men that I can’t get along with girls that revolve their lives around their bfs and I will always value my female friendships more than romantic relationships

Anonymous

OP 1w

Yes same

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Anonymous

#18 1w

I read this as “from farm boys” and I was so confused because one, very odd selection of prejudice, and two, farm boys are genuinely so sweet and wholesome. Took me 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 read-throughs to get it right. Definitely going to be an early night for me 😂

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izzy_the_hamster 1w

Lollll 😭😭

Anonymous

#5 1w

What do u even do if you’re a part of this group