Top Ten Worst Things About Growing Up With Overprotective Parents

I must be very unlucky to live in a home with overprotective parents.

Why do you yell at me for being the correct maturity for my age?

This is true in my family...we're Asian... but I still insist calling them "Mom" and "Dad" instead

I find this weird, my mom won't let me be friends with a boy at all. And I'm not allowed to date until I am 22... But I don't care about the dating one honestly. But not being able to have friends of the opposite gender though...

My parents are uncomfortable with me having guys for friends ( I can only talk to them online because we moved to a different city 7 hours away ). They are not completely opposed to this and I'm grateful.

My sister got pregnant at the end of high school, so my parents are afraid that I will make the mistake of getting a girl pregnant. Also they won't let me hangout with my gay friends alone.

Fortunately not every millennial had overprotective parents because nothing on this list is what my parents would do to me.

I wasn't allowed to make friends unless if they were in my class and my mom knew their mom.

Really? My mom is overprotective and she allows me to have friends.

I'm an adult and I was watching Texas Chainsaw 3D when my mom came in and told me that it's too "violent" for me and that I may copy it. It's rated R. This is the EXACT SAME mom that allows me to watch the Annabelle and IT movies.

People who are 26 that have their mom telling them what to do need a life.

I am 13.25 and not allowed to watch PG. G only, and I am 13.

It's so dumb when adults think we'll become violent of playing video games with violence in it! They think we'll turn into big murderers or something if we play games like Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty. It's stupid! They think that violent video games cause all these murders and school shootings. So by that logic, if I play Madden, will I become a professional NFL player then?

Not true! I don't copy video games in real life after playing them. After playing Roblox: Jailbreak, I never ran around robbing banks and shooting cops. After playing Halo and Call of Duty, I never shot or stabbed people. After playing Fortnite, I never ran around shooting people and dancing on them.

When videos of babies and children come up on YouTube, my parents think that I'm either watching child pornography or that due to the videos popping up, people will think that they are child molesters/abusing children. what!

I started watching YouTube videos when I was like 8 or 9, then my parents banned me from watching it until I was like 12 or 13. I am so glad now I don't have to deal with strict parenting rules since I'm 18.

Bruh my dad doesn't care how old I am, he thinks videos with swear words are suitable for 18+, I ain't going to wait until I'm above 18, once I get my own Vehicle I will retire from my family.

In my case, it's a sibling. My mom is overprotective of me, but not my younger sister. I'm 26, and she's 19. My mom allows her to cook on the stove unsupervised, hang out with friends, and go places unsupervised. Would she allow me to do any of that? NO WAY! >:(

I'm about 16 years old, but feel like I'm about 12 or 13.

My family thinks that I will get diarrhea from eating too much fruit

My parents are Asian and they believe in and enforce many Asian superstitions and they force me to go along with them. For example the 7th month on the lunar calendar (Late July-early August depending on the year) it's considered as "ghost month" where Asians strongly believe that no one should be out in public after sundown or else ghosts will haunt you, so if we go anywhere for vacation during ghost month we MUST be home by sundown, NO EXCEPTIONS.

My parents are so superstitious. No cutting nails after sunset, no cutting nails or hair on Tuesdays ( because I was born on a Tuesday ) , a cat should not cross your path, a pig shouldn't enter the house, we can't cook non veg in the house on Saturdays, I always have to tie my hair except for when I'm washing it or getting a haircut and the list goes on and on. Guess it's normal in India.

During the summer of 2016 I got sunburnt WAY too easily to the point that my mom was so paranoid about me getting burnt that she downright refused to let me step out of the house for even one second.

It was miserable. I felt like I was in prison.

During the summer months whenever we go out in public my mom forces me to hold a napkin up to my face and cover my mouth and nose with it. This started in 2016 when my skin got so bad. I don't like that at all. Not only will people might give me weird stares and I get embarrassed from it, they also probably will think that I have a disease or something.