Top Ten Worst Things About Growing Up With Overprotective Parents
If you have overprotective parents, you will understand. Note: this is for OVERPROTECTIVE parents only, not normal parents.
It kind of makes you feel so childish when you still call your mom Mommy and your dad Daddy.
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?
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 they were in my class and my mom knew their mom.
Friends are amazing! Parents shouldn't restrict who you can be friends with!
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'm 22. I don't care about the dating part, honestly, but not being able to have friends of the opposite gender is just frustrating.
My parents are uncomfortable with me having guys as friends (I can only talk to them online because we moved to a different city, 7 hours away). They're not completely opposed to it, though, and I'm grateful for that.
My sister got pregnant at the end of high school, so my parents are afraid I will make the mistake of getting a girl pregnant. They also won't let me hang out with my gay friends alone.
Because of this, I lost so many friends.
I do not need this. If you drop me off, I will arrive at my classroom. Also, you are causing bullying by getting me accused of being a "Momma's Boy."
My parents yelled at me for going to bed 5 seconds late, 3 weeks after school ended.
I am 13.25 and not allowed to watch PG. G only, and I am 13.
Dude, PG-13 is meant for those who are 13 or older.
I'm only allowed to watch certain ones.
I HATE it when my mom talks for 20 minutes after school and yells at me when I try to talk to my friends.
My room was perfectly organized, and my mom reorganized it into her proprietary (literally proprietary) system without explaining it to me. I couldn't find anything.
My mom constantly makes me wipe down my entire room all over again, despite the fact that I already did it several days ago!
Yeah, I asked for ripped jeans. They bought them for me, I wore them for a day, and they yelled at me for showing off so much skin (the rips were only near the knees, medium-sized) and told me never to wear them again in public.
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Once I turn 16 or older, I will get my own place.
My parents aren't too overprotective, but some parents refuse to let their child go to safe places even when the child is old enough.
My mom won't let me use the stove, and I'm 26. She then complains that I'm lazy and don't cook for myself. So I asked her to buy me an induction cooktop and an air fryer oven, and I promised to teach myself. I've had both for over a year now, and she still won't let me use them to cook my own food.
It's so dumb when adults think we'll become violent just from playing video games with violence in them! They act like we'll turn into 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 I'm either watching child pornography or that, due to those videos popping up, people will think they are child molesters or are 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 about 12 or 13. I'm so glad I don't have to deal with strict parenting rules anymore since I'm 18 now.
Bruh, my dad doesn't care how old I am. He thinks videos with swear words are only suitable for people 18 and older. I'm not going to wait until I'm 18+. Once I get my own vehicle, I will retire from my family.
In my case, it's my 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.
Yes, it makes people very childish.
I don't see why this isn't number one. Think about it.
They would force you to play games you didn't want to play.
For example, if you liked games like World of Warcraft, they would say, "You're too much of a baby to play World of Warcraft. Play Match the Shapes instead!"
I love horror movies, but my mom doesn't allow me to watch anything that features murdering or killing because she thinks I'll copy them. SERIOUSLY?
The funny thing is that I'm allowed to watch the Annabelle movies, which feature murdering and killing.
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, which they force me to follow. For example, during the 7th month of the lunar calendar (late July to early August, depending on the year), it's considered "ghost month." 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 shouldn't cross your path, a pig shouldn't enter the house, and we can't cook non-veg in the house on Saturdays. I also always have to tie my hair except for when I'm washing it or getting a haircut. The list goes on and on. I guess it's normal in India.
During the summer of 2016, I got sunburned WAY too easily, to the point that my mom became 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.
Why I hate my parents is because they never actually helped when I asked them to. They just tell me what to do, and when I ask why, they say, Because I said so, which is trashy parenting!
I'm not even allowed to stay at friends' houses after 9. I also get made fun of at school because of this.
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 really bad. I don't like it at all. Not only do people give me weird stares, which is embarrassing, but they also probably think I have a disease or something.
Me: Guess what? I made a new friend named Alexa.
Mom: Alexa? Where does she live? What are her parents' jobs? How tall is she? What's her race? What's her sexuality?