Childhood Rules Quotes

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.

As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house.

I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

My mom is the kind of mom, when we would go to a friend of the family's house, and they would offer us something to drink or offer us something to eat, my mother would always say, 'Tell them no.' You could be starving - you could be dehydrated - but as kids, we were supposed to tell the host, 'No.'

What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby from this gorgeous artwork.

My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Once you start shaving you're done at Disney.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.