Restrictive Upbringing Quotes

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the community and having to obey orders blindly. I felt that everyone was growing up in the world, except me. This is probably one of the reasons why I had such a rebellious attitude towards any form of authority.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to love... everything. I feel like that, in and of itself, is a project of a lifetime: the problem of how to break out of the limiting context that is imposed upon us by the educational system, by the church, by our parents... As a kid I rejected it without even thinking about it. Now that I'm a little older, I see how deeply destructive it really is.

When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.

We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn't date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.

We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.

I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

I felt caged by my childhood.

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.