Silly things you weren't allowed to watch/read/have as a kid?

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My mom was too permissive in the media I was allowed to consume, tbh. But, for some reason, Billy Idol was a bridge too far. I was little in his heyday. His videos gave the impression of him being a Satanist (I guess?). We didn't have mtv, I knew him from the radio. But my mom heard about his reputation and said I shouldn't like him or buy any of his music.

It's funny how different his sound and image was/is.
 
Mom was a bit of a helicopter parent, couldn't walk to the convinience store a mile away even at 16, couldn't be behind the house fence because it was 10 ft tall vinyl, no sleep overs until 15, just a lot of shit.
She tried making up for it by letting me have any material thing I'd ask for but I typically didn't ask for much.
She was so against me moving in with my now husband at 23 lmao.
Could do weird shit like listen to eminem at 12 though. Mostly because I had an older brother and sister, so any hopes of me not hearing that were out the window.

Another thing was clothes, no goth stuff but punk was fine, so I wore grunge and punk. My mom tried to be the opposite of hers, she was way too lax except for clothes. Mom HAD to wear skirts and dresses, no pants (born in the 60's) mom ended up in dangerous situations because of my gmas lack of parenting, so she ended up overdoing it a bit.
 
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I wasn't allowed to watch rated R movies or play rated M games. My parents didn't really care what I watched or played as long as it didn't have either of those ratings, so Courage the Cowardly Dog was a-okay and was even one of my favorite shows growing up, but staying up to watch Venture Bros on Adult Swim was NOT okay. Once I turned 13 they stopped caring and if I asked they would buy me rated M games like Halo 3 and Dead Space, though my mom was completely opposed to me playing Grand Theft Auto IV for a while because it was like the only controversial video game she recognized.

Nowadays most of what I play is indie games that are only mildly violent at worst, and I'm kinda turned off by excessively gory movies. I guess I could've turned out worse.
 
Huh, i never got prohibited anything when i was a kid.
But i know at a early age about my limits.
 
Meat Target said:
Cow & Chicken was the "this will make you retarded" cartoon in my house. Not that I ever watched it, anyway, it grossed me out.

And I was one of those kids who played Simpsons Hit & Run as a T-rated GTA substitute.
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When my dad banned things he found stupid anything he found annoying, I would always discover a more annoying alternative. He tried banning rap, I discovered kpop so I feel bad for him.
 
Preacher ✝ said:
My Mom didn't want me to watch Ed, Edd, and Eddy or CatDog because she thought they were stupid.
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Blindeye said:
Ed Edd n Eddy because my mother was worried I would try to copy their dangerous cartoon scams,
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Scream Aim Fire said:
My parents banned a LOT at my house; cartoons like Ed, Edd, & Eddy and anything that could be regarded as "too weird" were banned.
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🔪Cold Steel Brand Rep🔪 said:
My parents forbade me from Ed, Edd N' Eddy and I feel like I missed the part of my life where I would have actually enjoyed it
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What was with Ed, Edd N' Eddy that forbade parents, mine included from watching? For a time, I remember having paternal controls on my cable box for a while for Nick and Cartoon Network, even a time limit where I couldn't watch any television past 11 PM. I was even banned from watching The Weather Channel because I would do nothing but talk about the weather.

Around that time, I was restricted from playing M-rated games on my PS2. I had a copy of Destroy All Humans! 2; my grandma and mom were freaking out from the back of the box showing humans being obliterated and the content descriptions of "sexual themes and violence."
 
Mom didn't want me and my brother playing Soul Calibur because she thought it was "Soul Caliber" and thought it was an FPS somehow. I don't know how you think that with the box art just spelling it out for you.
 
On of my earliest memories of life itself was having a snes that had a mortal kombat II cartridge that was officially "my dads" right before he put playing video games behind him to be a dad.

If I was ever caught playing MKII by my ma she'd remove it and tell me to play Kirby's dream course. Ironically I had no idea how to play golf or that it even was a golf game being just barley old enough to talk, walk and dress myself back then. (Maybe 3 and half or 4 no older than 5) but I took to button mashing till I heard the immortal cry of finish him! Like a duckling to water.
 
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