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Growing Up With Strict Parents

A life devoted to those who expect no and early curfews.

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Growing Up With Strict Parents
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Then on the eighth day God created strict parents with rules escalating throughout the years. Our generation never seems to stop complaining about the unfairness of this world, but one hashtag that has been circling this week has an understating most young adults can get behind — #GrowingUpWithStrictParents. Being a child of a lieutenant, this was a source of my Friday night entertainment, reading tweet after tweet of some of the most relatable material going through high school. The tempting words of “just sneak out,” “it is just a party,” or “they do not have to know,” as if strict parents do not have a sixth sense about this. How does one just sneak out?

Working up the courage to ask for a night out.

We all know the answer will most likely be no. If in the rare case the answer is yes then the typical lines of “Where will you be going?” "Who is going be there?” “What time will you be home?” “Are their parents going to be there?” “Will there be drinking?” start pouring out like a game of 20 questions. After taking this pop quiz the final statement of yes may or may not have just turned into the original no. Maybe just wait to one of them is in a good mood. Whatever you do just do not I repeat do NOT miss a call from mom, otherwise you will receive 16 missed calls and eight new voice messages.

Curfews

Going into high school most normal curfews were set at 10 p.m., maybe even midnight (if you were one of the lucky ones). After partying with your best friends the time rolls around as you get the “you going to turn into a pumpkin at midnight” jokes. The three pocket pat down for your keys, wallet and phone turns into leaving early as your mom leaves 13 missed calls in your voicemail. Apparently, the curfew changed to 9 p.m. three hours ago and it is now 11 p.m. so good luck. Soon little one college will be good to you and maybe ~just maybe~ you can stay out till 1 a.m.…imagine.

Life Lessons

As someone who gets excited over the smallest things, doing something even remotely close to illegal (fun) ends in a life lesson. Something as simple as backflipping into a pool or pool noodle jousting through a sprinkler or climbing baseball roofs all seems to make the world come to an end. You can defend yourself all you want but you know that speech in going in one ear and out the other.

Excuses

Now comes the best part of it all. Going through these tweets seeing the amount of lies and excuses that try and throw off strict parents are hilarious. Ranging from “my hamster died this is an emergency” to calling and fake crying over a made up relationship. In the event of this happening and it actually works be prepared for a picture of the current situation as the scenario may have it, parents ask for pictures. So that hamster that's dead? Better go to the fifth page of google to find a dead rodent. Better make sure her mascara is running and a half carton of ice cream is gone before sending the picture to your birth givers. If not the squad may just have to do this party without you.

On this last note one important thing to remember is that parents would not be strict if they did not love you. Later down the line, maybe even as parents ourselves, this is all supposed to makes sense as one big lesson. Also just think, they probably snuck out as a child and did the things they force you not to. So really it's all about walking in their footsteps and learning the hard way! Making choices to learn from for later in life? Right?

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