Growing up with strict parents :P

If you have really strict parents, then you can totally relate yourself to this post.

The way strict parents deal with their children is very different from how the liberal parents deal with their kids. That is why we, kids of strict parents, think twice or thrice or even a hundred times before doing something toofaani. Because if our parents find out about it, we are royally jacked.

In Hollywood movies, we see the concept of detentions or timeouts, but our parents laugh at that idea. :P They have a totally different way of dealing with situations. As a kid, our parents dealt with us slapping us if  we did not listen to them.  You didn't eat your vegetables, PHAT! You get hit on your head which causes immense fear and pain and the sudden urge to eat all the vegetable from the plate. :P

Our parents are PhD’s in child psychology. They know how to get something done by us. They know what scares us and what doesn’t. Starts with stares, followed by shouting, screaming and if you still do not listen to them, then you’ll be treated with slaps and blows. This fear has made us the best liars on the planet. :P

From ‘Never going for sleepovers’ to ‘Never going to for trip with friends’, the struggle of growing up with strict parents is way too real.  

During the summer break, when all our friends went to other cities and countries for holiday, ours always happened to be a temple tour. Don’t even dare questioning or arguing with them on this.

Yes, I do not deny the fact that our parents care so much about us, look out for us and are very considerate. However, we get so frustrated at the same time because we can’t meet our friends often, can’t go for night outs, can’t go out for the whole day….. can’t do anything remotely fun.

So, here’s a very common scenario that happens at almost every strict parent’s house.

Child: Amma, can I go out with my friends today?

Amma: Go ask your dad!

Child: Appa, can I go out with my friends today?

Appa: Friends? Who friends? Why friends? Why do you keep going out? Can’t you sit at home? When will you be back? Come home soon. *With the irritated look*

Our friends who have liberal parents do not understand our situations. Even though our parents already say no, our friends tell us “ask them why”, “ask them again”. So sometimes we tell our friends that our parents did not give us permission to go out even without asking them for approval, because we know that it would anyway be a no.

And oh yes! You are not allowed to close your bedroom door. If you happen to do so, they will anyway come and open it. So, it’s better you leave it that way. Sometimes, they happen to sneak around in your room during the night, just in case they can catch you talking to some person over phone. And if this happens, you will be interrogated and lectured for hours together.

Some of the things we face or do while growing up with strict parents are:

• Rehearsing what you are going to say for about an hour before you ask your parents to go somewhere
• Changing all boy’s names into girls in your phone so that they don’t question you
• Put our phones always on silent when we are at home. Cause if anyone calls, you’ve to give your parents huge explanations as to what the call was about.
• We get a mini heart attack whenever they ask us to give them our phone, though sometimes we do not have anything to actually hide from them.
• If you have strict parents, there’s no such thing as last minute plans.