Recently, Reddit useru/kabosu_officialasked,“What was the dumbest rule from your Strict parents?”

The rules these parents came up with were certainly…creative.

Here are the strangest ones:

1.

Character from a show wearing a head wrap and patterned robe with text "MOTHER KNOWS BEST."

“Only one person is allowed to be sick at a time.

u/Tazzamaraz

2.

“No yawning allowed when doing homework.

Screenshot from "Euphoria"

Apparently, it meant that I was not interested in doing homework.”

u/FullM3TaLJacK3T

3.

“Dinner was at 5.

Peter, Lois, Meg, Stewie, and Chris Griffin sitting at the dining table in a scene from the animated show Family Guy

If you weren’t there, you didn’t eat.

I had a paper route in the evenings and weekends.

I missed a lot of meals.”

Screenshot from "The Breakfast Club"

u/CTnaturist

4.

She had moved there from Northwest Arkansas.

Her parents were really strict.

Damon and Stefan from The Vampire Diaries playing video games on a couch

u/smeapbave

5.

“If you had fun yesterday, you might’t have fun today.”

u/PenelopeAldaya

6.

Character Angelica from the animated series 'Rugrats', looking frustrated while standing in a playpen

My mom didnt like how the kitchen was dirty after I cooked.

Fast-forward to when I was 18, when she got upset that I could not cook.”

u/Not-From-Pakistan

7.

Screenshot from "Barbie"

“I could playMortal Kombat, but only with the sound off.

u/cardboardshrimp

8.

“I had to be back home by 10 p.m.

SpongeBob sitting at a picnic table looking disappointed, with Squidward standing behind the table

Even when I was 25.”

u/velvetblue929

9.

“I wasn’t allowed to watchRugratsbecause Angelica was mean.”

Two actors at a poker table in a scene, one with chips in hand, the other gesturing, with cards and chips on the table

u/riphitter

10.

“I was not allowed to ride my bike past the property line or the edge of the driveway.

The only exceptions were the times my friends randomly showed up and asked FOR me.”

u/kbyyru

11.

Not one second more.”

u/AdWonderful5920

12. u/luculia

13.

“My dad had a rule that we couldnt drink anything while we were eating dinner.

u/im_a_geese_goose

14.

“Me and my twin sister would both be punished if one of us did something wrong.

u/CutlassKitty

15.

“Card games are forbidden, because they make you an addicted gambler.

To this day I have problems with numbers and card games.”

u/Fabio170790

16.

“I wasn’t allowed to say the word fart.

I had to use the word ‘lovepuff.’

u/threekittycats

17.

“I was never allowed to have a friend older than me.”

u/112967398

18.

“You could only use four squares of toilet paper each time you went to the bathroom.

It didn’t matter if you had the runs or not.

Four squares was all you were allowed.”

u/cathline

19.And lastly, “I wasn’t allowed to eat anything with Devil in the name.

Devil’s Food Cake?

Not in this house.

Because of religion.”