Wacky Witness Parent Rules

Here's one of my favorites:

My mother used to make me turn Sesame Street off when "the Count" came on because count Dracula was a real person who was under Satan's influence and drank blood.

What completely whacked out rules did your parents make for you growing up?

Good question. I'll have to think about this one. The only one I can remember off the top of my head is a sister who wouldn't watch Guys & Dolls because it was about the Salvation Army, but she would watch The Sound of Music, which is all about nuns. >_> some people. . .

Breakfast, now that is f-ed up.   No offense to your mom.

PERIODOTGREEN - none taken! 

we couldnt listen to Led Zeppelin cause if you played the record backwards it said: "I wuv Sway-tan" and "Sway-tan wuvs you!"

oh and the stock market was like gambling so anyone that bought stock's was the spawn of satan

ahh Jericho I've heard that one. My dad actually threw away all his Zep when he became a witness because of crap like that. And I guess Jimmy Page buying Aleister Crowley's old house had something to do with it as well.

Field Service every Saturday morning.   that was enough for me.  :(

Field Service every Saturday morning.   that was enough for me.  :(

My parent's though that Real Estate agents were disloyal to Jehovah because by selling houses in today's "system of things" they were really saying they did not believe that armageddon was coming. This belief lasted until my Uncle became a real estate agent (he was once the loudest critc)

Um, let's see... here's a ridiculous one: I remember as a teenager my sister-in-law snatching a fashion magazine out of my hand so that she could censor it first. She briskly flipped through page after page dramatically ripping out any salacious material, all under the watchful eye and nodding approval of my santimonious mother.

I could not read Harry Potter and this was when the Harry Craze was starting in the Late 90's. I als  could not watch Scooby doo or Dragon Ball Z which I did not like anyway.

Like good little witlesses we weren't allowed to celebrate anything, but somehow allowed to accept birthday and Christmas money from our unbelieving grandparents.

Huh?

I’m still scratching my head about that one.

Star Trek was off limits. We still watched it in secret when we could.

Anything disney because it had magic.  I heard of one sister who's mom wouldn't let her look at Dr. Suess books, because in her words "he was obviously on drugs when he wrote them"  

No WWF wrestling because it is violent

No "transformers" because they were violent

Remember the matchbox cars that you could crash into teh wall and then the front bumper would flip around displaying a bashed up side instead?  Well....those were off limits too

No magic

Music from boys taht looked like girls was frowned upon but we were still able to listen. (this was the 80s....what guy band didn't look like girls?)

No Michael jackson because he was apostate

No smurfs because of teh JW rumor that smurfs were demonic

no organized sports

We had a sister who inflicted her very limiting conscience on the rest of us.

No Disney, no Madonna, no trolls, no perfume, no ankle chains, no smiley face key rings, no air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror, no colouring pencils for little ones at meetings, no sweets before or after meetings in the hall. When we got our new hall with a kitchen she believed having a cup of tea in the hall was disrespectful to jehovah. She got squashed on that one but she pretty much ruled the roost.

No unicorns, they are demonic. I used to love unicorns when I was a little girl. My Mom was completely against them. She even went as far as to cut the horn off of a my little pony.  Luna