What Childhood Rules Did You Break?

when my sister and i were on vacation last year we didn't have a lot of rules. we were able to be out around like 3am just walking around in disney world because my sister and i were always on the phone every night with someone or we would go late night swimming because it was so hot.

As a child we all went or are going through the "rebellious stage". My mom would restrict certain candies or drinks due to the caffeine and sugar they contained. Well one time I convinced her to get my sisters and I a "cry baby" drink, this had tons of sugar. "...had gone feral, bouncing like pinballs between climbing structures in the built in play area." (Tsui). After my sisters and I had finished our drinks, my mom had told me we were bouncing off the walls like a set of wild monkeys. Since then she has made even more restrictions to what we can eat and drink- mind also she is a dentist assistant.

My family always goes on a big trip every summer for about 1 or 2 weeks and it's always really fun usually my brother and I don't have very many rules.

When we go on vacation we dont have many rules I hate the rule that we have to do chores evrey day and dont get paid

I'm still a kid and it basically says childhood, childhood, childhood so I can't write about my childhood because it's in progress.

The childhood rule that i broke was going in the closet getting a moon pie without asking

Personally, I think the courage to break a rule is noteworthy, as this willingness to amend a rule to make it more fair could be the next step in a child's life; the status quo must align with our paradigms, and if no one has the courage to break a rule for the better of society, we wouldn't be able to move forward effectively. When I was young, I always followed the rules, but what differed me from the other students was that I questioned the rules-why do we have to be respectful? Why shouldn't we interrupt someone speaking? Why are table manners so important? As a 15 year old, I understand the grand scale effects of these small rules, as respect and acceptance for all cultures and beliefs is necessary in a democracy. Since humans are naturally slightly self-serving, it's important to realize and acknowledge the flaw and change it, as our willful compromise ensures people aren't constantly talking on top of each other, blantantly ignoring what the other person has to say-in fact, many opportunities could be lost or unheard in the process. What's interesting about the Tsui article is that it is told on an adults standpoint, and what a kid is thinking is quite different from what a parent may perceive or falsely assume. However, rules are rules, and without concrete values that everyone shares (that would therefore be entrenched in the Constitution), society wouldn't function.

I felt happy when I read about the Tsui family rules, because it reminded me of when I used to go on vacations with my family. We would go to Disneyland we would stay up late on rides, we would eat a ton of ice cream, and we would jump on the hotel beds because we were to hyper to go to sleep, we would overall act like we were inconspicuous. The times that my childhood rules weren’t in affect were when we were on summer break, and when my parents were having too much fun to enforce the rules. I remember breaking rules as a child, I broke a few items and windows in the house because I was bored. Sometimes my brother and I were as wild as a couple of bucking broncos. “Inside the adjacent children’s car, our 6- and 3-year-old sons, Felix and Teddy, had gone feral, bouncing like pinballs between climbing structures in the built-in play area” (Gilpin 1) This reminded me of when me and my brother would be very excited to go on vacation, or travel to somewhere I have always wanted to go.

I feel that not having rules like in the tsui family on vacation is fine but there should be a few rules. When I was 4-years-old I went to I really fun beautiful place called Disney land with my mom and 2 brothers. My mom said that they're was only on rule and it was to stay close, but I was afraid that I was going to get lost so I wore a harness. "That sometimes it's fine to throw out the rules." I feel that you should not throw out rules because things could get gruff and hard to get back to having rules. The only times in my life that the rules were dropped was when my dad went to the state of Washington over the summer of 2012 and i was home alone most of the day so I would be able to do what ever I wanted to do. So I would jump on my soft brown and black couches and eat all the junk food I want to. In conclusion rules should be applied all the time unless there like 16-years-old then maybe it's fine.

My brothers and I would always break the rules. We would sneak food into our rooms, play ball in the house and jump on the beds. When we would get in trouble we would try to ease the harsh punishment and it never really work. We tried to ask if they ever did something like that. " That sometimes it’s fine to throw out the rules." (Tsui, 1). It was fun like a water park.

This article appealed to me because I remember when I was little i never really did anything to get in trouble on my own. it was always me and my older sister. it was more of a monkey see, monkey do kinda thing and then i would get in trouble as well because i chose to go along with what Ali did even when i knew that it was wrong and i knew the consequences...and it would never be anything big. just sneaking a brownie or cookie here or there and not telling anyone. the worst i ever did was break my sister's arm. In my defense, she asked me to push her....it is not my fault she fell on her arm wrong!! but Ali swears she never told me i could push her

I thought it was pretty cool how the kids didn't have rules. I have always had my parents enforce rules everywhere twenty-four seven. I used to have times when my parents would bend the rules. For example, when I started getting older, my bedtime got later and later. I don’t necessarily understand why they made it later, but I liked staying up at the time. Nowadays, I want to go to sleep at like seven every night. As a child, I wasn’t much of a rule breaker. One rule I always broke was getting out of taking a nap. Before my nap, I would watch my favorite television show. Afterwards, my mom would come in and turn off the television for me to nap. Secretly, I would wake up and turn the television back on. Again, nowadays I would love to take naps. I feel that the Tsui family’s idea of no rules was good, but it could turn bad. The kids could rebel and just never follow rules again. That would result in conflict.

Childhood Rules:

When I was a child, my mom’s biggest rule was to pick up my toys after I was finished playing with them. Most parents try to put this rule into play, but more often than not, children like me, choose to ignore the rule in hopes of getting away with it. In my younger days, I had many, many toys. When I played with them, I played hard, so toys were always scattered around my room. Sometimes, they were so scattered that getting in and out of my room was nearly impossible it seemed like, but I didn’t care. I just continued to play, and sometimes used the piles of toys in my room as an “obstacle course” which only made making messes with my toys even more

I am an only child and my parents do not really know what rules they need to set until I do something bad. When I do something kind of bad or rude, they have to think a while and their response is usually "Do that again and you will see what happens." Most mistakes I only make once. They want me to be asleep by 10 every school night, and I end up awake until 11 at the earliest. They never say anything even though I am sure they notice. Listening to the Tsui family's experience, I relate heavily. My parents are kind of relaxed during normal days, but on vacation they do not really care what I do as long as I am back with them when the end of the day comes. What I mean by that is that they trust me to do whatever I want on vacation and still make it back safe. The moral of my story is that there don't have to be rules if you just do what's right and stay away from trouble.

I picked this article because it reminds me of all the bad things that I had done as a kid. I did many things that I shouldn’t have done, that was against the rules in the house. The worst thing that I did that was against the rules was go to the pool in the backyard. My grandparents have always told me that going through the fence to get to the pool would get me in trouble. Well when I was about seven me and my mom were outside on the porch watching over my sister. I had the brilliant idea to go to the fence to see the pool. The gate was open so I went inside and was walking along the edge of the pool. I fell in and could swim a little because my uncle had thrown me in the pool before and told me swim or die. (He wasn’t really going to let me drown). I ended up learning how to swim that day and it probably saved my life. When I fell into the pool I started screaming and my mom jumped in the pool and got a cramp but still got me out.

I am the youngest in my family. I have grown up with an older brother and an older sister. I never really got into any trouble simply because I would watch my brother and sister so that I could see what they would be doing that got them into trouble. Since I did that, I was able to not do those things or I had would figure out how to not get caught. I also have always hated getting in trouble with my parents because I would hate it when they were not mad, but disappointed in me, so I would always try to do what they asked me too. As I have gotten older, I have been getting more and more chores that I absolutely hate doing. Although, now that both my brother and sister have left for college, I get spoiled more and I do not have to do as much work around the house. Overall, I had a very good childhood.

In the article that I chose it was “What childhood rules did you break?”. This article seemed very interesting and I feel like it fit me because I was a bad little kid. As a kid or child I’m sure every single kid has broken a rule whether it was from “don’t talk” and the kid did or “sit down” and you wouldn’t sit down. I am the oldest sibling out of two of us. When I first went into pre-k I was so scared and it was really hard for me to get use to everything. First off Spanish being my first language and everyone at school spoke English. It honestly all scared the hell out of me. I was scared, but after all of that and after getting used to everyone and all the English I started being bad. Bad as in, I wouldn’t sit down, I was really hyper all the time, I talked all the time to everyone. Literally none of my teachers could keep me still and keep me doing my work. Well this is my prompt and in my opinion every child breaks at least one rule whether it’s the smallest one or the biggest one. I broke the rules as a kid.

Childhood rules

Most of my childhood I was a good kid. I never really did anything that I wasn’t supposed to do. Until I go to the age of seven I was a good kid, I never broke the rules I always did what I was supposed to do then one day I just didn’t care anymore. I didn’t care about doing my chores or I would jump and do flips on the bed or I would not listen to them in general. Back then I didn’t see the point in rules and I thought they were pointless. Now that I’m fifteen I still break the rules. I still jump on the bed even though I still hit my head from time to time even though I’m barley five feet tall. I still don’t listen to them most of the time. I think that my attitude towards my chores has gotten worse. They got worse when they started to add more chores for us to do like feed the dogs, do the laundry, sweep and mop the floor, polish the furniture, and my least favorite chore of all time is to feed and water the chickens. I hate the chickens but I have to do it because if I don’t then my dad will yell at me and I don’t feel like hearing him yell. There’s somedays where I will do them good and not have a problem with doing them, and then there’s other days where I’m like I do not want to do these chores. Most of the time when I don’t feel like doing them I don’t, which is basically every day. What’s different about me is I will dread doing a chore but when I actually do it, it’s not bad at all.

People without rules are like cars without brakes this is my best example. Children should learn how to follow rules, and parents should create discipline and habits in connivance with the society. Is very important parents teach kids basic rules by example: cleaning their rooms, respecting others peoples belongings, no lies, brush teeth, helps their mother when she has visitors, don’t steal, and don’t be lazy. With these of basic rules parents are building great behavior and avoiding a lot of problems in theirs children’s life in the future.
I was a typical ruler follower all my life. I think I was limited to discovered many good and bad things. But I always want my mother to be happy with me. My friends always broke rules all the time and they get satisfied with their adventures. Rules are rules and we had better keep it.

In my neighborhood when I was child I remember one time my parents told us do not go far away from the family’s house. We did not pay attention to what they said something bad has been happened to us. Why it’s important to listen to your parents. This experience with rules as a small child still in my mind and I learn about that. This reason we have always to listen to your parents even if they are old or not.
Madeline Ruben

I think it is very important to speak about rules in life. When I was a little boy. I didn’t understand the rules of my life. I did the things to make me happy only because I didn’t practice the rules. I did a lot of bad thing in my life. My mother used to beat me every single day because I never give up doing that. I liked to play soccer, but my mother didn’t like it. The rules were very strong for me. I was not a good boy because I wanted to go out to play, but my mother she didn’t like it. She couldn’t control me .Some children can break a lot of rules inside the society even enough the parents can take attention about their children. The children can do different things that parents taught them.

The rules from the parents to us are the way that they protect us. When you parents put any rules to you is because they want the best for you. I know that if you break that rule something bag is going happen. When I was, children I had many rules. My mother was very strict and I can’t watch the TV until late or if I went out with my friends I had to arrive at five o’clock among others. If I broke some of those rules my mother was very angry and punished however I thank her because she made the person that I am.

I remembered my breaking rules in middle school. When I was in middle school, I used to live in hostel. Everyone knows that hostel restrictions are strict. You have to stay underneath all rules. If you attempt to break rules, they will give you a punishment. That time hostel rules were not allowed to bring outside food. During that time, we had long winter vacation. I and my friend were planning to bring outside food in hostel after the winter vacation. We brought a lot of snacks with us and hided them under our bed. After that day we had to go in our classes. We didn’t know that teacher was checking our room. They found our snacks under the bed. Suddenly they called us in the principle office and they also called our parents to talk about this case. We were terrified as death and went into principle office. We were stand there front of principle and parents. The Principle given warns us not to do that again. We both felt relieve and apologized to the principle but when our parents left. Principle given us a punishment which was cleaning all the dirty bathrooms in the hostel and we accepted our punishment. Even though it was fun and left me a good memory about me and my friend. That was my rule breaking story.

When I was 13 years old, I went friend’s house to watch a soccer game between Brazil and Argentine. At the last minutes Brazil won the thopphy and I was very happy for that and I broke the chair I was sat, my father’s friend complaint with me and my mother beat me.

When I read what childhood di you break? By Caroline Crosson Gilpin about Tsui Family I feel like when I was a child because when I was child I broke many rules like Tsui Family, I remember when I was 12 years old I was supposed to get out from school and straight to my house but one day I broke that rule I went to another place and my mother saw me and when I got home my mother hit me and I’ve never done something like that.

Reading this article reminds me remember my childhood and the moments that I thought had forgotten. My mom always had basic rules, such as we cannot go out during the week because she said that we had to concentrate on our studies and our responsibilities. We had to clean the house if we wanted to go out. My mom used to give my brothers and me a limit time when we were outside. Those and other basic rules my mom used to keep respect, order, responsibility and obedience in our house. Nevertheless, I have always been a quiet and obedient girl. I did not have many friends, so it allowed more to follow the rules. Soon became in like a leader in the house. I helped my mom raise my brothers and give them a good example of their sister. The only rule-breaking story that I remember was when I was Elementary school with my brother. I was in the 5th grade and my brother was in the 4th grade. My mom used to tell us that when the day was cold or rainy, my brother and I should waited for Mom to pick us up. However, we disobeyed her order. When we got home, my mom was really angry and started to yell at us because we were wet and coughing. She said that every time we coughed, she was going to hit us with a belt because we should have been waiting for her. Every time I remember that makes me feel nostalgic because my childhood was beautiful and innocent.

Childhood is a first step to learn. In that time we become so curious. We want to know everything. Child loves to break rules. Parents always make rules to protect their children. Every child should follow this. But that time we don’t have so much maturity. We make some wrong decision. When I was child I broke some rules. My parents punished me a lot and I felt so angry that time. But now I can realize that it was good for me. Parents have rights to punish their children. All parents should make some rules for their children. It’ll be protecting their child.

I am the youngest of my siblings. I grew up with three older sisters, so I got more attention. My oldest sister was the worst, because she was the first, so she set the boundaries for us. I didn’t break rules as a child, because I saw my sister getting into trouble and it never seemed fun. I have always been a good child, so my mom tells me. My mom was strict, but being a rule-follower it wasn’t a boring childhood. I got to play outside until the street lights came on, and I knew I was supposed to be home. My dad was intimidating when I was a child, so I learned to listen at a young age.

This article reminds me of my childhood behavior. I remember that I was a rule follower because I was a shy and obedient boy. I also did not have many friends, so I did not have anybody to tell me to do something that could break any rules. From my own experience, rules did not bother me as a child. My mother taught me that rules would help me to grow up as a good man and they did. My parents always told me to do my homework, take a shower at 6:00 pm, keep my room organized and also clean the back yard of the house. I always followed these rules and today I can say that following those rules truly helped me.

When I was a child my parent was very hard on me they are so many rules and I had to follow all if not I get punished sometime I feel so mad because there is too much to do like before I go to school every morning I have to clean my room and go over my homework .if one day I did not do it when I came from school I got punish by making me do them first before I did anything.i used to hate it.

Parents have a big responsibility with their kids, they want all the better for them. Parents are not only friends, examples and providers for their kids. Parents are authority in their house. In the process of raising their children, parents need to implement rules which should be obey for their kids to avoid their problems, bad consequences and to educate good kids. When I was in the elementary school, I remember that I got bad scores in my report card, I was very scared for my mom and I destroyed my report. The next day in the morning I didn’t go to school instead I went to the street and I spent all the day alone, without to measure the danger. I was in second grade.

In life children can break rules because, they still don’t know the basic things to keep the rules. When I was a child, I used to neglect my duties my parents told me to do. helps take my brother to school and not be able to come back home on time and other kind of crazy stuff. I used to sneak out in the night without informing them my way about. Sometime be away from home many days.

In my generation, in my country we don’t really break rules in the house, because we are going to be whipped. Unlike this generation that only gets time out or something special taken away from them for a period of time. While growing up, I was the lazy type and always hate when i am told to do any kind of house chores. I was brought up by my grandparents. My grandmother the strict one and my grandfather the affectionate one. Anytime my grandmother asked me to do any chore and I didn’t and I would run to my grandfather for protection from being whipped.y grandmother the strict one and my grandfather the affectionate one. Anytime my grandmother asked me to do any chore and I didn’t and I would run to my grandfather for protection from being whipped.

When I was a child , I was definitely a rule-breaker I think I have never followed rules , I take them and turn them in my own way . It does not mean that I’m always wildly going is just that I think that only rules that make sense must be followed. I like to respect because I like to be respected but I don’t like to be abused so if you want me to obey an order or rule it must be fair and just, since I was a kid I’ve always questioned the way rules have been done, because I think that not everyone can follow them on the same way , and I don’t feel it like is wrong , is just the way it has to be.

I have a similar experience of Tsui family. When I was about 9 years old, I had many friends whose were rule breakers. One of them told me to go to get some mangoes in a tree that was on a plot that was forbidden to enter. Our parents did not want that we go there. But it was exciting to know that we were doing something that nobody could do it. Adrenaline was running in our veins. I believe that it was special time. It is because we cannot do it now. Before our parents gave their faces by us, but right now we are adult and we must give our faces by ourselves. I was a child who did not break rules many times. But I might let my children can break some rules.

While I was reading the story, some images of my childhood came up in my head. Breaking the rules was part of me. When I was a child, I used to break many rules. One of my favorite was playing in places that I was not allowed to be in. When my grandmother asked me to do my homework, I frequently lied because it was not my interest at that time. At school the teachers sent me to the director`s office a couple of times and the director had to call my home because I was suspended from class. It happened many times until I entered high school.

As a child I was very perfectionist and would try to follow the rules as much as I could. Looking back I think that was not much of a good thing, children need to experiment with their environment and their own boundaries. Kids that challenge their limits are more probable to live more exciting and interesting experiences as adults. I think that breaking rules while being a child does not determinate that the kid is going to be a troublemaker. It is just a natural experience that they need to live so they can learn to not restrain themselves in the future. Everything in excess is bad, of course, but I personally do not think that breaking rules like going to sleep a little later, or eating more cookies than allowed, is a prelude of how bad kids are going to be.

When we were little children we always wanted to break rules, just to see what is going to happen after break the rule. Nowadays many families are built with rules, each member of that family have one, for example in my cousin’s family her little children have to go to bed at 8:30 pm, and watch television until 7:00pm, but sometimes they break this rules and my cousin punish them, once I asked them why do you break the rules?, and the answer was “I want to see mommy angry because is kind of funny”. When I was a child I used to followed the rules, but sometime I used to broke them for example when my mother told me go to bed and turn off your television I was always put the volume down and I try to be quiet. Once she told me go to the supermarket and buys some milk and brings me the changes, but instead of keeping the change to my mother I use to buy things for me that day my mother punishment for three month. Sometimes is kind of funny to break the rules but at the same time we have to follow and respect the rules, because then we can have a better style of life where we are living.

In my opinion, children always want to break rules, but they just break the rules when they don’t like it. Even though parents always make rules to protect or control their children, but children will break them if they don’t want to follow them. When I was a child, I used to break many rules. Also those rules were simple rules like to sleep early, eat all my food and to do all my homework. Parents want to make rules just to protect their children of something that they think it is not good for them. We need to understand that children will break rules that they don’t want to do, but we need to adapt to these complications and try to make a better effort for them.

I still remember when I was a child and my mother punished me because I did many bad things like be late at home, smoke etc. But she never gave me rules about things, rules do not do anything, anyone can break them. I was only learning about what I did badly and my mother punished me very strong and taught me not to do that anymore.

When I was little I had many rules were put upon me, considering I had strict parents. One of the rules was I couldn't eat anything after 8 PM. Other rules were not being able to jump on the bed, run around the house, or open my parents' drawers. If I did break any of those rules my parents would become very gruff. Thats why I was such an angel around them, but once they weren't around I was like a destructive little monster. I always thought rules were stupid and had no meaning, especially the really dumb ones. I was willing to break all the rules just not get caught. "...Teddy, had gone feral, bouncing like pinballs between climbing structures in the built-in play area." (Tsui, 1)

I totally used to be a rule-breaker. I would break the rules, stretch the truth, and get my phone taken away. But I learned that being grounded wasn't that fun. Usually my grades were a ramshackle. To my parents and teachers I was a menace. I was treated like i just did an imputation. "...a transformation of our boys into a special breed of excitable baby werewolf..."(Caroline Gilpin) pretty much described me in one sentence.

i had a whole lot of rules in my house when we were young. and i always thought to myself will i get in trouble today for breaking this rule. one of the rules in our house was never to take food outside the kitchen, but i always broke that rule and ate in my room. before i took the food in my room i always thought to myself should i do this will i get caught. and every time i did it i felt pseudo.

From the time I was born until I was thirteen years old my bedtime was always 8:30 pm. Of course I never actually went to bed that early because I would be playing on my tablet,texting my friends on my phone, or watching Netflix on my computer. Its like my brain wouldn't give me a break it was insatiable with the amount of time I stayed up."Were you a rule follower? A rule breaker? Or did you fall somewhere in between?"(Gilpin 1) I would say that I am somewhere in between because I always followed the rules when it came to my safety or the safety of others.

i have definitely had my share of rules at my house. Sometimes it feels like i'm going to be suffocated by all of them. But i have learned to live with it. I can usually be the kid that breaks the rules. But i have learned that it isn't worth spending my time grounded.

When i was younger i broke rules in the house. Don't jump on the couch,don't stand on the couch,and don't stand in front of the television. "Or did you fall somewhere in between? What was your experience with rules as a small child". My parents were mostly inconspicuous when i broke the rules. I was like 5-years-old when these rules applied.

I have broken so many rules as a child. My childhood was very gruff, I was very inconspicuous, and I had to deal with my dad when I got home every night. when I was 7-years old i always wanted to break rules. I always wanted to steal from my parents. "Did you have any rules handed down to you when you were a small child?" (Davis, 1).