Things Your Parents Said Were Illegal...

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Objection! My mother has never lied to me, according to my mother

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When I was roughly 10 my mom told me that adults didn't have to wear seatbelts. One day at school we had these driving safety people come in to class to talk to us. They asked us why adults don't wear seatbelts sometimes. I proudly told them that my mom said adults don't have to. They told me that was wrong... and I was very embarrassed. 😅

I vividly remember being about 9 years old, on a walk with my mom and the dog. We happened upon a house with an open mailnox, I guess I was worried about the person losing their mail, so I closed it (didn't touch anything else). My mom yelled at me saying it was a federal offense to touch someone else's mailbox. I didn't sleep for weeks, thinking the FBI was going to break into my house in the middle of the night and take me away.

My parents were more of the “don’t turn on that light in the back of the car because it makes it harder for me to see, you idiot” type

My mother didn't tell me it was illegal to drive with interior lights on, she just straight up told me it made it hard for her to see at night, and that's honesty I appreciate and seek to emulate.

I’m from Texas, and dealt with chronic health issues up until mid high school. I I had at least one Dr. appointment a week. My doctors always gave me official notes, kept in regular contact with the school district, and I was still threatened with truancy court. The district didn’t back off until my entire medical team sent a letter to the district, saying “Try it and see what happens.”

“Can you trust your parents with law” Me who’s mom is a lawyer: I sure hope so 😂

My brother lied to me and said it was illegal for me (a child at the time) to go in too forever 21, because I wasn’t 21. He just wanted to go to the video game store.

Both my parents were lawyers, so they never pulled the "it's illegal" card on me. However, their "because I said so" game was strong.

My mom was taken to court and fined because my brother refused to go to school, like she would drop him off, he would walk into the building wait till she drove off and then he would leave the premises. And even though she had video proof of dropping him off on a daily basis she was still fined. 😤

My teachers also used the “illegal to skip school” lie when I’d leave school early. When I explained to them that I’m their responsibility when I’m at school, and so it’s actually them if anyone who are breaking laws by letting me leave, they quickly stopped using that excuse. They did give me a lot of detentions for talking back and lecturing them on truancy law though…

The beauty of being born into a family where both my parents were lawyers is that they never lied to me about the legality of the car light being on. My dad just straight up said once "turn it off, dammit, it's wasting the car battery and it's distracting."

"Legal Eagle is here to replace your parents" ... Is this just a complicated way to get us calling you Law Daddy?

When I was in middle school I became obsessed with reading law books. After I started correcting them on their misunderstandings of the law they quit mentioning laws. Also, they frequently left me home alone, so that was a non-issue. Although this was pretty normal then; I’m from the “latch-key kid” generation.

This is actually my first time hearing that putting coins on a railroad track is illegal. Entirely contrary to this video, my mother grew up near train tracks, and still has a coin in her jewelry box from when she and her siblings would go over and do just that. She spoke of those times fondly.

See, my dad pointed out that, if we got in an accident and my feet were on the dash, the airbag would snap my legs like little toothpicks when the airbag deployed

My parents told me it was illegal to make phone calls after 9pm cause it was a breach of the peace. 😂 Backfired when I grew up and stopped calling them when I was out at night. Parents 0 - Laura 1

My parents actually told me and my siblings the truth. For example. The interior light. Dad always said that the reason he asked for us not to turn on the interior light unless it was important to do so was because it actually reflected on the rear-view mirror and made it hard for him to see vehicles behind him. It was for safety reasons we were not to have the interior light on unless we needed to. We grew up with having an honesty is the best policy home life and my parents reflected that to us because they wanted us to be honest with them. Didn't always work that way...kids being kids but this also made it a lot easier to feel that we could come to my parents with an issue and expect an honest answer which elevated trust between us all.