It's not even the sheltering, it's the responsibility to teach life skills that the parents should have done. Being sheltered has nothing to do with not knowing that metal doesn't go in a microwave
There’s a show called World’s Worst Mom that gets into the behind the scenes of this behavior. Many of he parents have unresolved traumas that cause them to overreact in an almost OCD like manner.
@@lovely1641 bro I’m sure it literally does. Anyone raised in a conventional family would likely have that skill. Parents who keep their kids sheltered are so much more likely to stop their kids from doing their own chores.
coming from a place that was horrible and being concerned about their children's well-being to the point where they don't even trust their children to take care of themselves, blind familial love that's pathologically caring without the slightest foresight about what happens when they die and their child has to fend for themselves. My parents came from Cuba and communism pretty much destroyed the country so putting your child in a bubble from the outside world even if it's illogical and doesn't facilitate character growth or anything like that or how to deal with problems head on is not important to them they will totally act like that character from Dragon Ball z chichi You know the one overbearing mother It's a combination of things my parents very religious except for my dad who stopped being religious. My mother didn't really care so much as do as little as possible to facilitate my development as in we didn't go out anywhere we only went to church so I wasn't exposed to much and we only had Public Access television which was like 10 channels and the other 40 were just static and barely Audible conversations and commercials my knowledge of the outside world was AM radio since that usually got through reliably enough.
Sheltering is such a backwards concept... "I am going to prepare my child for the world by hiding them from the world and teaching them nothing about the world"
@@benja303 I understand wanting to protect your kid from harm. But there's a fine line between just making sure they don't get themselves killed because they're doing something that is actually harmful and protecting them from everything altogether. I have a niece and am the godfather of my nephew. I see them run in the house and I keep worrying that they'll bump their heads hard on the dinner table. I warn them to be careful but I know they'll hurt themselves and it's this kind of experience they need to learn, even if it's going to be unpleasant for them as well as for me because then I have to deal with a screaming crying child. If anything, I reckon one of the reasons why parents are so over protective is to avoid having to deal with a screaming child in the first place, so they protect them and enable them just not to deal with boo boos and tantrums. They aren't doing their job as parents, plain and simple.
My aunt couldn't have kids, so she adopted 3 girls and proceeded to do everything in her power to "protect their innocence". They were never allowed to wear anything "revealing", were forced to go to church services and Bible studies multiple times a day, and we're never allowed to go to school functions, dances, field trips, or travel for fear they would "run into boys and sin". They had all of these restrictions on them until they turned 18 and left the house. The first one fell madly in love with the first loser she met out in the real world, had 2 kids with him before learning a very hard lesson about unhealthy relationships. The second one went crazy as soon as she left the house, was constantly clubbing, getting involved in drugs and gangsters, popped out about 6 kids before returning to live in her mother's garage and is still just getting by. The third one was so afraid of going out into the real world that she lived with her parents well into her 30s before her father told her she needed to go live her life.
I'm "self sheltered". I avoided stuff so i wouldn't get in trouble and now i'm an introvert. My mom always encouraged me to go out and whatnot. I usually don't. It took me forever to understand basic things that weren't taught.
I'm almost the same... my mom showed me about the "worldly" things from a young age (4-7 years old), that by the time I was 8 I was too worried about murders, sex trafficking, people who abuse their friends/family, and I became so frightened that anyone around me would "snap" and become a murderer (I read so many criminal cases from my aunt who is an attorney and watched so much CSI as a little girl and I think that made me so scared of people). So I self-isolated, and later my mom wanted me to go out with kids my age as a teen, but by that time kids were just into partying, drugs and sex, and I avoided them like the plague.
Yeah was raised with highly, extroverted embarrassing parents and family members with very little filters. The other extreme of the families in the video. And I became self sheltering much to their disdain.
Also self sheltering. I did not ever talk to another student in school, unless it was strictly work related. I still do not have a single friend. The only place where I talk is on forums where I don't know anyone else and I am certain my family will never find me. The only exception was that I was allowed to ride my bike on public roads, as long as there was never a destination.
I met a girl in similar circumstances. Her parents 100% were just using her for slave labor. She was borderline illiterate, no drivers license, basically couldn't function independently. Her parents had set her up to be incapable of leaving them so that they could keep exploiting her.
This started out funny, but got more and more depressing with each story. The stories themselves didn’t get any worse, but rather the cumulative effect of realizing how unprepared these poor people would be to survive on their own got to be too much to ignore. Let your kids learn to be people, for fucks sake!
I have a friend who just about needs me or her mom to do everything for her. That includes giving a waitress your order, asking a store employee for help, me asking her mom if SHE can go do something. She doesn't do anything on her own! She's horrible with money, manners, has no common sense. She's a giant toddler! But god forbid, you tell her ANY of this to try to help her like hoooo boy she LOSES HER SHIT-
@@jadas8686 because she's not a bad person. She was suuuuper sheltered. Not by her mom, but her grandparents. She lived with them and they did everything for her and didn't teach her anything. I am her only friend. Literally. Her *only* friend. If I just cut her out of my life, I'll feel awful.
It's debatable but I think some of these stories arguably cross that line. To some degree parents have the right to raise their children how they want, but I feel withholding basic knowledge and skills needed to cope with the modern world comes close to negligence if not outright mental abuse.
I would say as soon as it interferes with them having a normal life. Like if a mother wants them to never have dairy because "we don't do that in this house," that would be considered sheltering but is also bad enough to be considered a form of abuse (due to risk of malnutrition caused by an entire food group missing from child's diet).
@@novatheenby8779 I'll agree with you, and I might add the point where they cause their children to be incapable to functionally work as an adult because they simply have no idea of how things work or how to do even the most basic things such as boiling water or choosing your clothes
I'd say all of the time. Sheltering does nothing but make it harder for people to adapt to the real world and in my mind actively making your child's life worse is abusive. And just to clarify sheltering and basic protectiveness are not the same thing. It's protective to keep knives away from your 5 year old to prevent them from being a danger to themselves and others but it's sheltering to cut your 15 year olds food for them because you don't want them using any kind of knife.
I will forever wonder what parents think they’re accomplishing by sheltering their kids from the world. Like do genuinely believe you can keep them safe from every danger in the world for their entire life?
I guess, they are afraid of all the bad things that can happen to a child. When my daughter went to elementary school, I was afraid, too, and it was only 800m away. Of course I let her walk alone, but I was always very relieved when she came back in the afternoon!
@@solidstate9451 this I understand and you’re not being overly protective of her in this scenario, what I don’t understand is the parent who takes their child’s door away and monitors their phone activity and won’t let them stay over at friends’ houses
When I was like 9 I was watching spongebob and the panty snatcher episode came on and my mom was in the room. She banned me from watching it after that and it was probably two years after until I was allowed to watch it again. That’s understandable tho. Definitely a more mature episode than what it’s rated for
man i feel you. i feel like growing up sheltered is what gave me two very conflicting traits: im both socially anxious due to my poor social skills and yet still somehow really extroverted and bold. i get scared of trying anything or going anywhere new but in my comfort zone ive learned to be what id say is normal. i think the best thing you can do is just keep making yourself uncomfortable until everywhere becomes your comfort zone if that makes sense. get out of the shelter so to speak. but its easier said than done, going to a restaurant alone sounds like hell to me still lol
I feel like I had seen too much stuff growing up try as they may my parents tried to shelter me, but the real world doesn’t care what happens to anyone. Young, old, man, woman, rich, and poor. What I learned last year was something called Attachment Theory. There is a channel called Craig Kenneth. With the video playlist called: Understanding Attachment Styles, Traumas, and Injuries. It was eye opening to see and learn this because no one taught me these things even my parents and grandparents. Once learned, practiced, and applied I cured my Anxiety and completely changed my life for the better. Best to you in life as well. Take care.
I wasn't sheltered but my social skills are shit because bullying in school broke me down. I still look like a teen and am literally afraid that if I go somewhere without another person, random teens might bully me. Totally unreasonable, I know.
When I was a swim coach, I had this sophomore girl who's parents had never taught her about menopause and scared her into thinking tampons took away her virginity. The poor thing thought she'd be a 90 year old woman still getting her period and pregnant. My former best friend had to be taught how to do laundry, dishes, make simple meals, make her bed, etc before she left for college. Until she moved out, she had never been able to watch the news, listen to any music aside from Disney/musicals/opera, watch anything rated over PG, date, try any alcohol, and more. Actually, she didn't date until she was almost 30 and married her first bf. I was also very sheltered. I wasn't allowed to play video games, stay overnight anywhere, stay home alone, go out with friends without solid plans to be doing productive activities as just "hanging out" wasn't allowed, I had to have a sport after school, I couldn't have a house key, I had to be ready to have my phone or car taken away/searched at any time for any reason, I couldn't sleep past 9am, couldn't have a shower curtain, no locks on any doors/wasn't allowed to even have some doors, could never keep passwords to myself, I could never get really much privacy, and a lot more. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, I've had to move back in with my parents. I'm 34 and I have moved out many times, did the college thing, and have a job to pay my bills, and I'm now back to basically having to obey 95% of the old rules 🙃 yay! But I put up with it because I can't go back to living in my tiny car; so I'm grateful for that lol.
My mom didn’t let me wash my own hair until I was 9. I do have very thick and somewhat curly,frizzy hair. I wasn’t allowed to walk anywhere without my parents until I was very old,even though we lived in such a small town. Nevermind I’m thankful even though my parents babied me I did miss out on a little but I’m grateful I’m not like these kids. I was taught basic life skills at least
My daugther is 10 and still can't wash her hair properly. But she always walked alone to elementary school. It's only 800m away. And when she recently took the wrong bus to her new school , she walked 4 km home. We live in a city with a population of 200 000.
@@solidstate9451 Kids not being allowed outside without an adult breathing down their neck sadly seems to be the norm in America. To the point where they call the cops when they see an "unsupervised" child of 10. Personally, I find that to be a much bigger issue than not having TV, banning certain shows, not having a cell phone. I got a lot out of being outside without an adult as a child, way more than you'd get from watching Spongebob, which seems to be the biggest tragedy to some commenters, like really.
@@solidstate9451 I don't even own a TV anymore and I didn't burst into flames. It is disturbing how attached adults still are to things like TV. To the point where "not being allowed to watch TV" is the thing they cling onto in this video as "OMG, the worst". Someone isn't "sheltered" and "not prepared for life" just because they don't sit in front of a box entertaining them every day. In fact, if you don't sit in front of that box/always stare into a screen, you get to see more of actual real life. But of course you are already "the worst" if you don't get your kids Disney+ now. But then the same people will complain about pampered kids. Um, you pamper your own in a different way, folks.
@@mchobbit2951 My son cried because he was so bored. Shortly after he sew a truck awning for his playmobil truck... He wouldn't have come to this idea if he wasn't bored as hell and would have been allowed to watch TV.
Holy cow, it's like these parents are trying to raise a whole generation of Carrie Whites. Pleasantly surprised by how positive/supportive most of the posts are, instead of "X was such a weirdo."
I've seen it a lot in people with mental disabilities. Maybe their parents didn't care to let them experience much of life out of fear of embarrassment or something, I don't fully know.
@@PrincessKLS true. At the same time however, I feel being overprotective will make them worse off in the long run. Being left unable to mentally or emotionally mature in any way.
I was raised by super religious parents, they thought Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh were satanic, they also hated the Simpson's and Spongebob. This was annoying but the worst part was they forced me to attend a really sexist and homophobic church. I also attended some objectively terrible church schools that were literally falling apart and was home schooled some and it was very isolating and my parents weren't good teachers, thankfully I got into public school for high school though. Anyway, in my teens, I just started rebelling behind my parents back and became atheist. I know this isn't as bad as a lot of the stuff here but I still felt very excluded from other kids for awhile.
You are me minus the church schools. Thank God i never went to church schools, i started public school at age 12 and ironically it was ghetto so i dove straight into the deep end
I wasn’t aloud to order my food at restaurant because “I might not like it” than my mom would order food she knew I didn’t like and argue that I did like it. Than yell at me and punish me for not eating it continued until I was 16. Also wouldn’t let me buy ice cream with my own money once when I was 15 because she was mad that my friend was rude to her during a field trip she was chaperoning.
I'm not sure if this counts, but in a college debate class, I actually used the term "Netflix and Chill" in my debate, and only realized it was a sexual euphemism when I was walking out the building.
i grew up sheltered myself, and it sucks badly. my parents sheltered me when i was still a child. they did everything for me, and i was never allowed to go outside to hang out with friends because my parents told me that school was the most important thing. i spent my childhood studying, and when i didn't study, i'd play alone because i had no friend at all. now as an adult, i'm great at the academic stuff, but i'm awful at everything else. aaaaand now my parents are blaming me because i struggle to do simple things like do laundry, cook food for myself, or even socialize with people. i'm turning 20 in a few months, and i'm still in the process of learning how to be a proper functioning person. hope i'll be able to do it quickly.
Even the person who is winging at socializing,still believes that he is not. Everyone is wearing a mask,believe me.Atleast you are excelling in a certain field, what's needed is to slowly n slowly learn two or three relevant skills like cooking foods you enjoy ,e.t.c
To counter some of these depressing stories, two of my roommates from college were homeschooled through high school. Both are on very successful paths in life and pretty well aware of the world around them. One’s in accounting and the other is heading off to grad school for molecular biology this year. All three of us are devout conservative Christians (in doctrine, not politics). I’m really proud of them.
Homeschooling can be the right choice for some people. They aren't all "weird". Besides that, many of the people in these posts seem VERY pop culture oriented. Since homeschoolers don't get that pressure to have to do/have/know x and y, some might choose that these things don't interest them without them being banned. To these super pop culture orientated people that might be "weird". But you aren't automatically sheltered or whatnot just because you don't do, go along with or like everything the mainstream does or likes. You are be aware of the world but live life your own way. I personally do not bother to keep up with celebrities, I don't know many of the "new ones", they are just irrelevant to me and the worship of them is odd to me. That doesn't make me sheltered, it just means that I have a different opinion than the mainstream.
I could have written that one with the "Flanders" family. As a matter of fact I thought I had and somehow forgotten all about it because of how similar it sounded to a super sheltered friend I had as a kid. I didn't recognize it at the time that she was sheltered, that came later, and it honestly makes me angry that her parents kept so much from her. She was a nice person, even if a bit weird, but she got pregnant almost right away after high school in no small part because her parents probably kept any kind of sex education away from her. Maybe she would have made lots of different decisions had she understood basic biology. I consider over-sheltering a kind of child abuse now.
@@pennyforyourthots I've never been big into politics but I've been aware of who the current president is since I was roughly about 9 or 10 I think. (Was Reagan at that time if you want to do the math.) I don't obsess over politics but do vote in every major election.
Well it depends on the country. In Australia the PM changes so often (like once every two years due to leadership changes with a party) that it can be a bit challenging to keep up. Belgium is even worse as they frequently take years to form a coalition government so the country mostly runs on bureaucratic autopilot.
Cannot understand why you would want to shelter your child to the point of treating them as if they were still children beyond adulthood. When my mother was pregnant with her first child as a teen, she mentioned that when her water broke, she got hold of her neighbor in a panic to help her as she could not understand why she was "peeing and couldn't stop"...she had no idea what labor was or anything about childbirth. She also told a story about how she got in trouble at school because she had a jar of Vaseline with her to rub on her skin because she had eczema. She got a whipping when she got home...she had no idea what she did wrong.. When she was an adult, she was with a group of women when one of them mentioned that you should always have Vaseline in the bedroom if you were married. She asked this lady why would you need Vaseline in the bedroom? She said the lady laughed at her thinking she was pulling her leg...she then explained to her that Vaseline could be used as a lubricant for sexual intercourse...it was only then that she understood why she got in so much trouble for having that Vaseline with her at school. 🙄
Isn't this part of the Amish lifestyle? That the (legal adult) children are given a year (I think) to go into the secular world and do secular things before 'returning to the fold' for literally the rest of their lives?
@@xaenon They have the CHOICE to return if they want it is not forced. Which is very respectable. They have a world view but they allow them to taste the outside world and if they prefer it that is up to them to decide. Many power dynamics never allow for this, which is what the horrible part is
I had a friend in college who went home a couple times a week to get her hair washed (by her grandmother). This is the same girl who was so sheltered that she locked herself in the bathroom and cried on her wedding night. This was in the 1970s. She lived in a college dorm (when she wasn't running home to grandmom) with a bunch of promiscuous young women, but none of it ever rubbed off on her.
Me and my sister were very young at the time (5-8) and it was October. We were making the alphabet with words related to Halloween. We got to H and decided on "horror." Our mom said no because it "sounded like a bad word." We didn't even know what the bad word she was talking about was at the time and it was obviously not what we meant to say. We had to decide on "Haunted." Btw, the word she was probably referring to starts with a W
@@peepo6034 nah, I just found this one thing pretty bad... Oh, also, not so much of being sheltered, but just weirdly funny, since we watched both the Adam's family and Hocus Pocus as children, we needed to be told false thigs for "sex" and "virgin." Even though we learned sec was "when people pray for a baby, our parents decided to say a virgin was someone who "had never fallen in love." While this made no sense for the movie Hocus Pocus, I believe it until some girls in 6th grade laughed at me after asking what i thought it was.
@@pageturner2958 I grew up Catholic and am currently Lutheran, but the amount of kids with Christian parents who try to hide what the word virgin means baffle me as it's right there in the Bible and the Bible makes it quite clear what being a virgin entails. Same with the word womb and anything dealing with pregnancy.
My mom was one of those women... She has changed, but shes mad i like to stay home and not go out to meet people... All i can tell her is "blame my parents, they never lwt me put of the house while a kid"
As an adult you can choose to meet new people and socialize.I grew up in an area with few agemates,but I learnt to socialize. First start by visiting places you would like to go to,befriend the person selling groceries and basic stuff , befriend others,engage many people.
10:17 I am fairly sure those are not reflexes you can unlearn like that, however you can lose them with certain neurological issues/brain cancer. Sounds like the girl was sick somehow, which is why the parents padded everything but she got better before HS
@@seabreeze4559 "It's better to be quiet and let people think you are an idiot than to speak and prove them right" Probably a quote you should consider before posting such horseshit
There is a kid who goes to my brothers school who wears basically the same clothes and Among Us face mask everyday. He isn’t allowed to watch anything that’s not educational. Then there is someone who was my friend but moved away who was not allowed to watch RUclips at all. He had no idea who Mr. Beast or Pewdiepie or any of those guys were. This was in about 2019
Why is it so important to know trash like Pewdiepie though? I really do understand why people wouldn't want their kids watching this crap. Many people don't, but give in because they don't want the kid to feel left out in school.
All things considered having no social media isn’t a bad thing when you are younger I didn’t have it for the majority of the time I had a phone and I’m pretty happy that I didn’t have it But that’s just me
And it's shitty because you want to go back to when you didn't have it because the internet is full of shitty people, but by that point you've usually been on long enough that it's really the only passtime you "enjoy" so you half-heartedly stay and constantly hate yourself for it
Honestly, I couldn't care less for most of social media like Twitter, instagram or Facebook, it's a mostly toxic ambient anyways; but I literally can't live without my whatsapp and discord anymore, most of the time my parents and my grandma are either busy, tired, or don't know what I'm talking about, so literally almost every meaningful human interaction I have nowadays is either talking with my school friends and my cousin on whatsapp or talking with my online friends on discord; I can't go back to talking with my plushies and playing tic tac toe, hide and seek and board games with them because I literally had no one else to talk for 99% of my time ;-; I may be introvert but even I need my quota of socializing before I start to feel extremely lonely
@@gabrielabatista6016 I feel like I agree with that way to much I may be an introvert but hearing from someone who cares about you or just knows who you are can make your day so much better
@@Night-Fire-nj1rd definitely; sometimes I just want a little bit of attention and having someone to talk about the things I like makes my day so much better; also, english isn't my first language so talking with my online friends helps improve my spoken english a lot =)
I love how my grandparents raised me. They didn’t let me do anything dangerous but they let me go into stores alone to pick up our orders, and they made me do things I was uncomfortable with so I felt more comfortable and wasn’t sheltered.
My kids had friends with what they called ABCD moms which are people who treat their kids like toddlers no matter how old they are. I had to teach two of them to do their laundry and how to cook simple things like ramen noodles, pasta, Mac and cheese, and how to make a salad. Very sad. One of them freaked out in the first semester and dropped out because she was so afraid. She didn’t live on her own w/o family until she was 25, not for any reason other than fear of having to do things for herself.
20:10 most fish don't have sex, the female fish would release her eggs and the male would release sperm and the cloud of sperm would fertilize the eggs, the ones that do are like whales or sharks, if you have ever see either one, you would just think they just bumped in to each other, i have my doubts about this story.
Well I remember reading a story that the parents locked there child in a closet for 8 years kid could not talk and was basically a animal probaly still in home care today
I was kinda sheltered growing up. Didn't my first phone until I was 12, could only spend 30 minutes on the internet a day(which was split between playing minecraft and watching minecraft videos), and my natural shyness and social anxitey kept me from making too many friends. I was banned from youtube for like 3-4 years once, but I got around it by watching videos at my few friends houses, and stealing laptops to watch videos until the battery ran out. I have only had McDonalds less than 10 times in my life, and I didn't listen to most modern/popular music until I finally tried out Spotify in 2017-2018. I didn't know what a meme was until I made my instagram account in 2017. Now, I'm a bit more out there, and my parents aren't very strict, but social anxitey keeps me from being as independent as other teenagers. I'll get there one day
I once knew a girl in high school who came from a very fundamentalist Christian setting that was so severe it kinda creeped me out sometimes. She was part of my group of school friends at the time but she was mostly quiet and pretty much completely clueless about any pop culture we brought up, with the odd exception of Marvel movies, as her parents let her watch those. One time, my group of friends was having a conversation about previous or current romantic experiences, when she piped up that she didn't know the difference between making out and having sex. At the time I couldn't figure out if it was because she thought that kissing meant having sex or that "making out" was just slang for sex, but with her severely sheltered background it honestly could have gone either way. She also once explained that she wouldn't allow herself to have any romantic experiences or boyfriends because she "promised herself to God" that she would wait until she found the person "that she knew she would marry." She wouldn't even let herself have crushes - she would either try to squash the feeling into nothingness or ignore it entirely, which, needless to say, is extremely unhealthy for a teenager. I eventually distanced myself from her because of her very obnoxious homophobic/transphobic views that got in the way of our friendship one too many times, despite my efforts to try to change her mind on that topic.
I have a co-worker like this he's over 40 and still first responses Mommy and Daddy and says he can't have a piece of the free cake in the break room because they won't allow it
If i recall correctly, even after her helicopter and abusive mother died, Ed Gein felt that she was still talking to him in his consciousness, ordering him to do "chores"
My little brother just learned what sex was about 4 months ago. He’s almost 20. He lives with his grandparents (not related to me) and they thought if they didn’t tell him he wouldn’t do it. Used good old religion to keep him terrified of sex. He didn’t know babies could be conceived outside of marriage and believed they were conceived from hugging.
When you are homeschooled there is testing and stuff like that from the government of people do it right ... but it’s way too easy for parents to fake it I guess because I knew a girl that grow up not doing any school stuff and at age 26 she knew as much as a 5th grader would with school stuff but I could tell she was very intelligent and mature for her age ... she grew up with like 8 siblings and they all just hung out and played and she said her mom faked all the paperwork for school stuff so they didn’t have to go to school... the way she talked about it made me think that her story was one of those that were in a documentary somewhere because we also talked about similar bad stuff that happened in our childhoods ... but being home schooled I can imagine it was worse because her parents didn’t have to worry about them telling teachers or friends ... she was super cool and definitely not the type of personality I would think that would come out of that type of growing up
My parents did this. I was “homeschooled” for years. After about sixth grade they just quit teaching me. They enrolled me in public high school after about two years of just sitting around home
The older i get the more i realize on how fucked up my life is- I wasn’t even allowed to take a bath alone until i was in 4th grade, wasn’t allowed to go to the park/swim alone (till now i can’t) , ride a bike alone, go to the convenience store alone till i was in 4th-5th grade, not allowed to go out alone, go to my friends house alone even though shes in the building next to mine, im not taught basic life skills like cooking and washing dishes (ik how but wont let me), cant date till im 22, cant drink anything else but wine when im older, can’t go to the mall with my friends, not allowed to go to the mall near my school (which is REALLY CLOSE), not allowed to have male friends, not allowed in parties, not allowed to go to my friends house unless they knew them or their parents, etc, AND I still sleep in the same bed as my mom. Its so ridiculous especially since my older brother was allowed to do anything he wanted even at a young age. Whats their reasoning? Cause im a girl and im gonna get r**ped. I was told that since i was 8, literally 8 years old. My mom would show me news about women getting r**ped and tell me “thats why your not allowed to do blablablabla, cause your gonna end up r***ed and dead”. She also gets mad at me when I cry, she goes and slaps me and throw the slippers at me so I can “stop” crying, like thank you that will very much make me stop crying. Like wtf. Ya know whats funny? My mom expects me to get married in the future with so much restrictions with men- I love my mom (aside from those stupid things) don’t get me wrong, but it’s just fucked up. Not to mention my dad is fucked up with money and relationships even more than my mom.
Thank you.1 So many people would assume there all majors and ungrateful. Even the 1st person or group of people to recognise that this is a problem if you don't want to use the word to be used The parents are still responsible
These children weren't sheltered. They were abused. They were denied critical life skills and information so that they can be controlled. This is some scary shit man...
I'm curious if I was sheltered. My parents never really let me go to friends houses, even if I was invited. They blamed it on the fact that I never cared about what I wore to school. That's the least of what's happened to me but I'm just curious. I still fucking resent most of my family
I had a student (think 10-12) who had never been exposed to a story of a character going to another world (like "Alice in Wonderland"). When I showed him a bit of "Spirited Away" for an art lesson his mom freaked out. I pity the kid in future assignments that require basic pop culture knowledge. Had to cancel the whole thing for his class and the 5 other classes.
I almost feel sorry for these guys. And I'm definitely the kind of guy to expose a sheltered kid to everything their parents won't let them experience, just to piss them off.
Well that make you no better, you are pushing a world view just out of spite. If this were purely for the sake of the person, that is one thing. Purposefully doing things out of spite, well thats just the reverse of the issue. And at that point you can easily lead down a path of its own destruction, because YOUR personal feelings wanted that
"She had no coordination problems, she just sucked at falling down." I beg to differ. I bet I also suck at falling (not as bad as her, though), once my body's fully committed to it, but you know what I am really good at? Catching myself on things so that I don't get to that point. It would be one thing if she never braced herself for a fall. But if she can't even grab something to stop a fall, then I say she DID have coordination issues. And instead of padding everything maybe her parents should have taught her to tuck her chin and roll, SOMETHING. You don't have to be a trained stuntman to throw out an arm, but if you're taking falls face first maybe you do need some stunt training.
I'm about to *really* humiliate myself here: I didn't hear (or hear of) the f-word myself until I was about 13. I mean *did not know it existed.* I never even heard my mother use it until I was in my thirties. (To put this in context, I've been disabled my entire life and spent my childhood close to home. No friends, and few outside activities.) I didn't know it was possible for a person to be gay until I was sixteen and saw Billy Crystal's character on the TV show "Soap." (I'm old, what can I say?) I assumed no one would even think of making love to someone of the same sex, on the grounds that it was simply too absurd. My folks weren't hyper-religious or insanely overprotective. I was just an isolated kid with geeky interests and an inability to ride a bicycle (or even a bus, at the time--not accessible), so I stayed home and watched cartoons.
I was on my way to boot camp and this dude, was there too and his parents came with him to the airport. They bought him food and stuff. They convinced the TA people to let them walk him to the terminal because he was freaking out. This grown person who was older than me was headed to boot camp with me. And he wa as a man baby. First two weeks into boot camp this guy just breaks down and wont stop crying. He refused to bathe and brush his teeth. His parents did everything for him. He didnt know how to function with out them
At 21, I recently used a crosswalk for the first time and almost broke down. Before that, I had to work myself up to just walking out of the door, just being outside is terrifying. But I'm making steps, I can finally go across the street and get myself some McDonald's. Nothing for most people, life changing for me.
So I have some friends. They are three girls, very nice people but very sheltered and homeschooled, they believed in Santa, not until they were, 8, 9 or 10. The oldest one believed in him until she was 14
Reminds me of my old landlady's son, who was the Chinese equivelent of the Japanese hikkomori. Asleep most of the time, clueless about the nation he was in, astonishing lack of any life skills and complete lack of interest to learn or experience anything new. I dread to think about how he'll cope when his parents die.
I live in a shared flat with people from my workplace. most of our people like myself are from another country. every time we get a new person living here we have to check to make sure they know the basics to survive alone. e.g. use a washing machine, iron their clothes, make food. setup a computer etc.. In my time here i've "trained" like 8 fully grown adults these things... its amazing how many people are like "sure i dont know how to survive without my parents. but lets move to another country anyway"...
Please help me. I haven't been allowed to leave my house for over 10 years, I'm 21 now, stuck, and beyond miserable. I have no friends or family, just addict abusers. My (at the time) 34 year old mom and 18 year old dad PLANNED me into the world and did the bare minimum of feeding me. Obviously my 18 year old dad went out for milk and cigarettes. I've only been allowed to leave for school and the occasional visit to Wal-Mart or the post office. I live in the South, in poverty, and in the middle of absolutely nowhere, I don't know how to get help. I tried all through school and was ignored. I told them how home life was. If someone had taught me to drive I'd be out of here by now, I'd have left after I graduated. It took me 4 years to get an ID because a combination of the lack of help from my birth giver and the people at the DMV being difficult pos, even after I explained my situation and how difficult it is for me to get there. My ID is the only thing that I have that makes me an "adult". Physically I'm 21, mentally I'm 12 and have been 12 for a long time. I don't know how to do anything, all I know how to do is cry, feel overwhelmed and have breakdowns. I suffer from BPD amongst a list of other mental and physical health issues (can probably thank mom for that), we are basically running on emotions, because of that I'm in pure neverending agony 24/7 over how miserable and meaningless my life is, the unfair way I have been treated and how I'm hindered in my life because I had abusive addicts for caregivers. Mom blames me for her faults, takes it out on me. I'm tired of the screaming, the degrading, belittling. I'd scream out for help at school every chance I got and was ignored. They never cared or took me seriously, just wanted me out of their office. Nobody cared that an actual at 11 year old I was already making suicide at attempts and being very vocal about how suicidal I was. Am. Mom started offering me some of her snortable heroine. This is what the impoverished south does for fun. Please help me.
It really doesn't matter to me because I have no desire to drive a car, but. I have no idea how to do 99% of car things. I'd ask my dad how to do it, and he would always say he'd tell me when I was older, but never did. I'd ask my mom, who knows more about cars than my dad, and she'd say it's the father's job to teach his child car stuff. I'm in my twenties and clueless, but I have a phobia of driving because of nightmares I've had since I was 4, so I really don't see how it matters in my case. My older sister works on cars a lot and would be able to teach me anything in a concise way if I asked, so if I ever do need to learn I don't have to worry. I don't mind it but a lot of people probably think it's weird or whatever. 🤷♀️
About eight and a half minutes, the girl could have used some martial arts classes. They will teach you how to fall. How to break a fall, how to lessen a fall. I can vouch for, years later, the instincts are still there and I have saved myself from some pretty ugly ones from that.
My great-grandma was the heiress of a wealthy Serbian family in the 1920s. She married my great-grandpa and they fled to the US because of "the communists." The two of them wanted to start a family, but my great-grandma didn't know where babies came from. She had to knock on their neighbor's door and ask the lady inside to explain how babies were made.
This made me think of my mom. There were 7 of us. By the time I came along, if one of us fell of a bike, tripped over, etc. she’d say “Huh. That was cool, high five”, because she had little patience for crying kids. We’d get over ourselves real fast.
Hearing this kinda scares me because I was very sheltered, and homeschooled for almost seven years. I could've ended like that. Lucky me, I didn't. I came out to my mother in a rage, and she kinda realized that I wasn't the person she had raised me to be. Kinda gave up on me and let me do whatever I wanted. I gave up on her. I'm my own person and I know all a young adult should know. I wonder if she regrets robbing me of a normal childhood
This makes me feel better about being sheltered because it wasn't this bad. Then again looking on stuff part of it was mental disabilities, having no friends that could help me be aware of shit & just my parents not saying shit.(My dad laughed when he found out I never saw any of the Final Destination movies the day we bing watched them a few months ago, I didn't have the ability to find them online & shit so the only reason I'd have known was if he had shown the movies to me)
These make me happy for my parents and schooling. My parents were pretty strict about me going out and stuff when i was a teen, but they made sure to talk to me about puberty, sex, relationships, responsibility, drinking and smoking, peer pressure etc. I can’t imagine just never being told those things. you don’t just reach a certain age and know them without someone else telling you. crazy
I was a sheltered kid and all I was allowed to do was home chores. I was restricted so much that in my teens the only past times I was allowed were listening to radio, journaling and reading bible. Yes, I went into psychosis.
This isn't terrible, especially at this age, but I have never been able to tell this story. In 7th grade we were learning about body systems and this particular day we were learning about the reproductive system. My mom never gave me "the talk" at that point and my friend told me a joke and I was very confused. She said something like, peg A has glue on it. It goes into hole B and now there is glue in hole B. I was so confused then next day in the Goodwill parking lot, my mom told me where babies come from. Now I get that joke.
I mentioned to an ex coworker that I cleaned the office next door to the homeless shelter on the weekends to make extra money. She said she doesnt understand why homeless shelters exist and why dont they just go home
It's a US movie rating. If a movie is rated R, you can't see it in a movie theater without an adult with you if you're under age 17. T and M are US video game ratings. T stands for teen and is aimed at kids 13 and older. M stands for mature, and most game stores won't sell an M-rated game to a kid under 17 without a parent present.
@@aaronodonoghue1791 Not necessarily. You can be sheltered but also be taught basic life skills unlike most of the people featured here but it just seems like horrible parenting in this video because they both sheltered them and never taught them what to do in the real world.
Do these sociopaths actually think they're helping their kids by raising them this way?!
It's not even the sheltering, it's the responsibility to teach life skills that the parents should have done. Being sheltered has nothing to do with not knowing that metal doesn't go in a microwave
There’s a show called World’s Worst Mom that gets into the behind the scenes of this behavior. Many of he parents have unresolved traumas that cause them to overreact in an almost OCD like manner.
@@lovely1641 bro I’m sure it literally does. Anyone raised in a conventional family would likely have that skill. Parents who keep their kids sheltered are so much more likely to stop their kids from doing their own chores.
Unfortunately yes.
coming from a place that was horrible and being concerned about their children's well-being to the point where they don't even trust their children to take care of themselves,
blind familial love that's pathologically caring without the slightest foresight about what happens when they die and their child has to fend for themselves.
My parents came from Cuba and communism pretty much destroyed the country so putting your child in a bubble from the outside world even if it's illogical and doesn't facilitate character growth or anything like that or how to deal with problems head on is not important to them they will totally act like that character from Dragon Ball z chichi
You know the one overbearing mother
It's a combination of things my parents very religious except for my dad who stopped being religious.
My mother didn't really care so much as do as little as possible to facilitate my development as in we didn't go out anywhere we only went to church so I wasn't exposed to much and we only had Public Access television which was like 10 channels and the other 40 were just static and barely Audible conversations and commercials
my knowledge of the outside world was AM radio since that usually got through reliably enough.
Sheltering people to this degree should be considered plainly as what it is, abuse.
it is
Sheltering is such a backwards concept... "I am going to prepare my child for the world by hiding them from the world and teaching them nothing about the world"
@@benja303 I understand wanting to protect your kid from harm. But there's a fine line between just making sure they don't get themselves killed because they're doing something that is actually harmful and protecting them from everything altogether.
I have a niece and am the godfather of my nephew. I see them run in the house and I keep worrying that they'll bump their heads hard on the dinner table. I warn them to be careful but I know they'll hurt themselves and it's this kind of experience they need to learn, even if it's going to be unpleasant for them as well as for me because then I have to deal with a screaming crying child.
If anything, I reckon one of the reasons why parents are so over protective is to avoid having to deal with a screaming child in the first place, so they protect them and enable them just not to deal with boo boos and tantrums. They aren't doing their job as parents, plain and simple.
social isolation and isolation is abuse
Sad but true
I feel so bad for these kids the parents legit failed them
Crappy parents YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CHILD
Same.
@Paulo Eusebio idk y they rely on someone to pullout on time like that so dumb
My aunt couldn't have kids, so she adopted 3 girls and proceeded to do everything in her power to "protect their innocence". They were never allowed to wear anything "revealing", were forced to go to church services and Bible studies multiple times a day, and we're never allowed to go to school functions, dances, field trips, or travel for fear they would "run into boys and sin". They had all of these restrictions on them until they turned 18 and left the house. The first one fell madly in love with the first loser she met out in the real world, had 2 kids with him before learning a very hard lesson about unhealthy relationships. The second one went crazy as soon as she left the house, was constantly clubbing, getting involved in drugs and gangsters, popped out about 6 kids before returning to live in her mother's garage and is still just getting by. The third one was so afraid of going out into the real world that she lived with her parents well into her 30s before her father told her she needed to go live her life.
That’s so sad. I guess it’s true that kids will won’t to rebel more when they’re literally not allowed to do ANYTHING.
I don't think the first and second halves are related
These kinds of parents are just setting their kids up for failure and the people they fear their children will become
pathological altruism or just abuse
Would they consider the 3rd one to be a mild success?
I feel bad for this kids like let them touch some grass
But not without their parents.
@@yellowmello1223 of course who else will hug them if it bites.
I'm "self sheltered". I avoided stuff so i wouldn't get in trouble and now i'm an introvert. My mom always encouraged me to go out and whatnot. I usually don't. It took me forever to understand basic things that weren't taught.
I'm almost the same... my mom showed me about the "worldly" things from a young age (4-7 years old), that by the time I was 8 I was too worried about murders, sex trafficking, people who abuse their friends/family, and I became so frightened that anyone around me would "snap" and become a murderer (I read so many criminal cases from my aunt who is an attorney and watched so much CSI as a little girl and I think that made me so scared of people). So I self-isolated, and later my mom wanted me to go out with kids my age as a teen, but by that time kids were just into partying, drugs and sex, and I avoided them like the plague.
Yeah was raised with highly, extroverted embarrassing parents and family members with very little filters. The other extreme of the families in the video. And I became self sheltering much to their disdain.
Also self sheltering. I did not ever talk to another student in school, unless it was strictly work related. I still do not have a single friend.
The only place where I talk is on forums where I don't know anyone else and I am certain my family will never find me.
The only exception was that I was allowed to ride my bike on public roads, as long as there was never a destination.
Pretty much the same
@@aricarlyomg same smh
13:29 This honestly sounds like the parents were just taking advantage of their children's free labor
I met a girl in similar circumstances. Her parents 100% were just using her for slave labor. She was borderline illiterate, no drivers license, basically couldn't function independently. Her parents had set her up to be incapable of leaving them so that they could keep exploiting her.
domestic slavery, it's illegal?
@@mindassassin report it, it's literally slavery
@@seabreeze4559 It was years ago.
To make up for the nephews' deficit, yeah?
This started out funny, but got more and more depressing with each story. The stories themselves didn’t get any worse, but rather the cumulative effect of realizing how unprepared these poor people would be to survive on their own got to be too much to ignore. Let your kids learn to be people, for fucks sake!
I have a friend who just about needs me or her mom to do everything for her. That includes giving a waitress your order, asking a store employee for help, me asking her mom if SHE can go do something. She doesn't do anything on her own! She's horrible with money, manners, has no common sense. She's a giant toddler! But god forbid, you tell her ANY of this to try to help her like hoooo boy she LOSES HER SHIT-
LMAO I did that once to my friend on accident and she said "Bro im not your mother" and I died laughing becuase I was so embarrassed I did that
Why are you still friends with her?
@@jadas8686 because she's not a bad person. She was suuuuper sheltered. Not by her mom, but her grandparents. She lived with them and they did everything for her and didn't teach her anything. I am her only friend. Literally. Her *only* friend. If I just cut her out of my life, I'll feel awful.
It sounds like she's very anxious about the world. I hope she finds a way to manage. Take care of yourself. You're very kind.
She'll never be anything other than a burden to you and those around her. Get rid of her ASAP.
At what point does sheltering cross the line into abuse?
It's debatable but I think some of these stories arguably cross that line. To some degree parents have the right to raise their children how they want, but I feel withholding basic knowledge and skills needed to cope with the modern world comes close to negligence if not outright mental abuse.
I would say as soon as it interferes with them having a normal life. Like if a mother wants them to never have dairy because "we don't do that in this house," that would be considered sheltering but is also bad enough to be considered a form of abuse (due to risk of malnutrition caused by an entire food group missing from child's diet).
@@novatheenby8779 I'll agree with you, and I might add the point where they cause their children to be incapable to functionally work as an adult because they simply have no idea of how things work or how to do even the most basic things such as boiling water or choosing your clothes
I'd say all of the time. Sheltering does nothing but make it harder for people to adapt to the real world and in my mind actively making your child's life worse is abusive. And just to clarify sheltering and basic protectiveness are not the same thing. It's protective to keep knives away from your 5 year old to prevent them from being a danger to themselves and others but it's sheltering to cut your 15 year olds food for them because you don't want them using any kind of knife.
domestic slavery
I will forever wonder what parents think they’re accomplishing by sheltering their kids from the world. Like do genuinely believe you can keep them safe from every danger in the world for their entire life?
I guess, they are afraid of all the bad things that can happen to a child. When my daughter went to elementary school, I was afraid, too, and it was only 800m away. Of course I let her walk alone, but I was always very relieved when she came back in the afternoon!
@@solidstate9451 this I understand and you’re not being overly protective of her in this scenario, what I don’t understand is the parent who takes their child’s door away and monitors their phone activity and won’t let them stay over at friends’ houses
@@Cantbebotheredbyyouanymore Yet, it was a hard time! I always thought of Natascha Kampusch... My daughter doesn't have a mobile phone.
When they said that he couldnt watch spongebob, i got my pitchfork ready
When I was like 9 I was watching spongebob and the panty snatcher episode came on and my mom was in the room. She banned me from watching it after that and it was probably two years after until I was allowed to watch it again. That’s understandable tho. Definitely a more mature episode than what it’s rated for
bruh to be honest tho spongebob can be really fkn weird sometimes
It makes me wonder if that guy was in a cult family or something.
I was never allowed to watch it either. My mom just found it annoying to listen to, lol
It’s sadly common. My neighbor couldn’t watch spongebob till he was in high school.
Being sheltered sucks. It really impacted my social skills. I am even scared to go to a goddam restaurant by myself🙄
man i feel you. i feel like growing up sheltered is what gave me two very conflicting traits: im both socially anxious due to my poor social skills and yet still somehow really extroverted and bold. i get scared of trying anything or going anywhere new but in my comfort zone ive learned to be what id say is normal. i think the best thing you can do is just keep making yourself uncomfortable until everywhere becomes your comfort zone if that makes sense. get out of the shelter so to speak. but its easier said than done, going to a restaurant alone sounds like hell to me still lol
@@amieaustin9579 this is exactly how I feel. I will try to push my comfort zone a bit more until I get better. Thanks hey💖
I feel like I had seen too much stuff growing up try as they may my parents tried to shelter me, but the real world doesn’t care what happens to anyone. Young, old, man, woman, rich, and poor. What I learned last year was something called Attachment Theory.
There is a channel called Craig Kenneth. With the video playlist called: Understanding Attachment Styles, Traumas, and Injuries. It was eye opening to see and learn this because no one taught me these things even my parents and grandparents. Once learned, practiced, and applied I cured my Anxiety and completely changed my life for the better. Best to you in life as well. Take care.
@@IamDustinuNoob hey. Thank you so much. All the best to you too💖💖💖
I wasn't sheltered but my social skills are shit because bullying in school broke me down. I still look like a teen and am literally afraid that if I go somewhere without another person, random teens might bully me. Totally unreasonable, I know.
That baby scheduling thing sounds like either the Ferber method or MOTH method. Both are basically abuse.
When I was a swim coach, I had this sophomore girl who's parents had never taught her about menopause and scared her into thinking tampons took away her virginity. The poor thing thought she'd be a 90 year old woman still getting her period and pregnant.
My former best friend had to be taught how to do laundry, dishes, make simple meals, make her bed, etc before she left for college. Until she moved out, she had never been able to watch the news, listen to any music aside from Disney/musicals/opera, watch anything rated over PG, date, try any alcohol, and more. Actually, she didn't date until she was almost 30 and married her first bf.
I was also very sheltered. I wasn't allowed to play video games, stay overnight anywhere, stay home alone, go out with friends without solid plans to be doing productive activities as just "hanging out" wasn't allowed, I had to have a sport after school, I couldn't have a house key, I had to be ready to have my phone or car taken away/searched at any time for any reason, I couldn't sleep past 9am, couldn't have a shower curtain, no locks on any doors/wasn't allowed to even have some doors, could never keep passwords to myself, I could never get really much privacy, and a lot more. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, I've had to move back in with my parents. I'm 34 and I have moved out many times, did the college thing, and have a job to pay my bills, and I'm now back to basically having to obey 95% of the old rules 🙃 yay! But I put up with it because I can't go back to living in my tiny car; so I'm grateful for that lol.
"found out what sex is"
This is so.....horrifying.
she didn't consent
I just realized what this could mean, thanks @sea breeze
My mom didn’t let me wash my own hair until I was 9. I do have very thick and somewhat curly,frizzy hair. I wasn’t allowed to walk anywhere without my parents until I was very old,even though we lived in such a small town. Nevermind I’m thankful even though my parents babied me I did miss out on a little but I’m grateful I’m not like these kids. I was taught basic life skills at least
My daugther is 10 and still can't wash her hair properly. But she always walked alone to elementary school. It's only 800m away. And when she recently took the wrong bus to her new school , she walked 4 km home. We live in a city with a population of 200 000.
@@solidstate9451 Kids not being allowed outside without an adult breathing down their neck sadly seems to be the norm in America. To the point where they call the cops when they see an "unsupervised" child of 10. Personally, I find that to be a much bigger issue than not having TV, banning certain shows, not having a cell phone. I got a lot out of being outside without an adult as a child, way more than you'd get from watching Spongebob, which seems to be the biggest tragedy to some commenters, like really.
@@mchobbit2951 Well, my children haven't watched TV for weeks now. They still seem to be healthy... :D
@@solidstate9451 I don't even own a TV anymore and I didn't burst into flames.
It is disturbing how attached adults still are to things like TV. To the point where "not being allowed to watch TV" is the thing they cling onto in this video as "OMG, the worst". Someone isn't "sheltered" and "not prepared for life" just because they don't sit in front of a box entertaining them every day. In fact, if you don't sit in front of that box/always stare into a screen, you get to see more of actual real life. But of course you are already "the worst" if you don't get your kids Disney+ now. But then the same people will complain about pampered kids. Um, you pamper your own in a different way, folks.
@@mchobbit2951 My son cried because he was so bored. Shortly after he sew a truck awning for his playmobil truck... He wouldn't have come to this idea if he wasn't bored as hell and would have been allowed to watch TV.
Holy cow, it's like these parents are trying to raise a whole generation of Carrie Whites.
Pleasantly surprised by how positive/supportive most of the posts are, instead of "X was such a weirdo."
I've seen it a lot in people with mental disabilities. Maybe their parents didn't care to let them experience much of life out of fear of embarrassment or something, I don't fully know.
Some parents with those kids usually are just over-protective because people can be so mean to the mentally disabled.
@@PrincessKLS true. At the same time however, I feel being overprotective will make them worse off in the long run. Being left unable to mentally or emotionally mature in any way.
no low iq people literally won't be able to do most things, films are wrong
@@PrincessKLS no mentally disabled is also said to be 'learning disability' they CANNOT LEARN literally
@@seabreeze4559 have you personally met anyone with such a disability? Like, gotten to know them?
I was raised by super religious parents, they thought Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh were satanic, they also hated the Simpson's and Spongebob. This was annoying but the worst part was they forced me to attend a really sexist and homophobic church. I also attended some objectively terrible church schools that were literally falling apart and was home schooled some and it was very isolating and my parents weren't good teachers, thankfully I got into public school for high school though.
Anyway, in my teens, I just started rebelling behind my parents back and became atheist.
I know this isn't as bad as a lot of the stuff here but I still felt very excluded from other kids for awhile.
Caraca mermão.
You are me minus the church schools. Thank God i never went to church schools, i started public school at age 12 and ironically it was ghetto so i dove straight into the deep end
I wasn’t aloud to order my food at restaurant because “I might not like it” than my mom would order food she knew I didn’t like and argue that I did like it. Than yell at me and punish me for not eating it continued until I was 16. Also wouldn’t let me buy ice cream with my own money once when I was 15 because she was mad that my friend was rude to her during a field trip she was chaperoning.
Oh my goodness. Are you okay? This parental situation sounds awful.
I'm not sure if this counts, but in a college debate class, I actually used the term "Netflix and Chill" in my debate, and only realized it was a sexual euphemism when I was walking out the building.
Oh no 💀💀
Rip
Uh, never heard of that. People making innocent things so crude.
@GD Magic Gaming me as well, but change ice cream for any particular snack
wait what? it's supposed to be sexual?
You're not supposed to restrict how much a newborn eats. Only allowed to eat for 6 minutes at a time? That's straight up child abuse.
i grew up sheltered myself, and it sucks badly. my parents sheltered me when i was still a child. they did everything for me, and i was never allowed to go outside to hang out with friends because my parents told me that school was the most important thing. i spent my childhood studying, and when i didn't study, i'd play alone because i had no friend at all. now as an adult, i'm great at the academic stuff, but i'm awful at everything else. aaaaand now my parents are blaming me because i struggle to do simple things like do laundry, cook food for myself, or even socialize with people. i'm turning 20 in a few months, and i'm still in the process of learning how to be a proper functioning person. hope i'll be able to do it quickly.
Even the person who is winging at socializing,still believes that he is not.
Everyone is wearing a mask,believe me.Atleast you are excelling in a certain field, what's needed is to slowly n slowly learn two or three relevant skills like cooking foods you enjoy ,e.t.c
1:21 I Mean technically you CAN put them up for adoption as a foetus, but you've still gotta get them out...
To counter some of these depressing stories, two of my roommates from college were homeschooled through high school. Both are on very successful paths in life and pretty well aware of the world around them. One’s in accounting and the other is heading off to grad school for molecular biology this year. All three of us are devout conservative Christians (in doctrine, not politics). I’m really proud of them.
Homeschooling can be the right choice for some people. They aren't all "weird". Besides that, many of the people in these posts seem VERY pop culture oriented. Since homeschoolers don't get that pressure to have to do/have/know x and y, some might choose that these things don't interest them without them being banned. To these super pop culture orientated people that might be "weird". But you aren't automatically sheltered or whatnot just because you don't do, go along with or like everything the mainstream does or likes. You are be aware of the world but live life your own way. I personally do not bother to keep up with celebrities, I don't know many of the "new ones", they are just irrelevant to me and the worship of them is odd to me. That doesn't make me sheltered, it just means that I have a different opinion than the mainstream.
I could have written that one with the "Flanders" family. As a matter of fact I thought I had and somehow forgotten all about it because of how similar it sounded to a super sheltered friend I had as a kid. I didn't recognize it at the time that she was sheltered, that came later, and it honestly makes me angry that her parents kept so much from her. She was a nice person, even if a bit weird, but she got pregnant almost right away after high school in no small part because her parents probably kept any kind of sex education away from her. Maybe she would have made lots of different decisions had she understood basic biology. I consider over-sheltering a kind of child abuse now.
That girl who didn't know the prime minister ._.
I mean... That is like if I, an American, didn't know who the president was, right?
To be fair, some americans currently don't
@@pennyforyourthots touche
@@pennyforyourthots I've never been big into politics but I've been aware of who the current president is since I was roughly about 9 or 10 I think. (Was Reagan at that time if you want to do the math.) I don't obsess over politics but do vote in every major election.
Well it depends on the country. In Australia the PM changes so often (like once every two years due to leadership changes with a party) that it can be a bit challenging to keep up. Belgium is even worse as they frequently take years to form a coalition government so the country mostly runs on bureaucratic autopilot.
@@jonathanbowers8964 well, based on the post, it seemed like someone that even a sheltered person would know about
Cannot understand why you would want to shelter your child to the point of treating them as if they were still children beyond adulthood. When my mother was pregnant with her first child as a teen, she mentioned that when her water broke, she got hold of her neighbor in a panic to help her as she could not understand why she was "peeing and couldn't stop"...she had no idea what labor was or anything about childbirth. She also told a story about how she got in trouble at school because she had a jar of Vaseline with her to rub on her skin because she had eczema. She got a whipping when she got home...she had no idea what she did wrong.. When she was an adult, she was with a group of women when one of them mentioned that you should always have Vaseline in the bedroom if you were married. She asked this lady why would you need Vaseline in the bedroom? She said the lady laughed at her thinking she was pulling her leg...she then explained to her that Vaseline could be used as a lubricant for sexual intercourse...it was only then that she understood why she got in so much trouble for having that Vaseline with her at school. 🙄
These were more disturbing than entertaining. Usually kids sheltered after they taste the real world go buck wild...true story
I can confirm this is true I was extremely sheltered I went completely wild and unfortunately made alot of really bad decisions.
Isn't this part of the Amish lifestyle? That the (legal adult) children are given a year (I think) to go into the secular world and do secular things before 'returning to the fold' for literally the rest of their lives?
@@xaenon They have the CHOICE to return if they want it is not forced. Which is very respectable. They have a world view but they allow them to taste the outside world and if they prefer it that is up to them to decide. Many power dynamics never allow for this, which is what the horrible part is
I had a friend in college who went home a couple times a week to get her hair washed (by her grandmother). This is the same girl who was so sheltered that she locked herself in the bathroom and cried on her wedding night. This was in the 1970s. She lived in a college dorm (when she wasn't running home to grandmom) with a bunch of promiscuous young women, but none of it ever rubbed off on her.
The couple with the baby! Omg that poor kid. That makes me feel so angry for the baby.
I'm always amazed at how bad the US sex ed system is in parts of the country. As someone who lives in a civilised country I'm just like.... huh?
In all America continent is more like this.
@@heitorpedrodegodoi5646idk heard canada is doing it right
these poor kids end up falling apart once they are away from their parents. these kind of parents are so damaging
A lot of people have a vendetta against SpongeBob...it's hilarious
You're kinda blessed if you don't use social media.... it's a whole ass normal world out there without drama every few seconds :)
So what are you doing here?
Me and my sister were very young at the time (5-8) and it was October. We were making the alphabet with words related to Halloween. We got to H and decided on "horror." Our mom said no because it "sounded like a bad word." We didn't even know what the bad word she was talking about was at the time and it was obviously not what we meant to say. We had to decide on "Haunted."
Btw, the word she was probably referring to starts with a W
Hope you two arent as sheltered now
@@peepo6034 nah, I just found this one thing pretty bad...
Oh, also, not so much of being sheltered, but just weirdly funny, since we watched both the Adam's family and Hocus Pocus as children, we needed to be told false thigs for "sex" and "virgin." Even though we learned sec was "when people pray for a baby, our parents decided to say a virgin was someone who "had never fallen in love." While this made no sense for the movie Hocus Pocus, I believe it until some girls in 6th grade laughed at me after asking what i thought it was.
@@peepo6034 we really werenct sheltered as kidS.
@@pageturner2958 LMFAO
@@pageturner2958 I grew up Catholic and am currently Lutheran, but the amount of kids with Christian parents who try to hide what the word virgin means baffle me as it's right there in the Bible and the Bible makes it quite clear what being a virgin entails. Same with the word womb and anything dealing with pregnancy.
These people are ruining their children...
certain people shouldn't have children before learning how the world actually works
My mom was one of those women... She has changed, but shes mad i like to stay home and not go out to meet people... All i can tell her is "blame my parents, they never lwt me put of the house while a kid"
As an adult you can choose to meet new people and socialize.I grew up in an area with few agemates,but I learnt to socialize.
First start by visiting places you would like to go to,befriend the person selling groceries and basic stuff , befriend others,engage many people.
10:17 I am fairly sure those are not reflexes you can unlearn like that, however you can lose them with certain neurological issues/brain cancer.
Sounds like the girl was sick somehow, which is why the parents padded everything but she got better before HS
nah, stupid kid, low iq people are said to be 'dense' or 'dull' because they lack certain reflexes
@@seabreeze4559 "It's better to be quiet and let people think you are an idiot than to speak and prove them right"
Probably a quote you should consider before posting such horseshit
Thank you Dr. Reelian for your opinion on the case of the magical self healing neurological disorder
@@ShimSladyBrand ooooor ya know.... the parents took her to a doc and OP had no idea because he doesn't know every detail about her life...
There is a kid who goes to my brothers school who wears basically the same clothes and Among Us face mask everyday. He isn’t allowed to watch anything that’s not educational. Then there is someone who was my friend but moved away who was not allowed to watch RUclips at all. He had no idea who Mr. Beast or Pewdiepie or any of those guys were. This was in about 2019
Why is it so important to know trash like Pewdiepie though? I really do understand why people wouldn't want their kids watching this crap. Many people don't, but give in because they don't want the kid to feel left out in school.
All things considered having no social media isn’t a bad thing when you are younger I didn’t have it for the majority of the time I had a phone and I’m pretty happy that I didn’t have it
But that’s just me
And it's shitty because you want to go back to when you didn't have it because the internet is full of shitty people, but by that point you've usually been on long enough that it's really the only passtime you "enjoy" so you half-heartedly stay and constantly hate yourself for it
Honestly, I couldn't care less for most of social media like Twitter, instagram or Facebook, it's a mostly toxic ambient anyways; but I literally can't live without my whatsapp and discord anymore, most of the time my parents and my grandma are either busy, tired, or don't know what I'm talking about, so literally almost every meaningful human interaction I have nowadays is either talking with my school friends and my cousin on whatsapp or talking with my online friends on discord; I can't go back to talking with my plushies and playing tic tac toe, hide and seek and board games with them because I literally had no one else to talk for 99% of my time ;-; I may be introvert but even I need my quota of socializing before I start to feel extremely lonely
@@gabrielabatista6016 I feel like I agree with that way to much I may be an introvert but hearing from someone who cares about you or just knows who you are can make your day so much better
Same. Especially with how toxic it is now
@@Night-Fire-nj1rd definitely; sometimes I just want a little bit of attention and having someone to talk about the things I like makes my day so much better; also, english isn't my first language so talking with my online friends helps improve my spoken english a lot =)
I love how my grandparents raised me. They didn’t let me do anything dangerous but they let me go into stores alone to pick up our orders, and they made me do things I was uncomfortable with so I felt more comfortable and wasn’t sheltered.
The girl who doesn’t know how to fall was really weird.
My kids had friends with what they called ABCD moms which are people who treat their kids like toddlers no matter how old they are. I had to teach two of them to do their laundry and how to cook simple things like ramen noodles, pasta, Mac and cheese, and how to make a salad. Very sad. One of them freaked out in the first semester and dropped out because she was so afraid. She didn’t live on her own w/o family until she was 25, not for any reason other than fear of having to do things for herself.
20:10 most fish don't have sex, the female fish would release her eggs and the male would release sperm and the cloud of sperm would fertilize the eggs, the ones that do are like whales or sharks, if you have ever see either one, you would just think they just bumped in to each other, i have my doubts about this story.
Well I remember reading a story that the parents locked there child in a closet for 8 years kid could not talk and was basically a animal probaly still in home care today
I was kinda sheltered growing up. Didn't my first phone until I was 12, could only spend 30 minutes on the internet a day(which was split between playing minecraft and watching minecraft videos), and my natural shyness and social anxitey kept me from making too many friends. I was banned from youtube for like 3-4 years once, but I got around it by watching videos at my few friends houses, and stealing laptops to watch videos until the battery ran out. I have only had McDonalds less than 10 times in my life, and I didn't listen to most modern/popular music until I finally tried out Spotify in 2017-2018. I didn't know what a meme was until I made my instagram account in 2017. Now, I'm a bit more out there, and my parents aren't very strict, but social anxitey keeps me from being as independent as other teenagers. I'll get there one day
I once knew a girl in high school who came from a very fundamentalist Christian setting that was so severe it kinda creeped me out sometimes. She was part of my group of school friends at the time but she was mostly quiet and pretty much completely clueless about any pop culture we brought up, with the odd exception of Marvel movies, as her parents let her watch those. One time, my group of friends was having a conversation about previous or current romantic experiences, when she piped up that she didn't know the difference between making out and having sex. At the time I couldn't figure out if it was because she thought that kissing meant having sex or that "making out" was just slang for sex, but with her severely sheltered background it honestly could have gone either way. She also once explained that she wouldn't allow herself to have any romantic experiences or boyfriends because she "promised herself to God" that she would wait until she found the person "that she knew she would marry." She wouldn't even let herself have crushes - she would either try to squash the feeling into nothingness or ignore it entirely, which, needless to say, is extremely unhealthy for a teenager. I eventually distanced myself from her because of her very obnoxious homophobic/transphobic views that got in the way of our friendship one too many times, despite my efforts to try to change her mind on that topic.
You mention Marvel which I find so odd because I know so many conic book and scifi geeks from those circles.
I consider myself sheltered, but wow these folks are on another level
I have a co-worker like this he's over 40 and still first responses Mommy and Daddy and says he can't have a piece of the free cake in the break room because they won't allow it
these parents need to read about ed gein and why he was the way he was
Good idea
If i recall correctly, even after her helicopter and abusive mother died, Ed Gein felt that she was still talking to him in his consciousness, ordering him to do "chores"
My little brother just learned what sex was about 4 months ago. He’s almost 20. He lives with his grandparents (not related to me) and they thought if they didn’t tell him he wouldn’t do it. Used good old religion to keep him terrified of sex.
He didn’t know babies could be conceived outside of marriage and believed they were conceived from hugging.
Genuinely feel bad for these kids. You never choose who you're born to
When you are homeschooled there is testing and stuff like that from the government of people do it right ... but it’s way too easy for parents to fake it I guess because I knew a girl that grow up not doing any school stuff and at age 26 she knew as much as a 5th grader would with school stuff but I could tell she was very intelligent and mature for her age ... she grew up with like 8 siblings and they all just hung out and played and she said her mom faked all the paperwork for school stuff so they didn’t have to go to school... the way she talked about it made me think that her story was one of those that were in a documentary somewhere because we also talked about similar bad stuff that happened in our childhoods ... but being home schooled I can imagine it was worse because her parents didn’t have to worry about them telling teachers or friends ... she was super cool and definitely not the type of personality I would think that would come out of that type of growing up
My parents did this. I was “homeschooled” for years. After about sixth grade they just quit teaching me. They enrolled me in public high school after about two years of just sitting around home
Grew up homeschooled in Indiana- there really wasn't accountability. I think I turned out okay.
that's abuse, infantilisation
I was bullied to hell in school and still have mental issues from it. I honestly wish I had been homeschooled.
The older i get the more i realize on how fucked up my life is-
I wasn’t even allowed to take a bath alone until i was in 4th grade, wasn’t allowed to go to the park/swim alone (till now i can’t) , ride a bike alone, go to the convenience store alone till i was in 4th-5th grade, not allowed to go out alone, go to my friends house alone even though shes in the building next to mine, im not taught basic life skills like cooking and washing dishes (ik how but wont let me), cant date till im 22, cant drink anything else but wine when im older, can’t go to the mall with my friends, not allowed to go to the mall near my school (which is REALLY CLOSE), not allowed to have male friends, not allowed in parties, not allowed to go to my friends house unless they knew them or their parents, etc, AND I still sleep in the same bed as my mom. Its so ridiculous especially since my older brother was allowed to do anything he wanted even at a young age. Whats their reasoning? Cause im a girl and im gonna get r**ped. I was told that since i was 8, literally 8 years old. My mom would show me news about women getting r**ped and tell me “thats why your not allowed to do blablablabla, cause your gonna end up r***ed and dead”. She also gets mad at me when I cry, she goes and slaps me and throw the slippers at me so I can “stop” crying, like thank you that will very much make me stop crying. Like wtf. Ya know whats funny? My mom expects me to get married in the future with so much restrictions with men-
I love my mom (aside from those stupid things) don’t get me wrong, but it’s just fucked up. Not to mention my dad is fucked up with money and relationships even more than my mom.
In an ideal world, no one would have need to apologize for the behavior of their parents.
Thank you.1 So many people would assume there all majors and ungrateful. Even the 1st person or group of people to recognise that this is a problem if you don't want to use the word to be used The parents are still responsible
"I don't know when her parents decided they were insane."
These children weren't sheltered. They were abused. They were denied critical life skills and information so that they can be controlled. This is some scary shit man...
I'm curious if I was sheltered. My parents never really let me go to friends houses, even if I was invited. They blamed it on the fact that I never cared about what I wore to school. That's the least of what's happened to me but I'm just curious. I still fucking resent most of my family
Yes.
I mean it takes more than just that to be a sheltered and socially Awkard person
I had a student (think 10-12) who had never been exposed to a story of a character going to another world (like "Alice in Wonderland"). When I showed him a bit of "Spirited Away" for an art lesson his mom freaked out. I pity the kid in future assignments that require basic pop culture knowledge. Had to cancel the whole thing for his class and the 5 other classes.
The story at 8:24 is the most shocking/amazing things I've ever heard
Is that the only story in the video you listened to?
I almost feel sorry for these guys. And I'm definitely the kind of guy to expose a sheltered kid to everything their parents won't let them experience, just to piss them off.
Well that make you no better, you are pushing a world view just out of spite. If this were purely for the sake of the person, that is one thing. Purposefully doing things out of spite, well thats just the reverse of the issue. And at that point you can easily lead down a path of its own destruction, because YOUR personal feelings wanted that
"She had no coordination problems, she just sucked at falling down."
I beg to differ. I bet I also suck at falling (not as bad as her, though), once my body's fully committed to it, but you know what I am really good at? Catching myself on things so that I don't get to that point. It would be one thing if she never braced herself for a fall. But if she can't even grab something to stop a fall, then I say she DID have coordination issues. And instead of padding everything maybe her parents should have taught her to tuck her chin and roll, SOMETHING. You don't have to be a trained stuntman to throw out an arm, but if you're taking falls face first maybe you do need some stunt training.
It is depressing to see people getting sheltered from the real world so much they cannot even function correctly.
Wait a second....There isn't a Spain pavilion in Epcot. Just Mexico so that makes her even more daft
I'm about to *really* humiliate myself here:
I didn't hear (or hear of) the f-word myself until I was about 13. I mean *did not know it existed.* I never even heard my mother use it until I was in my thirties. (To put this in context, I've been disabled my entire life and spent my childhood close to home. No friends, and few outside activities.)
I didn't know it was possible for a person to be gay until I was sixteen and saw Billy Crystal's character on the TV show "Soap." (I'm old, what can I say?) I assumed no one would even think of making love to someone of the same sex, on the grounds that it was simply too absurd.
My folks weren't hyper-religious or insanely overprotective. I was just an isolated kid with geeky interests and an inability to ride a bicycle (or even a bus, at the time--not accessible), so I stayed home and watched cartoons.
18:40 There’s not even a Spain pavilion at Epcot?? Lmao
I was on my way to boot camp and this dude, was there too and his parents came with him to the airport. They bought him food and stuff. They convinced the TA people to let them walk him to the terminal because he was freaking out.
This grown person who was older than me was headed to boot camp with me. And he wa as a man baby.
First two weeks into boot camp this guy just breaks down and wont stop crying. He refused to bathe and brush his teeth. His parents did everything for him. He didnt know how to function with out them
Im assuming failure to adapt then and got booted I would guess.
At 21, I recently used a crosswalk for the first time and almost broke down.
Before that, I had to work myself up to just walking out of the door, just being outside is terrifying. But I'm making steps, I can finally go across the street and get myself some McDonald's. Nothing for most people, life changing for me.
So I have some friends. They are three girls, very nice people but very sheltered and homeschooled, they believed in Santa, not until they were, 8, 9 or 10. The oldest one believed in him until she was 14
Reminds me of my old landlady's son, who was the Chinese equivelent of the Japanese hikkomori.
Asleep most of the time, clueless about the nation he was in, astonishing lack of any life skills and complete lack of interest to learn or experience anything new.
I dread to think about how he'll cope when his parents die.
This is horrifying!!!!!
I live in a shared flat with people from my workplace. most of our people like myself are from another country. every time we get a new person living here we have to check to make sure they know the basics to survive alone. e.g. use a washing machine, iron their clothes, make food. setup a computer etc.. In my time here i've "trained" like 8 fully grown adults these things... its amazing how many people are like "sure i dont know how to survive without my parents. but lets move to another country anyway"...
Some people should just never be parents
Why I hate hearing
“Not your kids not your place” sentiments
Because there are parents like this screwing their kids over for adult life
Please help me.
I haven't been allowed to leave my house for over 10 years, I'm 21 now, stuck, and beyond miserable. I have no friends or family, just addict abusers. My (at the time) 34 year old mom and 18 year old dad PLANNED me into the world and did the bare minimum of feeding me. Obviously my 18 year old dad went out for milk and cigarettes.
I've only been allowed to leave for school and the occasional visit to Wal-Mart or the post office.
I live in the South, in poverty, and in the middle of absolutely nowhere, I don't know how to get help. I tried all through school and was ignored. I told them how home life was.
If someone had taught me to drive I'd be out of here by now, I'd have left after I graduated.
It took me 4 years to get an ID because a combination of the lack of help from my birth giver and the people at the DMV being difficult pos, even after I explained my situation and how difficult it is for me to get there.
My ID is the only thing that I have that makes me an "adult". Physically I'm 21, mentally I'm 12 and have been 12 for a long time.
I don't know how to do anything, all I know how to do is cry, feel overwhelmed and have breakdowns. I suffer from BPD amongst a list of other mental and physical health issues (can probably thank mom for that), we are basically running on emotions, because of that I'm in pure neverending agony 24/7 over how miserable and meaningless my life is, the unfair way I have been treated and how I'm hindered in my life because I had abusive addicts for caregivers. Mom blames me for her faults, takes it out on me. I'm tired of the screaming, the degrading, belittling.
I'd scream out for help at school every chance I got and was ignored. They never cared or took me seriously, just wanted me out of their office. Nobody cared that an actual at 11 year old I was already making suicide at attempts and being very vocal about how suicidal I was. Am.
Mom started offering me some of her snortable heroine. This is what the impoverished south does for fun.
Please help me.
It really doesn't matter to me because I have no desire to drive a car, but. I have no idea how to do 99% of car things. I'd ask my dad how to do it, and he would always say he'd tell me when I was older, but never did. I'd ask my mom, who knows more about cars than my dad, and she'd say it's the father's job to teach his child car stuff.
I'm in my twenties and clueless, but I have a phobia of driving because of nightmares I've had since I was 4, so I really don't see how it matters in my case.
My older sister works on cars a lot and would be able to teach me anything in a concise way if I asked, so if I ever do need to learn I don't have to worry.
I don't mind it but a lot of people probably think it's weird or whatever. 🤷♀️
About eight and a half minutes, the girl could have used some martial arts classes. They will teach you how to fall. How to break a fall, how to lessen a fall. I can vouch for, years later, the instincts are still there and I have saved myself from some pretty ugly ones from that.
As soon as I finished watching this video, I looked up, "fish having sex." 😂😂 I had to.
7:25 - Sounds like my ex-husband, though he was proud of not having those skills: "My time is too valuable to perform such menial tasks."
My great-grandma was the heiress of a wealthy Serbian family in the 1920s. She married my great-grandpa and they fled to the US because of "the communists." The two of them wanted to start a family, but my great-grandma didn't know where babies came from. She had to knock on their neighbor's door and ask the lady inside to explain how babies were made.
This made me think of my mom. There were 7 of us. By the time I came along, if one of us fell of a bike, tripped over, etc. she’d say “Huh. That was cool, high five”, because she had little patience for crying kids. We’d get over ourselves real fast.
i have a friend who is 16, but looks and acts like hes 10, cool guy, but the current theory is that he is extremely sheltered
15:11 “without pay”
Dude is a literal slave
Hearing this kinda scares me because I was very sheltered, and homeschooled for almost seven years. I could've ended like that. Lucky me, I didn't. I came out to my mother in a rage, and she kinda realized that I wasn't the person she had raised me to be. Kinda gave up on me and let me do whatever I wanted. I gave up on her. I'm my own person and I know all a young adult should know. I wonder if she regrets robbing me of a normal childhood
This makes me feel better about being sheltered because it wasn't this bad. Then again looking on stuff part of it was mental disabilities, having no friends that could help me be aware of shit & just my parents not saying shit.(My dad laughed when he found out I never saw any of the Final Destination movies the day we bing watched them a few months ago, I didn't have the ability to find them online & shit so the only reason I'd have known was if he had shown the movies to me)
These make me happy for my parents and schooling. My parents were pretty strict about me going out and stuff when i was a teen, but they made sure to talk to me about puberty, sex, relationships, responsibility, drinking and smoking, peer pressure etc. I can’t imagine just never being told those things. you don’t just reach a certain age and know them without someone else telling you. crazy
I was a sheltered kid and all I was allowed to do was home chores. I was restricted so much that in my teens the only past times I was allowed were listening to radio, journaling and reading bible. Yes, I went into psychosis.
This isn't terrible, especially at this age, but I have never been able to tell this story. In 7th grade we were learning about body systems and this particular day we were learning about the reproductive system. My mom never gave me "the talk" at that point and my friend told me a joke and I was very confused. She said something like, peg A has glue on it. It goes into hole B and now there is glue in hole B. I was so confused then next day in the Goodwill parking lot, my mom told me where babies come from. Now I get that joke.
Some of these are just plain sad.
The idea of being this sheltered is horrifying to me.
I mentioned to an ex coworker that I cleaned the office next door to the homeless shelter on the weekends to make extra money. She said she doesnt understand why homeless shelters exist and why dont they just go home
Both parents had a smart watch that kept displaying countdowns to the next event the baby was to experience
3:24 what's an r rated movie?
Edit: and, at 3:44, what's T rated and M rated games?
It's a US movie rating. If a movie is rated R, you can't see it in a movie theater without an adult with you if you're under age 17.
T and M are US video game ratings. T stands for teen and is aimed at kids 13 and older. M stands for mature, and most game stores won't sell an M-rated game to a kid under 17 without a parent present.
Man i feel a little better abt myself seeing these stories, i still have no social skills tho. Parents, please dont shelter your kids
Tbh I can relate to the beach thing, i grew up in pensacola, beach was like hr away
I think there's a difference btw horrible parenting and being overly sheltered
Sheltering is a subset of horrible parenting, the same way dogs are a subset of animals
@@aaronodonoghue1791 Not necessarily. You can be sheltered but also be taught basic life skills unlike most of the people featured here but it just seems like horrible parenting in this video because they both sheltered them and never taught them what to do in the real world.