What are your house rules where you live?

You have to have rules. I'm pretty laid back. As long as my daughter is doing well and keeping her grades up then she can use the computer etc. We share in the household chores and without being told she goes to bed at a decent hour. She is 15 and really a pretty easy kid to deal with for the most part. The rules were stricter when she was younger and changed based on her ability to handle responsebility.

no internet after waking up, one must clean the bedroom first and eat and clean the kitchen, no dogs allowed inside the house too... but still dogs gets in heheh, they like to sleep in my room. wash dishes after eating too...

i also do think that if you teach young kids manners,they will go a long way in life and i think it will do them good.i.e,to sat please,thankyou ,sorry,to cover their mouths with their hands while coughing and no over-straining on school days,etc.

[i]Hi carrine, Great discipline... Here, we have no rules..LOL! I will just tell my hubby saturday morning, I want music rather than TV shows since we have our TV turned on almost every night after his work![/i]

I have always instil the importance of house rules to my kids. As young minds need to be trained to accept and follow some kind of rules and to understand the importance of them and that as parents we should inculcate in them rules are meant to be obeyed so that they will trained their minds to obey rules when they grow up as they will meet more bigger rules in their lives. My house rule is they should make up their beds on rising up and they should return the things they took back to its original place after usage.

i came from a house of with pretty strict parents. I'm 21, and i still live with my parents, so i still have to follow some of the rules I was allowed 2 hours of tv or computer a day on school days, and 4 hours on non school days. And on school days, my homework had to be done before this time. When I was being lectured or punished, mom and dad were "Ma'am" and "Sir". I always had to say "please" "thank you" and "your welcome" or I'd get yelled at. I was spanked alot as a kid. When i was a teenager, up until i was done in high school, my curfew was 10, and that was very strict, i've been punished many times for coming in at 10:05 or so. After high school though, i don't have a curfew I set my seat at the table every night, when i was being punished, i set the whole table. I also have to wash dishes twice a week, and that doesn't mean using the dish washer. I have to make my bed every morning, and make sure my room is clean. Pajamas placed on my pillow, bathrobe on my bed, and the only thing that can go on the floor are my night time slippers. I also had to do my laundry as soon as I was old enough to learn how to No shoes in the house, and this eventually became a "Shoes off Slippers on" rule (Flip flops would do for the summer). If i was ever caught with shoes on, or no slippers on, past my front door, i'd get yelled at. When i was really young, probably up until i was 12 or 13, i had to be in my pjs and ready for bed 2 hours before my bed time. If my bed time was 9, by 7 I had to be done with my bath/shower, in my pajamas, and teeth brushed. I also had to be in my bathrobe and slippers too (a different pair than what i'd wear during the day too). If any of this was missing, i'd be punished When I did get punished, it'd last a week at a time. During this week, no TV or computer at all, i had to set the table for everyone every day, wash the dishes everyday. I also had to get ready for bed as soon as i got home from school, same procedure as before, but happened as soon as I was home. Then i had to do my homework right away. Once i was done with all those chores, i was sent to my room to sit and read. My parents would check up on me alot in there, and theyd even get mad at me for taking off my robe or slippers, so those had to stay on until it was bed time, which also came an hour earlier. Those are the main ones. Like I said, i still have to follow some of those rules, like washing dishes, setting my spot at the table, slippers in the house, bathrobe with pjs... Pretty strict, but i live with it