We may know our parents as the strict people who will ground us the moment we do something against the rules but do we all have an idea of how they were before all that? Just like us, our folks have gone through a lot while they were coming of age. And while we think they are strict now, they also used to be people who bent the rules or someone who made their own set of rules!

These 40 people shared how their parents were when they were young and to be honest, they are way cooler than they expected them to be!