Woman Recalls Parents’ ‘Weird’ Rules—Then Has Realization

A millennial woman from San Diego, California, is going viral for all the "weird" things her family did growing up.

Michel Janse (@michel.c.janse) rattled off a list of habits unique to her parents in a reel on Instagram.

Her family, she said, had "even and odd days" for healthy and unhealthy breakfasts—cereal and sugary treats on the first, third and fifth; eggs and fruit on the second, fourth, and sixth. Janse added: "It was my mom’s way of saying, ‘These are the rules . You can’t have sugary cereal every day.’"

Screen time was just as carefully managed. Over summer breaks, Michel, now 28, and her sister Jacqueline, now 25, earned poker chips—each representing 10 minutes of screen time.

"We would get three a day," Michel said. "So, if you wanted to watch a movie, you had to