"You let your kids jump on the furniture?"

so the other day I was thinking...I remember going to my grandparents and my aunts house and it was an absolute NO-NO to jump on the furiture...and if I remember correctly you couldn't sit on some of them either...anyways I was thinking why? Why would you get something you couldn't sit on?.....well as you can see Greg and I are not as strict on this rule....our phase of life we are in now is basically "get-by" furniture and it's all fair game to jump on:) I guess us "gen-xer" parents a bit more laid back huh?