what untruths did your parents tell you when you were a child?

Question

when i was a very young curious child my mother told me that kissing with your mouth open made babies, which obviosly turned out to be a massive lie!!!! what stories did your parents tell you ?

Answer 1

Eating the crusts of bread made your hair curly. I've still got straight hair.

Answer 2

My Dad Use Ta Tell Me When I Was Young, Like 3 or Maybe Even 4, That If I Kept Playing With My Belly-Button, I Would Un-Screw It And My Bottom Would Fall Off... Lol!
I Don't Still Play With My Belly-Button, Lol, But It Used To Scare Me At The Time!

Answer 3

My mum used to ask her to help bury poor little dead animals, such as baby birds who had fallen out of their nests etc. So after burying them, I wanted to make little crosses for their graves and she told me that is not allowed because animals have no souls and can't go to heaven.
So I asked my Infant School teacher about it and she said the same.
I refused to believe it and crept out in the night with clumsily made crosses for the tiny graves.
And I have never believed it. Don't make any crosses for the graves now as the experience made me feel Christians are too arrogant and unkind. Became a Buddhist; they treat animals with respect.
P.S. The Christian Community I was brought up in (including parents and teacher) all said that animals were placed on Earth for the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve to use for food and clothing or basically, just to USE! What bigger lie is there?

Answer 4

When I was a kid my grad mother told me that if I go to the river any of the mayor holy days, I'd become a fish, I was scared to do so until one day I had no choice and so I realise it wasn't true

Answer 5

So many answers!
But I cant find Father Christmas - the best white lie I know!

Answer 6

That there were little people that lived in ATM machines and that's how the money came out of the wall and the money didn't come out when they were on holiday!! LOL

Answer 7

I think the whole God thing was the biggest lie - but neither of my parents told me that. /That/ was foisted on me by Sunday School.

My folks let me make up my own mind about things, in my own sweet time. Bless them.

Answer 8

That if you played with the shell from your boiled eggs, you would get bumps all over your fingers.

Sitting on a cold wall would give you piles

Answer 9

That thunder and lightening was the angels having chariot races. The thunder was the noise of the wheels, and the lightening was the sparks flying as they spun around the corners.

That she had leukemia when she didn't. (mum, obviously)

Answer 10

My Dad always told me that drinking coffee put hair on a person's chest.