Things Your Parents Told You That Turned Out NOT To Be True?

Question

Besides, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, what else do you have?
I would really like to read what you have for this question.
Thanks and have fun.

Mommy and Daddy are just wrestling!
I am middle aged and I still prefer to remember it as Mommy and Daddy just wrestling,
Carrots make your eyes stronger is great also,
Hope I get some more.
Thanks for the answers so far, a lot of fun reading for me.
Thanks again.

Another great one I remember,
Your face will freeze like that! Thanks, I allmost forgot that forgotten gem of parents insight.
There are some more, at least my parents told me so.....

Answer 1

That they were my parents

Answer 2

Dear Sue,
My mom told me and my siblings that if we did not become Jehovah's Witnesses by February 3, 1962 when Armageddon would be coming then we would be lost forever.

I know now it was just her way of saying the boogey man will get you if ... or santa will only bring you a lump of coal ... but February 3, 1962 came and went but nothing happened. Now she says she doesn't remember saying it.

I never found anything in literature from the Watchtower about that but I sure did find lots of other dates which the Watchtower made prophecies for which didn't happen.

Now I read Deuteronomy 18:20-22 and don't listen to the JWs.

Edit - On a lighter note I think both of my parents told me that if I swallowed my gum my ribs would stick together and mom told me that if I kept on frowning my face would freeze that way.

Answer 3

Masturbation causes insanity
Waiting till you were older ensures a better marriage
Elders (all elders) deserve respect
Hard work and dedication guarantee success
Cheaters never win
Deal fairly with others and they will deal fairly with you
Only homosexuals have anything to do with the arts so you won't like it trying to do something creative.

Answer 4

My uncle had sex with my cousin and my parents kept that hidden... and now I'm mentally scarred for life and how freaking close I am to the twisted result of this...

Answer 5

My father had weird sayings like:
"Your mom/grandma is going to have you hard to catch when she sees that" (typically when I broke something, messed something up, etc)...I always thought, well yeah cause I'm running from her!
"You and me are going to fist city, and one of us ain't coming back, and it ain't goin'a be me." (I got that one for smarting off) Very confusing.
Oh, the common one "This is going to hurt me more then it hurts you" - yeah, right. Leather strap across my behind hurts pretty bad.
"You want a knuckle sandwich?" (got that one for smarting off too) Yeah, sure, please with mayo on top?

Most of them never turned out to be true, my dad didn't hit me with his fist, just grew up in a violent home and that was his only way of telling me to settle down. I was pretty rowdy, but like father like daughter.

Answer 6

"Mommy and Daddy are just wrestling" when having sex lmao

Answer 7

they said if you deleted your email address you would automatically be suspended off of here, but both Jane Furrows and this smart lady name Iris said that wasn't true, so i'll be DARNED if i'm gonna delete my email!

Answer 8

That carrots make you see in the dark!!!

Now I am an adult I wear glasses!!!

Answer 9

that spinach would make me strong like popeye, that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a tree would grow out of my ears..... that God would strike me dead with lightening when I did something wrong...... that she could make it rain by doing a rain dance......

Answer 10

I think lying will make you loose the teeth

Answer 11

"Your face will freeze like that."
"If you play with it, you'll go blind."
"I have eyes in the back of my head."