what's the most stupid thing you were told as a child .And you believed it?

Question

And do you tell your kids the same thing ........i was told that if you pull faces at people your face would stay like that ...

Answer 1

Once some kids told me if we burried our ice cream money it would be a good game. I wondered for years why I couldn't find it.

Answer 2

I lived in a cul-de-sac *** crescent where there was a small area of grass in the middle. In the middle of the grass, there was a shallow hole where no grass grew. I believe that this hole was the centre of the Earth.

I used to believe that the Earth rotated by the power of objects that moved on it's surface, but I couldn't understand how this really worked whjen I saw motor vehicles travelling in opposite directions on the same piece of road at the same time.

I used to believe that clouds were solid objects and were held up by the tallest things in the Earth. At first, I thought it was the trees which were the tallest things in my neighbourhood. Then I saw the film King Kong (1933) and watched with amazement Kong climbing the Empire State building. I then assumed that, since skyscrapers were taller than trees, It was skyscrapers that held up the clouds. Then I saw a documentary about the Sir edmund hilary and Sherpa Tensing's assault on Mt Everest. Mountains were taller than skyscrapers, so they must be holding the clouds up. But I began to see cracks in my tehory: there wasn't enough mountains to hold all the worlds' clouds up.

A teacher in primary year 3 / 3rd grade told us about how the sun picked the water up from the oceans and dropped it on the land. I then thought that the sun came to the Earth and picked up water with it's bare hands to do this. T me, this explained why the sun in Africa was hotter than in Europe. The European sun didn't come to the Earth to pick up the water, perhaps because it didn't know how to do this.

I also believed that the phlegm you pick from your nose was bits of your brain cells, which | believe wer a few inches long becuse it drawn that way in a book.

Answer 3

because it really is exciting and the children like listening to thoughts like that. Why do human beings insist on taking the exciting out of issues? Why does each and every thing should be genuine? Yeah i will tell my youngsters all about the easter bunny and santa clause and tooth fairy. enable them have their fantasies for thus long as they could. children develop up thanks to quick. it really is now to not say that i'm now unlikely to reveal them the authentic clarification for vacation journeys or for that remember even as they become old the position they got here from (surely no longer from lower than a gooseberry bush!) yet even as they are youthful delight of their innocence. i believe sorry in case you grew up no longer believing in something. they do no longer comprehend what they were lacking.

Answer 4

We were told if we went to bed with out hair wet our noses would rot off, i believed it.
That lying on your bed eating will make you grow ears. I believed it.
That eating your pumpkin will give you curly hair and red cheeks. I believed it.
Eating meat late at night will give you nightmares.
Swallowing pips will block your stomach with all the plants growing in there.
That pulling faces when the clock strikes 12 your face will change.
I believed everything .
Ohhh yes the worst one still, if you did any sewing on a Sunday you were sticking the needle in Jesus's eye.
Hell that was a cruel one.

Answer 5

If I watch too much tv my eyes will go square. I was so worried as a kid when mum told me to turn it off I did! I tell my two exactly the same thing, they do listen but my eldest always wants an explanation of how her eyes will go square! She's only 5!

And also if you pick your nose your brains fall out!

Answer 6

As a little girl I couldnt work out what Tampax were for as the label said "worn internally". I asked my mother what on earth this meant and she said it was for a box of tissues, but I know different = it took another few years to find out the truth. I hope I never lied to my kids like that.

Answer 7

My mum used to say that if i slep with the blanket over my head then i'd get knits. I got them from someone at school eventually- so i beleived it for ages. I have a stigma attached to it to this day even though i know it's not nowhere near the truth. Don't have kids yet- but i won't scare them like that!

Answer 8

That the little white spots you get on your tongue appear if you have been lying
That eating dry bread gives you worms
Eating paper gives you worms
Make a funny face and it will stay like that if the wind changes

But the stupidest one - I grew up thinking llamas had two heads, one one each end.

Answer 9

When I was about 4years old, my father told me that my mother had left us because she didn`t like me and didn`t want me, and the only reason I hadn`t been sent to an orphanage was because he was going to let me live with him. I grew up hating my mother, I never saw her again. Many years later I discovered that my father had lied. I tried for many years to find my mother, eventually I did, only to find that she had died six months before.Why do parents lie to their children? It dosen`t make any difference whether it is a big lie like mine or a little lie like pulling faces; they all make the child lose trust in their parents.

Answer 10

Like you, I was also told if I made ugly faces, my face would freeze that way. I once asked my cousin what would happen if I ate too much. He told me I would burst open. I believed this until my mom told me the truth.