Has your parents ever told you something when you were little that you learned was not true?

Question

My mom told me to "stop playing with the lights...you'll burn down the house".

Answer 1

mom told me not 2 take a shower immediately after taking my shoes off... she said i'l lose my legs

Answer 2

Other than the stuff about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny, Toothefairy etc, my mom told me I could do whatever i wanted. Not true: I'm a teen and i'm stuck ball-and-chain to my house lol.

Answer 3

My mom said if you eat raw potato you'll get worms.

If you put a baby's ear to the wind they'll get an ear infection.

If you go out with wet hair, you'll catch a cold

If you keep crying, your eyes will fall out.

If you cross your eyes, they'll get stuck that way

If you keep cracking your knuckles, you'll get arthritis.

I'm sure there are TONS more. My mom loved to control us with LIES.

Easter Bunny
Santa Clause
Tooth Fairy

Answer 4

After my sister died in the middle of the night from a congenital heart defect, my parents had me graduate from a crib to the very same twin bed that she died in. Above my head, on the wall, she hung an embroidered prayer that read: "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take". My mother told me that she didn't want me to die without this necessary prayer. I was afraid to fall asleep at night!

Answer 5

No I still meet Santa at the Mall every Dec 18th!

Answer 6

haha sure I know they lied to me all of the time and now I do lie every once in a while to my kids because it saves so much time when telling them not to do something that I don't feel like explaining or if it's something that they wouldn't understand anyways. I think most parents do it. My dad once told me I had to get out of his garage while he was working in it because he was mixing something that could explode. I went inside and worried that our garage was going to explode with my dad in there. I think that I was just bugging him ;)

Answer 7

My mom said "Were just taking Spot to a big farm where all the dogs run free and have all the food they can eat".

I am now an animal activist and rescuer!

Answer 8

Yes.....They told me the dog we left at my aunt's house while we were on vacation ran away, when in reality they made arrangements to sell the dog to someone else! Nice thing to tell an eight year old!

Answer 9

We asked her what a button in the car was. It was the cigarette lighter, but she told us it would make the car fly. My sister started to cry, and she laughed. I was probably seven years old, too young to take that as a joke.

Answer 10

I was told that if I made a face at my brother, my face might freeze that way.

My dad used to tell us that when he was a kid, he used to walk ten miles to school everyday, barefooted, and in the snow (so we'd appreciate what we had and quit whining about what we didn't have).
When I got older and was teaching fourth grade, I once asked my students how many of them had dads that used to walk ten miles to school, in the snow, barefooted, etc... It was amusing, most of the kids raised their hands.
Must be a "Dad" story. :-D