What lies have your parents told you as a child?

15 years ago
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I was a very intelligent child and usually I knew when my parents lied... I remember that when I was very, very small my mom didn't want me to eat ice cream (because I was just to little) and she told me that it's made of pepper. But it didn't work - I asked her why she's eating it, if it's so disgusting. After that my parents never tried lying to me 🙂

15 years ago
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santa claus, he wasn't real...
When life gives you lemons, you throw em at people. > 🙂

15 years ago
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"A red sky means the angels are baking bread" - my mom 😮
Unforgivable attempt at religious imprinting 😔

15 years ago
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Quote from Dissidence
Unforgivable attempt at religious imprinting 😔
When it was raining my mom would say
"The virgin mary is crying, have you done something bad?"
It worked! I was 5 and thinking "crap, how come she knows?!"
You really got me there mom.
15 years ago
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Lol. my parents believed it was bad and unhealthy to lie to children. I never even believed in santa clause.

15 years ago
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Trying to come up with something my parents lied about but i can only remember are the times they have toled me the brutal truth of it, looking back in it now i would rather have had an childhood of blissful ignorance them the hard facts of life and one to many sleepless nights...
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"

15 years ago
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i used to stay up really late so
my mom told me if i sleep early I'd grow...liess
my grandma told me if i didn't sleep at night
a children eating witch will come.ididnt really believe it
never fr0wn cause you never know whos in love with your sm 🙂 e
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15 years ago
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When I was really young we used to drive by farmland with these big bales of hay all over them. I asked what they were and my parents told me they were dinosaur poop (I was very into dinosaurs at the time). It took a while to figure out the truth >:-(
"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

15 years ago
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All the classics like santa, easter bunny....
Also I remember being told, that if I had a thousand dreams about flying, I'd be able to fly for real (I do fly in most of my dream up until now, I'm still hoping she just messed up the numbers...)
Also, stuff like broken glass means good fortune as well as a pidgeon sh***ing on you (I still happen to hear that, a couple of months ago an unidentified bird really did the unspeakable...)
Ah I nearly forgot, when I was pre-school age, she used to tell me that keeping things to yourself (like secrets or worries) will cause stomach problems ,or in the worst case Peptic ulcer (I wiki'ed that one)
- She made me spill all of my secrets with just that remark...
I guess I'd lie to my kids about stuff like christmas and the like.
Maybe some white lies when it's convenient, but not that last one to make my child spill every last one of their secrets (that was really mean thinking back now)

15 years ago
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Santa Claus! 😃

15 years ago
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The Easter Bunny was killed by Scott (a family friend) and his son now runs the business.
Counting sheep will help you fall asleep.
touching worms will kill you
and killing bees will cause you to be poisoned
not doing homework will land you in jail
do your chores or santa wont come
playing too much games and president bush will beat you with a bush
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
it's pretty funny now that i look back ^.^
D'oh!
15 years ago
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Quote from 0sirt
All the classics like santa, easter bunny....
Also, stuff like broken glass means good fortune as well as a pidgeon sh***ing on you (I still happen to hear that, a couple of months ago an unidentified bird really did the unspeakable...)
I was standing below a tree and got a rain of pigeons's goodies...and I left intact, all clean..must have been bad luck 😀

15 years ago
Posts: 38
errmm...what lies can ppl tell abt santa?? - is he actually skinny or somethin? XD
anyway i was actually one of those lucky kiddies who was told that when ice-cream vans play their tune it means that they are out of ice-cream 🙁 ...yeah i know, it's pretty evil. My dad still cracks up over it >.>
My mom told me "you'll DIE early if you become a marine biologist because all the salt water will ..etc..etc so you HAVE to become a doctor"
as a 4 year old it scared the crap out of me. They crushed my dreams now because of them I find no purpose(goal) in life, I only follow their wishes-->to become a doctor.
I just do as I'm told... 😐
oh, and "the cat ate the goldfishes" and because of that I hated cats until now, not that I mind that lie. i'm not fond of cats either way (cause they killed 4 of my birds)
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