Sasha
Mmm Helicobacter pylori..
OH yes, if you eat watermelon seeds then a watermelon will grow in your tummy. Or if you lie, your nose will grow.. hehe
Lies your parents told you
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Midwest Exotics
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One of my old teachers used to tell us that if you lie you get those white spots on your nails. (like if you smash it or something, but not real hard) A girl in my class used to get them often... lol
I don't remember my mom telling me any weird things when I was little. She was a teacher and that would have just gone against the grain. I didn't tell my kids odd things either, but I DID tell my nephew one. He lived with us for a few years when he was just a little guy and he hated mushrooms with a passion. Well, when I make stroganoff, I use cream of mushroom soup. He was refusing to eat it because it had fungus in it, so I said - oh pssssht - they aren't REAL mushrooms. They are synthetic. I have no idea why, but it worked. 20 years later, he still loves stroganoff, but he did figure out they were real and not synthetic. 
eroomlorac
Poppy the mosaic squibbit
Good one, Tunes!
The bubble gum threads reminded me of one. I used to always swallow my gum and my friends told me if I swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for 7 years! I still can't think of my from my Mom, though.
The bubble gum threads reminded me of one. I used to always swallow my gum and my friends told me if I swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for 7 years! I still can't think of my from my Mom, though.
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Newt
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I used to get told picking my nose would make me dumb... cause the boogers weren't really boogers, but were bits of my brain. Thus every time I picked my nose I was removing pieces of my brain!
Also my grandma used to get the ear wax out of our ears, then tell us our ears were so dirty that potatoes were growing in there.
Mum used to tell us all sorts of stories when we were little. Like that fairies lived in the tree at the bottom of the garden, that the cupboard under the stairs was sometimes a gateway to a different world, only that we couldnt get through, but pixies could come through to see us. Also that at night time our toys would come to life and play.....I really believed it all and used to repeat these stories to kids at school....no wonder everyone thought I was nuts!!
Also my grandma used to get the ear wax out of our ears, then tell us our ears were so dirty that potatoes were growing in there.
Mum used to tell us all sorts of stories when we were little. Like that fairies lived in the tree at the bottom of the garden, that the cupboard under the stairs was sometimes a gateway to a different world, only that we couldnt get through, but pixies could come through to see us. Also that at night time our toys would come to life and play.....I really believed it all and used to repeat these stories to kids at school....no wonder everyone thought I was nuts!!
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sunshine
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My parents told me that they were vampires....
My dad also let me watch War of the Worlds and then the next day there were illegal aliens on the news and I started freaking out.
Umm... my grandmother told me ha I couldn't have an African American Bubble Foam Barbie doll because the color would come off in the tub and change me colors... *rolls eyes*
My aunt told me ET lived in the shed.
My fiance writes to my kids as Santa every year in response to a writing assignment I give.... I totally freaked one kid out a couple years ago. He was the non-believer in the class... ha!
My dad also let me watch War of the Worlds and then the next day there were illegal aliens on the news and I started freaking out.
Umm... my grandmother told me ha I couldn't have an African American Bubble Foam Barbie doll because the color would come off in the tub and change me colors... *rolls eyes*
My aunt told me ET lived in the shed.
My fiance writes to my kids as Santa every year in response to a writing assignment I give.... I totally freaked one kid out a couple years ago. He was the non-believer in the class... ha!
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bubbadoo38
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Peggy reminded me of one I used to use with a couple of girls I used to babysit and their mom loved it and used it too.
These girls would not eat anything that had pepper on it or looked like it had pepper on it, and I use it frequently, so one day I told them it was just a little dirt and they would be fine they ate like champs and never complained.
Funny how eating dirt was OK but not pepper.
These girls would not eat anything that had pepper on it or looked like it had pepper on it, and I use it frequently, so one day I told them it was just a little dirt and they would be fine they ate like champs and never complained.
Funny how eating dirt was OK but not pepper.
eroomlorac
Poppy the mosaic squibbit
Oh, I thought of another one I told my kids. My oldest son was always afraid 'monsters' were in his closet or under his bed. I gave him a spray bottle filled with water but I told him it was 'monster repellent'. I told him when he saw a monster or thought one was there to spray it and it would go away. It worked like a charm. It made my son feel like he had some control and he wasn't a 'victim' of these 'monsters'. I think this was a good lie! :dance3:
Nancy
Hooked on Hogs
I used to love lima beans until one day my older cousin and I were out in the garden and he was showing me tomato worms. EWWWWW! Then he told me that lima beans were sliced tomato worms.
My grandfather always used to say to eat my bread crust because it would put hair on my chest. Not wanting hair on my chest, I refused to eat crusts and it took me until into my adulthood to be able to eat crust without thinking of that. :hilarious:
My grandfather always used to say to eat my bread crust because it would put hair on my chest. Not wanting hair on my chest, I refused to eat crusts and it took me until into my adulthood to be able to eat crust without thinking of that. :hilarious:
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Chinniechantel
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Haha, Nancy, my dad did the same thing to me! It will put hair on your chest. I wonder why they would say that, it just made more work for them to cut off all the crusts.
tkc1038
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I have quite a few actually ones I pull on my kids to get them to behave(well it is always worth a try) MY only request is DONT TELL MY KIDS
I have a special phone number I call for the Easter Bunny and Santa and if they dont behave and stop trying to kill one another I will call Santa or the Easter Bunny depending what time of the year it is. I have gone as far as picking up the phone and pretending to call and saying stuff like"Uh huh it true Santa/EB he wont stop screaming at his sisters, or threating them" My 6yr old falls for it everytime and he is good as gold for a few days.
Um Veggies make you smarter than your siblings.
Bread has bugs in it to make it taste so good(this is true yeast is a bug).
We eat chicken ****s
Beef butt
Pork heiney
If you walk away from me in a store or fair the boogy monster will take you away and make you his story slave
Lavender will take the big bad NIghtmares away(kids hate the smell, but it does make them sleep better)
thats it for now.
I have a special phone number I call for the Easter Bunny and Santa and if they dont behave and stop trying to kill one another I will call Santa or the Easter Bunny depending what time of the year it is. I have gone as far as picking up the phone and pretending to call and saying stuff like"Uh huh it true Santa/EB he wont stop screaming at his sisters, or threating them" My 6yr old falls for it everytime and he is good as gold for a few days.
Um Veggies make you smarter than your siblings.
Bread has bugs in it to make it taste so good(this is true yeast is a bug).
We eat chicken ****s
Beef butt
Pork heiney
If you walk away from me in a store or fair the boogy monster will take you away and make you his story slave
Lavender will take the big bad NIghtmares away(kids hate the smell, but it does make them sleep better)
thats it for now.
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shadowcat11
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My mom never really told us "lies" growing up.. But To keep Jacie from having a fit about wanting to ride in one of the special carts at stores that look like cars we just tell her they are "broken", she says ok and leaves it at that.
If she is playing with a toy in the store and we are not planning on buying anything we tell her that the toy lives in the store and it has to stay with its "family". I know these won't work much longer though...:hilarious:
If she is playing with a toy in the store and we are not planning on buying anything we tell her that the toy lives in the store and it has to stay with its "family". I know these won't work much longer though...:hilarious:
equus_peduus
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Ash
Trouble....
I just saw that on the news!
My mom never really told me any 'lies'. But she was VERY gruesome when we were doing something she didn't want us to do, such as playing on the stairs.
"Stop playing on the stairs, or you'll fall and crack your head open and your brains will come out all over the floor."
Yup, that worked! Rofl
My mom never really told me any 'lies'. But she was VERY gruesome when we were doing something she didn't want us to do, such as playing on the stairs.
"Stop playing on the stairs, or you'll fall and crack your head open and your brains will come out all over the floor."
Yup, that worked! Rofl
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My_3_Chins
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Oooohhh!!! I did that too....a LOT, but I think it actually reversed the process - haha!
My mom and dad used to always tell me (when getting teased about being flat-chested....asked constantly if I was a member of the IBTC - itty-bitty ***** commitee - lol!), that I would have more ****s if I gained weight. I was very skinny. I had one of those GROWING UP SKIPPER barbies....don't know if any of you had one? The one where you turned her arm all the way around and it made her grow about a foot (in barbie size) taller and her ****s would grow!!! I ate WEIGHT-ON, banana-flavored (yuck) tablets like crazy, as well as doing the exercises, because I thought if I bulked up I would get ****s!!! Since then, I have had 3 kids...bulked up plenty...still no ****s - go figure! LOL!
Oh...and talk about a **** COMPLEX - that should be my nickname! Just couldn't every go the implants route - too many medical complications possible (I work in the medical field), and most of those things must be replaced about every 10-15 years - for those of you who did not know that.
P.S. I HAD A FLAT-CHESTED FRIEND WHO WOULD COME OVER TO MY HOUSE SO WE COULD DO THE EXERCISE THING TOGETHER....imagine...both of us stupid teenagers standing there doing our exercises, chanting..."We must...we must...we must increase our bust!!!" LMAO just thinking back about it!!!
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My_3_Chins
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My parents told me if I swallowed gum it would block my intestines and I would not be able to poop! Then they would have to take me to the hospital for an operation - LOLOL!!! I swallowed gum several times by accident and was TERRIFIED....did not DARE tell my parents because I did not want an operation.
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Ash
Trouble....
LOL I remember reading "Are you there god, it's me Margaret" in like... fifth grade, and the teacher gave us the disclaimer that that... exercise didn't work. And my mom says you lose ****s with kids not gain them :rofl: At least, that was how hers worked.
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hedgiekel
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These are all so hilarious! I have had a lot of the same things told to me...the watermelon seeds, the hair stories, the bubble gum...
I know one silly thing...when I was little, the sound "yahooey" that Goofy would make whenever he fell in the cartoon scared me. My dad, wanting to torture me, said that was the "hooey monster" and it was going to get me. All he would have to do was yell out "hooey" and I'd go running and screaming. What a meanie...
He also did the same thing with my cousin and the basement. She told him there was a witch down there that would eat her and she would come running upstairs screaming and crying. There was a time too when we were at our grandparent's house and she ran next door (to her house) to get something. My dad called her on the phone and said he saw the witch through the window over there. Boy did she come running fast!
I know one silly thing...when I was little, the sound "yahooey" that Goofy would make whenever he fell in the cartoon scared me. My dad, wanting to torture me, said that was the "hooey monster" and it was going to get me. All he would have to do was yell out "hooey" and I'd go running and screaming. What a meanie...
He also did the same thing with my cousin and the basement. She told him there was a witch down there that would eat her and she would come running upstairs screaming and crying. There was a time too when we were at our grandparent's house and she ran next door (to her house) to get something. My dad called her on the phone and said he saw the witch through the window over there. Boy did she come running fast!
