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Lies you told your kids
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This might seem really childish to some people, but I can't be the only one that's told a porky to a child? most of the time, my brothers know I'm lying because whatever I'm saying is deliberately outrageous, and we have a good giggle about it. But every now and then, a real corker slips through their radar and I'm feeling a bit too mischievous to tell them.
We (I say we, I don't know who actually came up with it. Wasn't me, but I'm not exactly giving it away either) told my youngest brother that the reason the tooth fairy forgot to leave some money under his pillow for two (TWO!) nights in a row was because the earthquake in Japan shook a lot of people's teeth out and she was busy
I'm actually shocked Mum's letting this one continue.
I also managed to convince him that my passionfruit halves (with all the goodness scooped out and eaten) was a geode, and he was rather panicked when Mum threw it away.
A friend of mine was convinced by her older sisters that if you put some ham in the VCR it would play a short film about pigs.
We (I say we, I don't know who actually came up with it. Wasn't me, but I'm not exactly giving it away either) told my youngest brother that the reason the tooth fairy forgot to leave some money under his pillow for two (TWO!) nights in a row was because the earthquake in Japan shook a lot of people's teeth out and she was busy
I'm actually shocked Mum's letting this one continue.I also managed to convince him that my passionfruit halves (with all the goodness scooped out and eaten) was a geode, and he was rather panicked when Mum threw it away.
A friend of mine was convinced by her older sisters that if you put some ham in the VCR it would play a short film about pigs.
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not parental deception but my cousin's boyfriend told her anchovies were made out of fruit and for years she believed him.
I have physically LOL'd. Thanks
Dunno if they were lies or things i/my friends thought, but from when i was a kid -
The TV broke because all the dead people piled up in the back and the TV man had to come and clean them out
The proverbial eat a seed of something and said seed will grow into the tree of said something.
If you unscrew your belly button, your bum will fall off.
People who died in films etc on TV were actually criminals who were sentenced to death for their crimes, so they put them in a film and killed them so they didn't have to kill actors.
The sort of thing i swore id never say
I heard that one! Not as a child, fortunately. It's pure evil genius.
The classic: elephants nest in trees. How do we know this? Well why else do they have long trunks, so they can swing about and hang onto branches
My brothers also told me that tomato seeds were actually spiders eggs. Didnt stop me eating them though!
Once when I was little we went to a restaurant with a fountain and there were frogs. I wanted to sit next to it but my mum didn't, and my big brother said the following to me:
If a frog jumps on your shoulder and kisses you, you'll get sick.
I believed it.
awwwwww
If you eat too much pure sugar, e.g. sugar cubes, you'll get worms.
Bless him, he was 18 and still genuinely believed it, even felt the need to tell the rest of us out of concern for our welfare. Took a lot of persuasion it was rubbish.
Kids who eat too much sugar are more likely to keep getting worms, or find them harder to get rid of
Made the rest of us giggle, a lot, when we eventually persuaded him otherwise.
cue ruined vcr and grounded kid.
I was convinced up until a few years ago that I used to be able to fly when I was little. Like, not properly fly, but be able to basically levitate.
Part of me wonders why it took me so long to realise that I just had very, very vivid dreams
Little Billy, Daddy will always love you.
People tell silly lies to kids and think it's funny and/or that it makes their parenting job easier, however it does happen that when they grow up they might still not have understood that some of them were lies.
Not cleaning your ears will grow potatoes.
Swallowing gum will stay in your stomach - was even told it would wrap around your heard and give you a heart attack.
Drinking coffee when I was young would stunt my growth.
Eyes will go sqaure if you sit close to a TV.
Carrots will improve your eyesight/help you see in the dark.
Touching toads = warts.
You'll die if you get into a pool if you've eaten in the past hour or something. I was actually told this as a kid, I wasn't taking any risks lol.
The wind will freeze your face if you pull stupid expressions.
If you keep playing with it, it'll fall off. I was never told this one personally, but my auntie did tell my cousin because he was curious what it was as a toddler.
Which is true. Carrots are a good source of Vitamin A, essential for good eyesight. Amongst other things, a difficiency in vitamin A causes the condition night blindness.
picking them wont, but if you eat them, its a strong diuretic