We've all done it or heard it - "if you're naughty then Santa won't come" ,"if you pull that face and the wind changes, you'll stay looking like that"


I remember that my mum and dad told me that babies came when a boy and girl kissed and passed on a seed (I later kissed a girl and informed her she was now pregnant)

my wife was told by her parents:

1) that you shouldn't swim after eating...because your tummy will explode

2) if you press the button in the midle of a cars handbrake then it will selfdestruct

but what clearly nonsence lies have you been told or told your kids.

That there was a little tomte in the fridge turning the light on and off

my mum told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i'd poo out bubbles.

They always said that if we stared a handicapped people we will end up just like them.
They could have just said stop looking it's rude to stare

Parents are liars.

I never went blind

There was something else too but I've forgotten what it was....butit only clicked a few weeks ago and Im in my 30s - must have been good!!

whistle said:

I was told it would stick to the inside of my bum, which is what I tell my kids today.

My parents told me it was against the law to sit in the front seat of a car until you were 13 years old

endymion said:

Isn't that true?

chocolatehandles said:

Is it I just assumed my parents wanted to keep me in the back seat

surely it's not true

endymion said:

I looked in our road rules, it doesn't even say! Under 7s don't have to have a booster in the back seat. I always thought it was 9 for front seat

endymion said:

It goes by body weight.

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah my parents are liars

endymion said:

I tell my kids 9 just so they don't argue

ZombieKitten said:

you liar

endymion said:

I'm just doing my best, trying my hardest, not knowing any better

ZombieKitten said:

I think now it's about height because of the Air Bags - well that's what I tell the Kids so they don't ask

ZombieKitten said:

Oh well at least your children can go to a therapist to recover from the trauma I guess

chocolatehandles said:

I told them it's only OK to sit in the front of my car not daddy's, because the airbags will kill them

If you keep sucking your thumb it will wear down to a stump.

This was reinforced by the fact they knew a guy who had lost his thumb....sneaky!!!!

PanthaGirl said:

Those last two may not be medically accurate But sounds like good advice all the same

Oh dear do I sound like a parent

endymion said:

endymion said:

Yah U do lol.


On another note what gets me about these myths is that in fact, parents are consciously teaching their kids to lie / white lie...

ZombieKitten said:

They must fear for you every time you're in the front of their daddy's car

chocolatehandles said:

they couldn't give a shit about me apparently

ZombieKitten said:

Is that because you lie to them

chocolatehandles said:

I believe those things I tell them, technically they aren't lies

If I was pouting my mom and aunts would tell me to stop or a bird would come by and poop on my lip.

CarrieMpls said:

my mum threatened to SIT on mine, that was probably not a lie