Lies your parents told you...

12 Jul 2007

Now we all know the normal ones that parents tell, like the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas, but do you have any more unusual ones?
The thing that got me thinking about this was looking at some pics of me and my sister as kids this evening, I remembered that when I was younger we used to live on the continent, and the dry cleaning van that went round the local area used to play the same tune as ice cream vans do. So of course on return to the UK, everytime we heard an icecream van, my parents always said that it wasn't and it was actually the dry cleaning man so no ice cream for us sad

With both me and my sis being blonde it took us a long time to work out this evil ploy of theirs redface

So what fibs were you told.......or have you told your kids? Own up all you parents
biggrin

12 Jul 2007

Not to get hand and finger marks on glass windows
lol

12 Jul 2007

Quote by Versace Vase
Not to get hand and finger marks on glass windows

I've no idea what you're talking about young man innocent

12 Jul 2007

Mine used to always tell me I was beautiful.....
Swines...
lol

Mike xx

12 Jul 2007

Ahem i know someone who deserves a damn good polishing. lol

12 Jul 2007

My dad told my sister that cows were horses and visa versa no idea why lmao

12 Jul 2007

Someone told me something similar to the ice-cream van story you told..
He told me that his parents used to tell his brothers and sisters that when the ice-cream van chimed the bell......
........it had run out of ice-cream :shock:
Dave_Notts

12 Jul 2007

I told my daughter that monsters were called chocolate cakes from a very early age. She didnt even question it till she was about 6yrs old and even now at 12. If you say to her quickly chocolate cake her eyes will widen briefly :lol2:
She may need therapy later in life dunno

13 Jul 2007

Bees make honey and wasps make jam
You'll have you're eye out with that (Does anyone know of anyone ever 'having there eye out" with anything as a child???)

13 Jul 2007

freckles are a sign of beauty. If you are good all day, while you are sleeping the fairies will kiss you and it leaves a freckle behind.
My auntie told me that one and I tell it to my daughter.
I also told my daughter (when she was very young) that she was once a star in the sky, her dad plucked her out and put her in my tummy.
When she was born, she was so tiny, she lived in my pocket and slept in a matchbox.
(She's 8 now and she knows this is not true before you all report me for abuse or summat!) lol

One of the worst lies my mother told me was that my hamster had died when in fact she'd buried it alive as it was only hibernating! :shock:
I told my daughter that our ex-pets - 3 hamsters and a guinea pig - are all buried in the garden. There is actually only one corpse in my garden. The rest ended up in the wheely bin.

13 Jul 2007

I was horribly duped when I was about 10 yrs old.. I was eating what my mother had said was chicken but looking back it was dark in colour and quite salty.
It was rabbit :cry: :cry:

13 Jul 2007

My Mum always told me she was 21, for years I believed this, but can't remember the age I worked it out. We now do the same for our children (started it about 4 years ago) and despite having cards up with numbers on them, they still haven't twigged. But the older one did twig 4 years ago that we get older each year so we are now 25! Think he must have rumbled us now but not sure.
Another one, My Mum also wrote me a valentines card one year and told me it was hand delivered by a young boy in a private school uniform (was posh boys school nearby). I eventually rumbled her when I found the card was a pack of 8 greeting cards I found in her bureau :cry:
pink x

13 Jul 2007

When I was young I asked my dad what a belly button was for. He told me that you put salt in it and dip your chips in there when lying in bed :shock:
Louise xx
Ps. he doesnt really do that :giggle:

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Dave__Notts
Someone told me something similar to the ice-cream van story you told..
He told me that his parents used to tell his brothers and sisters that when the ice-cream van chimed the bell......
........it had run out of ice-cream :shock:
Dave_Notts

We still tell ours that now :giggle:

13 Jul 2007

we were told the ice cream van was the fish man !! :cry: rolleyes

j

13 Jul 2007

Quote by louise_and_joe
When I was young I asked my dad what a belly button was for. He told me that you put salt in it and dip your chips in there when lying in bed :shock:
Louise xx
Ps. he doesnt really do that :giggle:

mine told me if ya pressed ya belly button ya legs fall off lol

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Jaq__kryps
When I was young I asked my dad what a belly button was for. He told me that you put salt in it and dip your chips in there when lying in bed :shock:
Louise xx
Ps. he doesnt really do that :giggle:

mine told me if ya pressed ya belly button ya legs fall off lol

:rotflmao:

13 Jul 2007

Or kids thought the ice cream van was a fire engine we were rumbled when they actually saw the van instead of just hearing it lol

My Grandad told me and my sister if we hung our sandcastle buckets on the tree branches in the garden filled with grass and stuff the birds would fly over, think it was a nest and lay eggs in it for breakfast. Whenever we stayed with him we collected fresh eggs from our tree every morning :smug:
Oh and my Nan told me the tide goes out because someone pulls out the plug blink

13 Jul 2007

LOL @ this thread....i remember my mum and dad telling me if you swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap around your heart and kill you....I was about 21 before I dared swallow any. (its given me phobias baout swallowing cool

:P
They also told me if i bit my nails, finger bushes would grow inside me, and squeeze my insides, or if I ate apple pips an apple tree would grow in my stomach. :shock:

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Bonedigger
........ or if I ate apple pips an apple tree would grow in my stomach. :shock:

I was told that too, and to prove it they showed me a man that looked like a tree, or tree with a face on it. Depends if your believe it.

13 Jul 2007

My Nan used to say that if I swallowed chewing gum, I would blow bubbles out of my bum!! What she didn't realise is that I did it all the more because that sounded so cool lol

I used to tell my son when he was young that if he lied, a letter 'L' would appear on his tongue. It worked too because he couldn't see his own tongue without a mirror :P I never did any ice cream tricks though, I just used to sing 'la la la' at the top of my voice when I heard it to drown out the music! My son must have thought I had Tourettes! rotflmao

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Jaq__kryps
When I was young I asked my dad what a belly button was for. He told me that you put salt in it and dip your chips in there when lying in bed :shock:
Louise xx
Ps. he doesnt really do that :giggle:

mine told me if ya pressed ya belly button ya legs fall off lol
rotflmao

:laughabove:
My dad once told me that if i carried on poking around in my belly button it would come undone and i would fly around the room backwards like a deflating :high-smile: balloon :shock:
I walked around for ages after that with my hand over my belly button in case anyone else tried to poke it rolleyes

13 Jul 2007

I had the usual 'If you don't eat your crusts your hair won't curl', 'carrots help you see in the dark', 'if the wind changes, you'll stay like that!' :shock: and the one that gets me to this day 'if you tell lies, you'll get spots on your tongue' confused

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Sassy-Seren
I had the usual 'If you don't eat your crusts your hair won't curl', 'carrots help you see in the dark', 'if the wind changes, you'll stay like that!' :shock: and the one that gets me to this day 'if you tell lies, you'll get spots on your tongue'

Carrots do actually help you see in the dark! lol

Things I got include:
"If you pick your nose your brains will fall out!"
"If you don't clean out your ears potatos will start to grow in them!"

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Sassy-Seren
I had the usual 'If you don't eat your crusts your hair won't curl', 'carrots help you see in the dark', 'if the wind changes, you'll stay like that!' :shock: and the one that gets me to this day 'if you tell lies, you'll get spots on your tongue'

Our Mum's must have gone to the same school of sayings! I remember all those!
pink x

13 Jul 2007

I was told that God was crying & when it rained & he was angry whenever we had thunder & lightening lol

I remember always hiding under my bed thinking that he was angry with me sad

this is the last thing I would say to my child :shock:

13 Jul 2007

My mum always told me that if you picked your nose your eyes will fall out!!. I tell my little one the same thing.

13 Jul 2007

Another one of my Nan's was "take that penny out of your mouth! you'll have people going shopping in your tummy" dunno

13 Jul 2007

Quote by jaymar
I was horribly duped when I was about 10 yrs old.. I was eating what my mother had said was chicken but looking back it was dark in colour and quite salty.
It was rabbit :cry: :cry:

When I was small I would eat anything as long as I was told it was chicken- Chicken chops, chicken fingers, chicken sausages etc

13 Jul 2007

When I was young I lived with my grandparents for a while, whenever I was being impatient and asking about what was for dinner, his standard reply was:
"Hair balls and duck under the table."
:lol2: