Parenting Fibs

[Tendarian]

I was raised catholic and made to go to church til i was confirmed. At one point when i was talking in church my parents told me that when they rang the bells that that meant for me to be quiet and i totally believed that. In fact i believed it so much that i was always mad and frustrated that they rang the bells twice cause i would always be quiet after the first ringing. Now that i look back on it,its funny that i believed that.

Anyway i was just wondering if anyone else had stories of the lies their parents told them to behave or make them act in a certain way or anything of the like.

[Bestatte]

Mom told me and the whole neighborhood I was allergic to chocolate, and to cats.

I wasn't. She just didn't want to deal with me getting melted chocolate on my clothes, and she had an allergy to cats (which she conveniently overcame when I moved back home after college and brought my 2 cats with me).

[HarmNone]

My mother told me that if I told a lie my nose would grow, just like Pinnochio. Of course, whenever I did tell a lie, everyone knew it because I was constantly touching my nose. :D

HarmNone

[IcyPoison]

I grew up jehovahs witness... I was told pretty much every year that Armageddon was coming and we were all going to die on new years.

[theotherjohn]

Originally posted by IcyPoison
I grew up jehovahs witness... I was told pretty much every year that Armageddon was coming and we were all going to die on new years.

How do you know that is a lie? perhaps all the people going to heaven did die

[Kurili]

You have a very crafty mother, HarmNone. To make you admit your fibs so well. I admire her.

Acolyte Kurili

[Faellyn]

My grandmother told me that my grandfather (and everyone else who had died) was watching me from heaven and knew EVERYTHING I did. That creeped me out when I was going to the bathroom or picking my nose or whatever and ruined my sense of privacy for years before I outgrew the notion.

[Betheny]

If you swallow gum, it'll plug up your bumhole.

They grow spaghetti in spaghetti fields out by the Mpls/St. Paul International Airport (we used to drive by there all the time.)

Inside your stomach, there's a chest of drawers, and when you eat something one of the drawers will open and stow the food away. This is why you can't mix food up.

My grandpa was mean to me!

[Back]

Once my mom was driving me somewhere. I was like 4 or 5. I asked if it was Sesame St. She said yes. Turned out it was a babysitter. :(

[Savanae]

My parents told us that if we lied our tongues would turn black. Well none of us belived it until my baby sister at the age of ten woke up went to brush her teeth and her mouth was all black from some fungus or something. She ratted us all out for everything we ever did because my mom told her the next thing to happen would be it falling out if she didn't come clean.

[DCSL]

My mother tried to be as straight with me as possible. She never ever lied about anything other than her own personal life which only effected her, and even there, I've only caught her in two lies my entire life. Sometimes this was a little harsh... telling a five year old the total and complete truth about whatever they ask will really cure them of the "Why?" stage quickly!

But! I was staying over at my friend's place when I was six and his mother told us that potatoes grow in your ears if you don't clean them out regularly. My mother told me this was ridiculous, later, and she couldn't believe I took it seriously... she got pissed with the other mother about lying to her daughter, heh.

[Back]

Oh, by the way, its true if you swallow gum it stays in your stomach for months... it collects all the undigestibles also. Like hair and fingernails.

[Faellyn]

No, gum comes out in 16-48 hours with everything else, don't believe me? Swallow a big wad of pink or green gum and watch the bowl for a day or so.....

My folks were pretty straight with me and my brother too, except when it came to Santa Clause. About the time I was sure there was no such thing (and my brother was skeptical too, we were 10 and 6). We moved into a house with a fireplace, and there were sooty bootprints all over the house Christmas morning. It was hard not to believe int he face of such evidence, and I took a lot of crap in school....