The silly things that we are told as chidren!

I was out in the garden, working on our new chicken run and i over heard our neighbour telling her kids that its a cage for naughty children and if they misbehave they will get locked in there! I went along with it and the kids swallowed it whole!

It made me think about what nonsense we were told (and then believe) as kids by adults.

My parents made me believe that they were over 100 years old (i was only 3) which led to much embarassment for me at preschool when i mentioned it!

So, what silly things were you told when you were a kid?

my granddad once told me that sausages were pigs willy's. i believed that until i watched the farm. when rebecca loo's hand to wank off that pig. lol

my mum (thistle) once told me she could turn invisible. believed that one for ages.

some one once told me that if you swallowed chewing gum it would wrap around your heart and it would explode. never swallowed chewing gum again after that.

nice idea star. very funny memories coming back

I was told that you can't be thirsty and have to pee at the same time, making me think I was some sort of odd mutant. (Well, I am, but that's besides the point...)

Most of the f'ed-up stuff I thought as a kid was my own doing.

For example, the first airplane flight I can remember I recall that my mother pointed out the wings. I thought she was talking about the rivets (I was like 3, still figuring out the whole language thing). So at some point I figured out that wings were, in fact, big things that make planes fly and that rivets held them together.

But in general my parents didn't believe in deceiving me, other than the standard stuff that we all tell kids (Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, etc.).

This gives me an idea for another thread...

When I was little my older brother told me that spiders have a special sharp pointy bit on their bum, and if you let a spider crawl all the way round your wrist then your hand would drop off.

I believed every word of it.
I held a turantula for the first time at a school fair when I was 7 or 8. It sat on my hand for a while... and then crawled up where it's bum was level with my wrist.
Yeah, I freaked out just a tiny bit and screamed the place down!

Oh, and one that made me laugh...

My friends dad told her younger brother that his bum was broken, because it had a crack down the middle of it.
The poor kid believed it.

its kinda random and only make sence to anybody whos ever visited bristol
In bristol the council house has two identical unicorns on the top of it and as a child my aunty told me that ever christmas they took them down and swapped them round
Wasnt till years later i relised they were identical i spent ages trying to tell whcih was which and work out when they swapped them casue they always just looked the same to me

Still think the things kids come up with themselves are jsut as funny

today on the train back from Brighton squarexedge was (trying) to balance a contact ball on her head. The woman next to us said to her 3 year old girl "Ooohh look at that strange lady"

*muchos toddler gigglage*

I remember my mums old boss telling me there were people living behind this huge mantle peice thing. Everytime I went to mums work I had a conversation with the person behind there. But it was really my mums boss making the voices

i had a friend who told me their toenail came off so they eat it cos they thought it wud grow bac quicker
this was when they were 16 aswell which is quite worrying

Hahaha.
"Careful you dont make nasty faces, the wind will cahnge and you'll be stuck like that" Never really believed that one though.

I managed to convince my sister that potato chips grow in the ground and come out packaged already!

My grandfather used to call our house and talk to my mum and then talk to me and my sister, he would always tell us what we were wearing, how our hair was and what we had done in the last half hour or so. My sister and i would always be amazed and ask him how he did it. He would tell us that he could see us thru the phone, or he had a magic elf on loan from santa. I believed him for sooooo many years. He was great at making people laugh and smile, i miss him.

my mum used to say the wind changing thing, but that was more of a laugh than anything. I also remember being told not to play with your belly button as it might come unstuck and let all your guts out, at 5 i beleived it.

Crusts make your hair curly
Carrots make you see in the dark..(war propaganda)
Mothers have eyes in the back of their heads
Running around nekkid will make you catch a cold
Goose will get boys willies if they are nekkid

I cant belive I have forgotten them all.
Love that wind change one though.

the carrots thing was because the allied forces had radar, but were saying that their pilots were eating lots of carrots and thats why they could see the enemy.

if you eat the seeds of a fruit, like an apple or orange, a tree will grow in stomach and you will DIE! Earwigs (little insects like centipedes) will go straight for your ear and attack your brain and make you crazy, then you DIE! if you lost a tooth without giving it to the toothfairy then she would come back and take ALL your teeth out, then you couldnt eat and you would DIE! one year, i had been soooo naughty that i KILLED santa!!
i was one of the most paranoid little kids you could imagine.
...i hate my older brother and sister...

My parents always told me if I was bad they would kill the mascot for whatever holiday was the closest.

Don't pick your nose, it will cave in...

With the Crusts making your hair curley, I used to believe that, so never ate my crusts... I HATED my curley hair, lol

Hmm, shall have to ask mum what else she told us when we were kids... mostly it was my brother telling me rubbish lol

i love the episode of Rugrats where Chucky eats a watermelon seed then worries that it will grow.

When i was little my parents told me there was a santa claus. Tooth fairy . God. Easter bunny.

Lies.... all lies.... if i ever have kids they arent going to be lied to like that

Tooth fairy and Santa Claus are in essence lies I agree. But if the next morning money appears in a jar and presents then they do exist, in the childs mind. It becomes hard in a society that embraces a myth. God is a harder one to deal with. God does exist for some people and that the way I deal with it. Blah blah believes in God.
It is really hard never to lie to your kids. Never to tell a white lie or lie by omission.

I just said pick up all those toys or they go in the bin. Will I throw away hundreds of dollars of toys into the bin just because the boys emptied a whole toy box looking for a toy yet again.

"don't even think about it, because I'll have either done it or thought of it first"