What were you told growing up that were just pure lies!

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Talking about this today with a friend, apart from the obvious Santa/Easter bunny/tooth fairy.

I was that chewing gum (as in the long flat ones back in the 90s) were made of cob webs. And if you ever swallowed gum it would stay inside for 7 years. 😂

That bread crusts would make your hair curly.

Has anyone else heard these or have any random things they were told as a child?!

That if you unscrew your belly button your bum will fall off.

My Mum had all sorts of superstitions so we had lots of throwing salt/(pretend) spitting over our left shoulders to catch the devil in his eyes.

I used to tell my lot that milk was ‘white milkshake’ so I’m the same

one day they’ll find this thread and moan about how I lied…

My mum insisted that if I told a lie my eyes changed colour. When I was a child I really believed this so it must have been really easy for my mother to know if I was telling lies. Then I'd have a smack for the naughty deed and a smack for telling a lie!

I read that twice and laughed both times!

I was told this too and very much believed this happened - our neighbor had a paralysed face on one side and when I asked what happened my Dad said it was the wind. It's only as an adult I looked back and realised she had had a stroke. Also mortified that my Dad said this!

My 4 year old believes this

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3097387/Girl-5-huge-HAIRBALL-removed-stomach-Rapunzel-syndrome.html

"If you just work hard you'll always be ok."

Aged about 7, I was told that the green medicine I was being given was made out of elephant's snot and that they got the elephants to sneeze into the bottles.

My late mother was absolutely convinced that we would catch a cold by getting cold, or going out with wet hair.

Nothing about a virus, even about getting cold would allow a virus to take hold.

It's probably best that she didn't live to see covid.

Chewing gum- 7 years
Illegal for car lights to be on - only figured that one recently!
Veg makes your Hair curly
Carrots - see in the dark.

That mother's have eyes in the back of their heads ( true ) I once looked for the eyes in the back of my mum's head when I was small.
She told me that I wouldn't be able to see them because they hide behind her hair.
That if I looked down the grate on the roadside outside our home, I might see my grandfather, who was a miner.
I spent bloody hours laid on that cold pavement peering down a grate. The neighbours must have thought I was bonkers!!

That it was possible to dig to Australia, said to me and my brothers at 6 or 7 when my parents wanted to dismantle a rockery bed. We did most of the work for them...

At the beach my dad use to tell us to keep digging with our spades and we’d reach Australia, whilst he sat and read his paper obviously.

Silly bollocks here used to dig for hours! 🤣🤣

In my defence, I must’ve only been about 6 or 7.

@Handyweatherstation if your story was about the beach I would think you were my sister!

@danni0509 now I'm wondering how many of us were told we could dig to Australia! We also spent hours digging and on more than one occasion.

That you could eat mud pies. I tried this and it was one of the greatest disappointments in my young life. I thought it would be like chocolate cream and was very careful to mix the soil and water to the right pudding-like consistency, but the result was just bland and gritty. Such a let down.

The things my dad told me -

That there was a giraffe in the garden which had always moved just out of view by the time I got to the window.

That he got up early for a bath because a fly was teaching him to walk on the ceiling.

That the gurgling sound the water made running down the plug hole was a dragon that didn't like having water poured on its head.

I believed all of it.

That was a myth put about in WWII to fool the Germans into believing that our pilots had exceptionally good eyesight due to eating lots of carrots, which was helping them to spot enemy aircraft and ships. We didn't want the Germans to find out that we had invented radar!!

If I studied hard I could do anything I wanted..but then added..

...but not until you are older, not on your own, you can't travel, it's dangerous.

With no money? To study what? No, university isn't an option get a job. Careers? Don't be ridiculous, most people have jobs not Careers.

Be careful you will fall, drop it..clumsy

Dilly daydream...what do you want to do that for..

That freckles disappear when you become an adult. Very disappointed in this one!

Swallowing chewing gum will kill you!