To ask what your parents told you when you were younger...

[Pinkerbells]

That you only found out wasn't true when you were an adult? (Light hearted)

My mum always insisted that if you are cherries and have a drink with it, it could kill you. Took me a looooong time to risk that one, and she was horrified when I did, even more so when I survived 😁

I read that the carrots thing was made up in WWII so we could keep our radar system a secret from the Nazis.

Didn’t trick them forever, but people still believe it.

It took me years to find out I wasn’t really born in a field.

@Sparkle567 that last one is beyond fucked up!

My brother tells my daughter that broccoli comes from broccoli trees that grow in Wales only, his wife is welsh and she also tells her this 😂

Hellvelyn

That's brilliant! I'm terrified of escalators, not so much going up, but I can't go on any escalator going down.

I think it's Final Destinstion 5, but watch that and you'll see some poor soul being sucked in!

I also thought it was illegal to drive with the light on.

The coal to school thing doesn't sound too far fetched depending on how old your parents are RuggerHug , DGM was in primary during WW2 and in winter they all had to bring in a bit of wood each for the fire.

My dad convinced me Tiger Woods was my cousin and I often boasted about it at school well into my teens like an absolute dick.

@Chocolatemice. I've heard that as well. I think it might have been in a horrible histories book.

I also thought the same about sheep legs. I was teased mercilessly about it!

My mother said if I didn't stop playing with the dog and get some human friends, I'd grow a tail.

This did not dissuade me; quite the reverse.

@Tigger03
Yes all of them 😂

Due to a recurring nightmare my Mum told me ants couldn't climb stairs because their legs were too short.

It was a wartime memoire book by a lady who was in the WAAF.