Horror Stories Your Parent's Used To Help Keep You Safe

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I was just thinking about this yesterday. On a really long drive back from London (5 and a half hours no less - a big thank you to the lorry drivers who drove so close to the lorry in front they banged into it and caused the tailbacks on the M1 and M25....).

DD2 kept taking her straps off in her carseat, and I kept begging her to put them back on again with a tale about how the police would take me to prison if they saw her. It worked, but made me feel a bit guilty that I had to worry her like that to get it done. My mum and dad wouldn't have thought twice about scaring the bejesus out of me to get me to do/not do something.

My dh had an operation a few years ago which has left a huge scar on his head. We're planning on telling the dd's that the ice cream man did it and whenever they hear the chimes they must run like the wind! I wanted to tell them that mil did it because Daddy wouldn't go to bed when his Mummy asked him to but we felt that was a little harsh.

when we came in from school and asked where mum was my dad said she had run off with a black man, this did worry us slightly as she was always talking to a handsome pakistni man accross the road.

Pakistani actually

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mum and dad used to stop outside this really creepy old house in Dundee on the way to Grandmas and told us it was the bad boys and girls home and if we didnt behave thats where we would live

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i still kind of believe them. this was in the 70's so it could have been true

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i tell dds that the policeman will give mummy into trouble if they dotn keep their seatbelts on in the car, or if they dotn sit up straight
i also say the bus driver will phne the police if they dont behave on the bus
we went to a local fun day and there were police there with police dogs - dd2 (3) started screaming - she was terrified mummy would get taken away

My sister (she likes her naps) told me that if you wake people up when they're dreaming they'll go mad and kill you. I believed it for years!

My mum used to tell me if I wrote on my hand in pen I would get ink poisoning.
Those Public Info Ads used to scare the hell out of me - esp the one where the boy gets his frisbee caught in the power lines and gots to fetch it
There was also a cartoon one where a mum carrying shopping gets run over by a car - I still remember the oranges rolling down the hill ....

Er... isn't the chilblain one actually true?

I remember being told that if I wandered off near the docks on my own white slave traders would take me away to South America. I don't use that one on my children because: a) they're boys
b) we don't live near docks.

The ol' watching too much TV makes you get square eyes, I really believed that one for ages. A friends mum told me a story of a girl who went up an escalator with a teddy bear, and it got sucked in, then she got sucked in - I still don't hold the rail when going up them! I also jump off the end rather sharpish Dunno how that made me safe though, just scared me! Oh, and kissing made you pregnant. A friend kissed me on the cheek when I was about 8, and I was paranoid for a year or so I was having a baby

Well, you're only likely to get chilblains at all if you are a person predisposed to them. And even those who are don't normally get them on their hands (although it is possible... also on the nose, apparently [ouch emoticon]). If you were predisposed to getting them and to getting them on your hands then putting cold hands into hot water could set them off, but it's hardly a sensible basis for a whole system of child-worrying if said child has never shown the least tendency towards them.

Gosh, lemonaid, I didn't realise there were people out there who didn't get chilblains .

I'm starting to realise something about my personality that I never could put my finger on before, why I'm such a worrier, never settle my mind, my Ma and Pa told me all of these! The only other one I can think of at the moment is/; if you suck your hair you'll get a big hairball in your chest, (and no doubt die)

On a related note, did anyone else have a copy of Struelpeter (sp?) as a child? My parents didn't need to tell me not to do things, as this book of little stories was quite specific enough on what not to do, for example Little Johnny Head in Air didn't look where he was going and fell into a pond and drowned, Little Johnny Suckathumb got his thumbs cut off by the big scissor man when he didn't stop sucking his thumb, another little girl didn't eat her dinner for a few days and died of starvation. Lovely moral tales!

Am sure there were lots more in this vein too, but I can't remember any more. Am sure the book can't be as bad as I remember though - does anyone else remember it?

If you pee in the spa pool (it was the 70s) the water will turn blue and it would dye your legs blue.

That wasn't so much to keep us safe though