The lies your parents told you when you are KID.

16-Mar-23 15:00pm
Mopos
Not that I remember Walter, nothing awful or scary, for which I am grateful and I treated our young kids the same way = no not perfect but no mind games or scary lies. :)
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- 16-Mar-23 15:38pm
  BLACK LIVES MATTER
  The mind games and scary lies - toughen me up for life as a minority in the most corrupt, sexist, and racist country on the planet (good old USA).
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- 16-Mar-23 15:46pm
  MoposBLACK LIVES MATTER
  I hear you Walter.
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16-Mar-23 10:17am
Liane H
I can't honestly recall any except if we swallowed our chewing gum all our insides would stick together. . Tho I did hear of a poor girl who's parents told her whenever she heard Mr whippy coming down the streets with the music playing from his icecream van, it meant he had run out of icecream .. now that one's Pure evilness ! Lol
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- 16-Mar-23 11:36am
  BLACK LIVES MATTER
  My parents have an ice-cream-maker. I have an ongoing illicit love affair with the ice-cream maker till I became a runaway at an earlier age - missed the ice-cream-maker - never missed my parents (never saw my parents ever again) - lol!
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- 16-Mar-23 14:45pm
  Liane H BLACK LIVES MATTER
  I've always wanted a supreme icecream making machine like the one I used to use in the fully fitted out french restaurant I worked in... it was amazing, just chucked everything in and pressed churn et voila! Unfortunately I don't have a mini fortune to spend on one ! Your parent's one must have been a rarity and a delight back in those days, and am guessing although perhaps they are now passed at least u didn't get spun any more twisted childhood lies when you ran away Walter :)
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- 16-Mar-23 15:34pm
  BLACK LIVES MATTERLiane H
  I became a runaway when I was 13 (after I finish the 8th grade) - it was time for me to move on (I was a problem child in the Deep South - when Colored and White Signs were posted - if I have stay, I would not be here - now). I never saw my parents or my siblings ever again!Edited 16-Mar-23 15:49pm
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- 16-Mar-23 16:17pm
  Liane H BLACK LIVES MATTER
  Yeah !I have seen that through some of your other posts, sure does suck. You were obviously strong enough to do it and make it .. Wonder if your siblings ever did the same hey? Your parents sounded like they gave u no other options but I'm really astounded as most of us are how anyone that young survives out on the streets like that ,and so glad for you now those times,especially are in the past though never forgotten I expect..
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16-Mar-23 10:14am
Lily M 583844
Parents used to say if we didn't behave and go to bed early Santa wouldn't bring presents for Christmas. I didn't believe all that Santa crap, so I would notice at a young age about 5 years that parents would buy presents and hide them. Mom would write in a special book and hide it in the cabinet. So one day when there was no one around I went into special cabinet and found the book she would write in and found lists of previous years and current year listing what gifts each person in family and relatives would get for Christmas and birthdays. So right then I knew Santa wasn't real and was fake. That's when I went to kindergarten school and told all the kids in my class and others at recess that there was no Santa Claus and that all there parents had been lying to them and they buy them the gifts. Boy, that didn't sit well with the teachers, parents, and principle of the school. They called my mom into a conference telling them what happened and that the parents demanded I apologize saying Santa was real to the students. I didn't see what was wrong, so I told my mom I'm not apologizing because I told the truth so my mom said I didn't have to and she stuck by my decision even if it made the school and parents mad. Why should I lie about something that isn't true just to make grown ups happy? Why should I be punished for telling the truth? To me as a kid, I thought grown-ups are weird. It made no sense to me at all. Edited 16-Mar-23 10:17am
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16-Mar-23 09:54am
Tom S Qld
Don't make that face. If the wind changes you will stay like that. - Is an expression that adults use to warn children about making silly faces. They say that if the wind changes directions your face will be stuck with that expression forever.Edited 16-Mar-23 09:55am
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15-Mar-23 20:41pm
mary c
Mum would threaten to send us to boarding school or to the home for Orphan children- usually when i couldn't finish my food. I would never say such mean things to my daughter. Though i am sure i have traumatized her in other ways! :(
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15-Mar-23 08:43am
allin
dam Walter, that is some crap right there my friend, i do feel for you bro, i left home at 16, went back one day when i turned 17 so she could sign my papers to join the Army,,, family can suck my friend,, on another more jovial note, did she tell you you would go blind with self love, and you told her no, i'll stop when i just need glasses,, sorry Walter, didn't mean to make little of your poll, great poll, but i think you needed the smile,,, 😁
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- 15-Mar-23 08:57am
  BLACK LIVES MATTER
  I left home when I finish the eighth grade and I NEVER went back home. Furthermore, I legally changed my name! Did not want anyone in my family for any reason to be able to EVER locate me!Edited 17-Mar-23 17:19pm
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- 15-Mar-23 13:08pm
  allinBLACK LIVES MATTER
  that's some harsh growing up, specially from that age Walter, whatever the environment, whether it be urban or wild, it becomes your teacher, and if you learn good you live through school, and find the bad, as well as good in most people for it,, here's to 1/1/24, that we both make it,,
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- 15-Mar-23 14:32pm
  BLACK LIVES MATTERallin
  I don't think I will make it to - 01/01/24 (the odds are against me - however, I have beaten the odds more than once in my lifetime - lol) - still - I hope you DO (01/01/2024!)Edited 15-Mar-23 14:39pm
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15-Mar-23 00:27am
Linda C
Yeah it must have been the norm back then to scare kids. Think about it. Into our rooms late at night came Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Bogey Man, the Sandman (he put you to sleep), the Tooth Fairy and the list went on. It was like rush hour sometimes. I still feel uncomfortable if my bedroom is too dark.
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14-Mar-23 13:56pm
boy blunder
i can only remember my mum saying never take your troubles to bed,well i am 60 and i am still doing that
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14-Mar-23 02:11am
Robert F 1161011
I first remember hearing this from my mother when I was about 4 years old while she was cutting my hair. She said "this is where the donkey kicked you". She was talking about my birthmark, a pure white patch of hair in the back of my head near the top. It was completely hidden by other hair which was blonde, so only people who cut my hair ever saw it. Every time a barber noticed it, I would tell them that that's where I got kicked by a donkey. It wasn't until I was into my 30s, after pressing mum for the donkey details, that she revealed it was a joke, and she never realized that I'd taken her seriously.Edited 14-Mar-23 02:15am
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	The lies your parents told you when you are KID.
	BLACK LIVES MATTER	14-Mar-23 12:03 am
	My mother liked playing mind games with me and she had a vicious sense of humor: If I don't learn how to read - my voice would disappear. When I came down with strep throat - it freaked the f... out of me! The best untrue fact my mom every told me: That drag racers were two men running down the street in women's clothes. The scariest lie my mother ever told me was: If I wander off (when I was a very young kid) - the 'boogie man' not the 'bogey man' would kill me and turn me into a dancefloor. I did not go 'dancing' till late in my life.