Totally untrue things you were told as a young child ...

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As a young child I rather wasn't exposed to lies, the only exceptions were the existence of Santa Claus and that storks brought babies but as for this last statement, when I was told it, I was so young that my memory didn't preserve it and I know that I was treated to this obvious lie only because mom told me that she had said this to me when I was little and asked about where babies came from. Anyway, this lie couldn't linger too long in the nooks of my mind for I was raised in a village and saw many farm animals mating. Ah, one more I just recalled (and which I don't remember either although I was about 6, I wasn't a toddler anymore when I was told this so I should remember and that's strange that I didn't): that my father was a sailor and that's why he was absent (he in fact was just an ordinary bus driver and abandoned us when mother was pregnant).

That's all about the time when I was a young child for you asked about our early childhood - when we are talking about my later childhood, mom was always sincere with me when it comes to sharing knowledge on stuff with me. She did, though, use to tell me that school marks were a matter of great importance (well, maybe she didn't directly tell me this but she believed in this as much as Christians believe in the Bible and I knew it even without her telling me this) and in fact they aren't - not to this extent, at least. I will never forget how angry with me she was when once, as a first grader, I forgot about one homework and got a 1 - the lowest mark which in our system of education means you failed, when the teacher asked me about this. She forced me to spend the whole evening on doing this dumb exercise, as if it was going to help in any way, erasing that 1. And then I didn't have bad marks at all which could explain her anger - it wasn't like that I got a 1 once more because it was the first or second one in my life. Once, when I was in 4th or 5th grade and was absent at school for some time due to my illness, afterwards she was asking me questions on some things from my biology class the material of which I was preparing at home for an upcoming test because I was absent when the other students were discussing in in biology class. One unit was on parasites living in human digestive system and when mom asked me for the definition of a parasite, I described them as "such small white worms". "What small white worms??! !" - she yelled, really angry. She was expecting the textbook definition taught to myself by heart and not my guessing as for what way of describing them was the best. Such small school things are ones I am not going to forgive her.

Yep, the layers of skin distort their appearance.

Santa Clause and also that we get a lump of coal if we aren't good and he won't come if we are sick or not in bed.
Tooth Fairy
Easter Bunny and also he won't come to our house if we aren't in bed.


I was also told that my clothes will shrink in the dryer and turn into Barbie clothes if they stay in there too long.

Another time mom told me when I was six that if you don't wipe drips off of syrup bottles, you get a hefflelump and they are so big they break your house.

When I was six, we were coming back from Montana and we were going through the Columbia River George and we noticed these lights on the cliff, mom said it was the space ship from Star Strek.

When I was a kid, mom always threatened to dump us off on the side of the road if we don't behave and she also used to say she leave us behind if we aren't good and also told me if I want to stay at someone's house such as if I want to stay at my nanny's if I don't stop.

Mom also used to threaten to throw our toys away if we don't pick them up.

When I was eight we went to this pumpkin patch in Oregon City and we were walking through the forest and mom told us about witches in there as she was reading the signs in the forest. She told me if I stick my finger in this tree stump, the little witch that lives in there will cut off my finger and cook it in her cauldron and eat it.

I was also told that if you pee in the pool, the water can turn color because they can have some chemical in there that turns color when pee hits it so they know someone has peed in there.

Last edited by League_Girl on 05 Jul 2011, 1:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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i called that bluff once. Bad idea.

I actually wish that were true... I don't like using public pools because of that...

on a similar note, i was warned against foul language with the threat of washing my mouth out with soap & water.. mama wasn't kidding

Thia is kind of funny in a way.

There are parents that would do that.

How strange. I went there too. Wasn't in the South East though.

Teachers have eyes in the back of their heads

People swallow spiders at least 7 times a year in their sleep

Halley's Comet only comes back if you a good person

You will live forever if you eat your vegetables

The Easter bunny works with Santa Claus

I would.

I HATE that one!

Haha, you will live longer though.

Blood cells are on a scale which goes roughly like this:

Very bright red
Darker red
Maroon
Dark purple
Dark blue
Black

This is representative of the quantity of oxygen in those cells, with a healthy level of oxygen for your body being the bright red kind. As you run low on oxygen, the cells go down the spectrum.

As a visible example, if you watch Caucasian athletes who are exerting themselves, to the point that their muscles don't have enough oxygen, then you will see their skin go reddish. This is because the darker shades of red and maroon are more visible through their light coloured skin.

Another visible example is anyone with poor circulation will progressively get darker and darker. Often people with poor circulation to their legs will have dark blue patches.

Or the old experiment kids used to do (at least I did), of tying an elastic around a finger as a tourniquet, turning it until the blood-flow is cut off, the finger going through the spectrum toward black.

My blood is blue.

My grandmother used to say she was going to take me to the children's home. My mother told me that the horse could say my name, then she said my name in a whinny, and I seriously believed it was the horse. My father said he could do magic. He played sleight of hand tricks on me all the time and I thought they were real.

I must have been told about things like Santa, the tooth fairy, *cough* and Jesus at some point, but I don't remember ever believing in any of these things to begin with. I remember asking my mother if Santa was real, already knowing the answer, and her bluntly saying 'No'.

Only things I remember being told;
Bread crusts make your hair curly - mother (I ate sooo many crusts hoping this was true!).
Men have extra ribs than women - headmaster in primary school.
I've been told both that the heart is in the centre of the body and that it's to the left.