Things you were told and believed when you were a child

[kanga]

eating carrots can make you see in the dark!

If you go outside at night the bogey man will get you (quite scary actually!)

 

[trumpetbum]

Santa, The tooth fairy and my granny always warned me that if I didn't behave/go to bed on time Maggie Murphy would come and get me I remember having to have the talk with mil when she tried to introduce 'sanny hairy' who was like Maggie Murphy, some horror to take kids away if they weren't 'good'.

 

[pinkbow]

LOL at some of these...

its not me but my OH told me a funny story his parents did.. basically if he didnt eat all his dinner they said the Nuns would get him and take him away till hes good again... he would then ignore it until his dad would sneak outside and bang on the door HAHAHA omg he said he never ate so fast in his life when he heard it...

sooo funny but what a shame bless him!!!

 

[daniellelk]

hmm

sitting to close to the telly would turn my eye's square.

that if I didn't behave some ment from a children's home would come and get me and take me away....I acctually had a night mare about that once and a lorry came into my room through a wall S) so I told the men i'd go ask my mum if I was ok to go with them! Then told them my dad had said no, so they went.

if I ate my crust my hair would go curly....I have naturally curly hair that I didn't/don't like so I wouldn't eat my crust!!

 

[dizzyisacow]

That a stranger is a big scary man who takes you away in a black bag.
At the swimming pool my mum used to put her hand up a drain thing and push her finger through a hole and all i could see was a finger and she told me it was a man living under there and i believed her!
My brother always said stuff like i was adopted and i believed him

 

[faun]

My parents told me there was a monster called monty who lived in the toilet and if i didn't wash my hands after using the loo that he would come out of the loo and drag me into the sewers!

Also the birds are fathers xmas spies and if i was naughty they would see and tell him and i would get coal in my stocking.

Some of the usual ones as well like eating crusts put hairs on your chest or curly hair depending on if it was me and sis or bro.

 

[LeannieB]

If the ice cream van came round playing music it meant he had nothing left I never understood why he drove around playing music and stopping if he had nothing to sell

oh and eating carrots helps you see in the dark x

Thats so funny about the icecream van!!!

 

[daniellelk]

If the ice cream van came round playing music it meant he had nothing left I never understood why he drove around playing music and stopping if he had nothing to sell

oh and eating carrots helps you see in the dark x

Thats so funny about the icecream van!!!

I used to get told the ice cream van was the fish man! and he was selling fish..

 

[ChloesMummy]

My Dad told me my Mum had cravings for beetroot when she was pregnant with me and thats why have red hair Lol I was sooo not impressed with Mum

Crusts would make my hair go curly, I have frizzy curly hair so that kind of backfired I refused to eat them after that.

 

[Tegans Mama]

My mum used to tell me that if we didn't behave she was going to put us on a bus to the childrens home across from the post office in the village next to ours. She said they ate cabbage and had spearmint coloured socks!! I was terrified
She also used to pretend she was phoning social services (it was really my Nana) and tell them to come and get us! Oh, and she used to phone santa to cancel our christmas if we were naughty
My grandad lives next door to Mum and their gardens are joined, we used to sneak in Grandad's house to use the toilet if someone was in ours. He told us there was a crocodile down there that would bite your bum so we didn't use it anymore
Also, one of those fans on the ceiling, he said it was an upside down helicopter! And there were "Flying Hodgepigs" on the prarie (an old abandoned train track and woods in our village) so we wouldn't play there.

OH's Mum told her there was a bogeyman down in the cellar and if they didn't behave the bogeyman would get them and make them live in the cellar with him! And black (burnt) toast would put hairs on your chest! MIL told BIL if he didn't stop getting his willy out the "todge man" would come and take his willy away. And apparently, chocolate tastes horrible. And if they didn't have a bath, they'd have to live in the dump with Stig of the dump

Aren't Mum's horrible

 

[RainbowDrop_x]

I've just thought of another one looking at the rest of the replies.

Apparently when I was younger the only meat I would eat was chicken because that's all my childhood best friend would eat... So my mum gave me beef,pork,lamb every meat going and told me it was all chicken so that I would eat it and when I questioned why the chicken was different colours it was because some chickens go on holiday and get a tan

 

[Kiddo]

I've just thought of another one looking at the rest of the replies.

Apparently when I was younger the only meat I would eat was chicken because that's all my childhood best friend would eat... So my mum gave me beef,pork,lamb every meat going and told me it was all chicken so that I would eat it and when I questioned why the chicken was different colours it was because some chickens go on holiday and get a tan

That is genius!!

 

[wifey29]

I'm loving these!

For several years my dad had me and my sister believing that the local pet shop was the zoo!

 

[mandy81]

I'm loving these!

For several years my dad had me and my sister believing that the local pet shop was the zoo!

That really made me LOL x

 

[RainbowDrop_x]

I'm loving these!

For several years my dad had me and my sister believing that the local pet shop was the zoo!