What lies did your parents tell you?

didn’t we just have this question? am I wrong

Mine did that one too.

Also, in addition to the standard Santa Clause / Tooth Fairy / Easter Bunny lies, my parents told me that they knew when I was faking being asleep because whenever I was really asleep, I always stuck one of my legs in the air. So of course, from then on, whenever I faked being asleep, I stuck my leg in the air. I was about 20 years old before I figured it out….

@MrItty You win.

I grew up on a farm and had a pet cow I named Taxi. That was my favorite television show. So one day I get home from school and Taxi is missing. So my parents explained where hamburgers came from. But the told me they traded the cow and I wasn’t eating my friend.

When I was about 20 I found out the truth. They didn’t trade. I ate my pet. I’m 31 now and still really pissed off about it.

When we were small, no. 3 brother kicked no. 2 brother. The commotion brought my father outside; he made no. 3 sit on a chair with the offending limb resting on another chair. Then he told no. 2 to bring a saw, which he did. For several seconds Daddy held the saw in one hand, no. 3’s leg in the other, as if deciding where to cut. Eventually no. 2 could not stand the suspense any more, and began sobbing, “Don’t do it, Daddy! don’t do it!”

All of them.

@johnpowell Yeash.

But look at it this way; what better way to honor your pet than to have it become part of you?

Not my parents but my grandma used to dress up in a tutu with wings and go into our rooms at night when we lost a tooth and say she was the tooth fairy.

But it is what they don’t tell you that really matters.

My parents told me only people who love each other have sex and can make babies.

“This is going to hurt me more than it’s going to hurt you.”

That if I stood up straight, I would grow taller.

Took me a little bit to figure out that I wouldn’t grow taller, I would just appear taller.

when i was little my dad had a video he used to show me part of which had lots of swearing in it but he thought i would like the characters one day i suddenly shouted a swear word so the next day it wasnt there. My dad told me i broke it when i chucked it down to the ground the day before but i must not remember it ( i loved that show) :(

“Everything is gonna be ok.”

I was found in the trash can!

When my sister and I were young, we’d help my dad with the gardening. Occasionally, he’d slice through an earthworm while he was shoveling. We’d be saddened and concerned when we saw the earthworm pieces writhing around. Our dad reassured us by telling us that each piece grew into a new earthworm. It must have seemed like a harmless enough fib, but, unbeknownst to my dad, my sister decided that she would “make worms.” She’d go out into our garden with scissors and cut up the earthworms, thinking that she was helping the worms and the soil; in reality she was a mass earthworm murderer.

She still tears up to this day whenever she thinks about what she did.

@phoenyx My parents told me this too, and I only realized right this second that of course they don’t regenerate into new worms.

They also told me it was illegal to kill praying mantis, was this a lie too??

The praying mantis thing is false, but that does not mean your parents technically lied, because they probably believed it also. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/mantis2.asp

I can’t think of a lie my parents told. There must of have been some fibs of some sort I would guess??

My parents have never told me lies. Well, they did play the Santa game while we were growing up, but I can’t ever remember them actively lying to me about Santa as I don’t think I ever asked them explicitly about it.

My dad used to say that when he and my mom went on vacation, he was gonna have us kids stay in the local childrens jail. His friend ran it.

Many years ago, on my way to Jamaica by air, there was an obstreperous lad, about 8 years old, aboard. He would not sit still. He ran up and down the gangway, annoyed the other passengers and his mother could not control him. Eventually one of the stewardesses took him aside and sat him down, and, as it happened, right opposite to where I was. Then she told him, very quietly and without inflection, that if he did not sit still, he would be dropped overboard. He behaved like an angel thereafter.