Things your parents lied to you about: A lie is a lie; growing up can be chalked up to just a bunch of lessons we have to learn in order to be functioning members of society, and one of those lessons happens to be that our parents lied to us a lot, mostly to protect us. From telling tales of Santa Claus and the boogeyman, to the half truth that our teeth would fall out if we didn’t brush and floss them every night. However, because all this is generally done out of love and protection for their little ones, they can get somewhat of a pass. More..
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As a parent you must have an arsenal of tricks in order to deal with your curiously touchy children and over the years parents have found that a little white lie here and there never hurt anyone. These lies were mostly used to keep us out of trouble, keeping us from hurting ourselves or others and even from being fearful of things that life will throw our way. It is as if parents around the world united to make up the lies that have become universal answers to all the basic questions that your kids are bound to ask. These lies are so common to us that they quickly became comical and when we grow up, we unconsciously used those same lies on our own kids that we once cursed our own parents for.
How many of these lies did your parents use on you? And how old were you when you actually stopped believing them? Read the list and refresh your memory on some of the childhood non-truths that mommy and daddy told you.
15. Drinking Coffee Will Stunt Your Growth
Mommy and daddy would tell us that something with such a sweet, sweet taste would stunt our growth and then turn around and drink it right in front of this. This lie was one of the more believable ones especially if you had a short parent who used themselves as an example. Coffee actually has nothing to do with your height but when you’re a parent and your kid wants to drink coffee, you have to come up with a good reason to say no or you get bombarded with “why?”. Well now that we are grown up, we can drink it all we want.
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