Sounds worse than I mean!

Was there any ever phrases that you're parents told you that might have been a little while lie?

For example my dad had to get up at 5:30am to get ready for work and I'd want to hang out with him when he would have his coffee and if I got up early enough I'd get a little mug of it with lots of milk and sugar. If I didn't get up early enough and he had already had a couple of cups he would tell me that the bottom of the coffee in the pot was just the coffee grounds and not good for drinking. At 8 or so he didn't think I should be drinking it coffee.

Its not my parent, but close enough...my grandfather used to try to help me stop biting my nails by telling me that if I bit them off and swallowed them that they'd get stuck on my heart on the way down to my stomach!

xD
I don't have anything that awesome.
I have the usual Santa Claus (YES, he is a lie to me!... after I saw my dad eat the cookies) and the tooth fairy. And there's also "don't swallow watermelon seeds or you'll grow a watermelon inside you".
Can't remember more.
xD

My dad told me I was adopted once..but my sister wasn't.
We're twins.

Yeah, our magical creatures of childhood are always a little bit of a let down to know they weren't real. =(

And at least its funny because you have a twin. lol I tried to convince my little brother he was adopted once when we were younger, XD

Platypuses are real ;D
That's my magical creature.
<3

Yeah, I know my dad fails.
He told me when I was 6..so I kinda believed it until my sister reminded me.

My Mother told me that the 'S word' was 'Shut up', and that the 'F word' was 'Freak'. When I found out what those words actually were, I ran home and told me Mom that she was a liar! I must have been around 8 or so.

All I can really think of, are Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. OHOHOH and the Easter Bunny. 8D

Uhm. Yeah. I stopped believing in them all, in like, first or second grade. :P

My parents said that Santa, the Easter Bunny, and tooth fairy were real. I have always been a skeptic. When I was five, I asked my mom why a toy has a Mattel label on the bottom if Santa's elves make the toys in his workshop. My mom told me that Santa can not rely on the elves workshop for everything and buys his presents at Toys R' Us. I accepted this answer.
When I was eight, I really started to question Santa's existence. In order to confirm what I already knew, I didn't tell my parents what I wanted. I was disappointed that year, but I learned that Santa does not exist. Even after confirmation, my parents would not admit Santa is not real. It was not until I was much older that my mom told me the truth. My parents were afraid that if I knew the presents were from them that I would tell my little sister. They wanted her to believe in Santa until was at least eight.

We once had a rottweiler named "Rocko" when me and my brothers were young. Rocko was very cute, but as he grew older he also grew very vicious...even to the point of biting my grandpa and mom. Before that actually happened we did try dog lessons, but they didn't work.....and we didn't know about dog rehabilitation then. So when it got that bad my parents said that we had to give away Rocko to a farmer where he would have all the fields to run around and be happy......Lies. I mean, I know it was for our protection, and that our feelings wouldn't be hurt, but still.

Years later, Mom and I are reading the paper and she points out that "Hey, that's the vet we had to take Rocko to".
I'm all "What for?".
"When we had to put Rocko to sleep".
"WHAT?! D8"
Yeah.....I cried.
My older brother still believes Rocko was given to a new owner.....I don't have the heart to tell him</3

My parents told me.......

I really don't remember anymore. They died when I was kindof young. :(

In the Grocery Isle with mom looking at "feminine" products.
"Mommy! Mommy! what are those"
I asked eagerly while pointing at a box of maxi pads that my mom took and place in the kart.
My mom replied,"Those are special napkins dear."

My parents told me that they had both smoked when they were younger and while my mom had been able to quit, my dad hadn't. I figured out by myself that my dad wasn't exactly smoking just cigarettes because the smell is... quite different. While just this weekend I found out through my sister in law that my mom hadn't just smoked cigarettes before quitting, she'd done Angel Dust.
Now, she did stop before having kids, but all the same, I think I've lost all respect for them. They were apparently huge druggies before deciding to have kids and didn't even have the balls to tell me. I'm freaking 20, and knowing such things only makes me not want to do that even more because there is no way I ever want to end up like them.

... I suppose that's more of a half truth than a little white lie though.

Originally Posted by Crazykits

In the Grocery Isle with mom looking at "feminine" products.
"Mommy! Mommy! what are those"
I asked eagerly while pointing at a box of maxi pads that my mom took and place in the kart.
My mom replied,"Those are special napkins dear."

I guess technically that's true. XD

Oh my goodness, that's funny!

Mine isn't as scary, it's just yucky~ My mom used to tell me that my nails were made of roach wings. D: So I would stop biting them. It made no sense.. which is probably why I never stopped biting them. Sometimes I make fun of my mom and say "I love bug wings!" xD

My mom was lucky I was extremely gullible.
When I was three my mom would tell me my eyes would fall out if I didn't take my naps.
Then when I was in first grade my mom had this candle looking gel thing and she told me that there were nasty bugs on it and if i touched it the bugs would go straight to my brain and kill me.
At least I turned into a good kid.

I took that skill from my mommy and used a lie on my baby sister last night when she wouldn't fall asleep.
It was her bed time and she was having a hard time sleeping so i turned everything in the house off.
I brought her out to the living room and said "See honey, everything is asleep, because it is dark outside." then she tried to get down from my arms but then I told her that her toys were asleep too,and when she goes to sleep I sit on the floor and wait until she wakes up, you sleep because it is so much more fun than sitting here. She then asked me "what why?" I told her that what big kids do. We sat there for a good 10 minutes until she said "bed!!!"

Lying is horrible, but you need it to get little kids to do what the are supposed to do! : )

Mum used to tell me if I ate watermelon seeds watermelons would grow out my ears.

I ate them anyway. And I still have no ear watermelons. ]:< LIES!

@Vercingetorix
You almost sound like you want watermelon sprout poking out of you ears!! xD

I did. xD

What 5 year old doesn't want the ability to have watermelon any time? D: Even if it means having vines out your ears. xD

Actually, I've read articles about stuff like that becoming true. One man accidentally inhaled a seed, and he seriously had a tree grow inside him.

So while if you eat them, you don't have to worry too much because of the acid in your stomach, but if you accidentally inhaled one while eating, or it went down the wrong hole, you could very well have a watermelon grow inside you.

Surgeons Find Tree Growing Inside Man's Lung - Incredible Health - FOXNews.com

The older gentleman that inhaled the pea? I saw that too =o

:o that's horrifying! I'll never breathe around trees again!

@Pink: It wasn't a pea I don't think. I saw pictures, and it was a seed from an evergreen by the look of it. So this is then two separate accounts of plants growing in someone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050

I totally missed where you said tree. That's nuts. ><

I want a tree in me. D: Well if it wouldn't kill me or hurt. xD Or be heavy.

/shot

My mom said that for my birthday she'd take me to Niagara Falls. Lies!! She didn't take me there until 12 years later and it wasn't on my birthday, it was on the weekend my cousin was married!