Do You Remember the Funniest Thing Your Parents Ever Told You?
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Parents tell children some funny things in the hope it’ll give them incentive to do the right thing . You know the usual Santa is watching to see if you’re being good to bring your presents etc . However some of what they say can be funny . Can you share any funny things parents have said
I remember someone telling me that they had told their child that when the ice cream truck plays the tune it’s because they have sold out of ice creams lol
Pfs that was a popular one too “good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite!” Lol
JLouM I remember that one too , I’d be so careful not to swallow any apple or orange pips lol
JLouM that was one I believed too . I don’t think anyone ever picked a dandelion in my area . Then there was the buttercup one . If you held a buttercup under someone’s chin and you could see the yellow shine on the skin you liked butter !!!!!! It depended if the sun was shining really I think , or maybe our imagination. Whatever the reason I believed it . Lol
I was told to eat the crusts on the bread and my hair would curl. Why I wanted curly hair as I child I don’t know. But I eat my crusts and my hair is dead straight.
eyeballkerry my mum use to say the same when I was a kid, but after many years of my hair not curling I couldnt be bothered and stopped eating them 
Eat your carrots so you can see in the dark. My dad used to say stop picking your nose or you will end up like this, as he held up his hand which had a missing forefinger!
Lynibis I remember the carrot one and then my dad would say “have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?”. The evidence to back up the statement about seeing in the dark , lol
jms19 wow what an interesting fact . I didn’t know this so wanted to see why the myth had started after reading your comment . Thanks for teaching me something 
Lynibis That was a bit extreme, did you believe it? I have heard the one, if you pick your nose, your head will cave in.
eyeballkerry ha ha I can't remember. I have heard your brains will fall out but I suppose your head might cave in if that happened.
Was told burnt toast made your hair curl I still love burnt toast my hair so straight 
When my eldest son was a around 3-4 he queried why there was always socks/ shoes in the tree in the park. ( Iv no idea why but everytime we went there was more) So as a fun story I told him it was a shoe growing tree. That it grew socks & socks grew to shoes etc. Fast forward a couple of years & I catch him telling a friend of mine how her shoes grew on a tree. Turned out he'd believed all those years that shoes actually did grow on trees. Don't lie to kids I suppose 
Glitterandgold oooooh we had better tell them there is no such person as Santa Claus lol 
I always remember being told not to tell lies or my nose would grow as big as Pinocchios 
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TiaTia I too was told that , I remember looking in the mirror once after telling a tiny lie actually thinking my nose had grown. I really believed I could see it was larger , lol
I've never heard of the 'myth' before, but in terms of science/health wise I know carrots help because of vitamin A .... but obviously not to the superhuman level and carrots won't be the only thing that helps. They may not have had the science at the time in ww2 , but maybe it actually helped a little in night blindness, since it was more difficult to eat well so they were probably deficient.
jigsawx3x last night I was actually thinking why hadn’t anyone mentioned this one , because it’s a very popular saying . I know I’ve heard it millions of times. Thanks for sharing it , at last . lol
Was told several as a kid
Keep poking tongue out crow peck it off .
Pull that face again and stay like that .
Eat your porridge and have chest hair
Eat crusts and have curly hair.
Eat carrots help see in dark
My son wouldn't eat cauliflower but loved broccoli so we called the cauliflower white broccoli and he scoffed it down. lol
I’m enjoying reading the sayings our parents would say to us as kids . It’s strange that we all seem to have been told the same “tales” , lol . I was actually thinking I wonder what started some of these classic sayings off . There must be a story behind them . If anyone has any idea of the origins of some of these , please enlighten me . I really would love to know
Don't lie or your nose will grow.
Don't eat pips or it will grow inside of you.
Eat your crusts, it will put hairs on your chest - my response was I don't want a hairy chest 
Eat your veg it will make you big and strong.
Don't pick your nose or your brains will fall out - why they didn't just say because it was gross I don't know 
I wonder how many generations these have been passed down from.
I remember hearing a myth a while ago and the origin, I wish I remembered what the phrase was! I think it was something about cooking in a smaller tray, it was blown way out of context and it was literally just because ovens were smaller and the bigger one wouldn't fit. It had nothing to do with the quality of the meal.
My mum always told us, if you don't stop playing with your belly button, your legs will drop off
stevea808 lol I’ve never heard that one before but I’m sure that I’ll never forget it. Lol . Thanks for sharing it with everyone
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