Silly things you were told or thought as a child.

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My mom would always tell me not to keep a funny face for long or else it would get stuck like that forever. A silly thing I thought as a kid was that if I stared at a full moon I'd turn into a werewolve.

What about you? What's the most silly thing you were told or thought as a child?

 

[10th Doctor]

When I was little, I thought that there were 'little people' inside the traffic lights, operating them.

 

[OnionKing]

Mom used to tell me to never play with fire or matches or else I would wet my bed at night. She also told me that eating too much too fast before swimming would cause cramps, and I could drown...

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

My mum used to tell me that there was a rabbit in the moon, due to the pattern looking very much like one.

It really does look more like a rabbit than a man in my opinion. <_<

I believed that for a while. XD

 

[Fusilli]

I was told that if i made a face and the wind changed it would stay like that. I never even understood what my mum meant by the 'wind changing' but it scared me anyway.

She also used to tell me that eating my crusts would make my hair curlier. And that babies just 'happened' and if you didn't want one you had to ask God nicely.

And my grandad used to tell my sister and I that Santa had magic dust that he sprinkled over the world to make everyone fall asleep and to stop time whilst he went round all the houses, but if we didn't fall asleep before 9pm then he wouldn't come. <_<

Oh, I also used to think there were tiny people living in the tv putting on shows for us.

 

[Crazee Dayzee]

- When I had the flu I'd be afraid to fall asleep sometimes 'cause I thought I'd die.
- I constructed a theory that the metal in the meteor that crashed into the Earth millions of years ago caused an extreme magnetic reaction with the poles to produce a black whole which sucked in all the Dinosaurs. (fo srs)

 

[Captain Azulas]

I was told that I'd have terrible luck for the rest of the day if I swore.

 

[Makatak]

My dad once told me that they didn't have pencils when he was growing up; he had to use some kind of tool (a chisel, I think) to do his schoolwork. And sometimes he would run out of time to complete a test before he finished writing his name on it. When I inquired about it later, he denied all of it.

 

[Coco]

Someone told me (I forgot who) that if I swallowed gum, it'd make my intestines sticky and I wouldn't get to poop anymore.

I believed it until I was around 9.

 

[Stannis]

I was told if i looked at the TV for to long my eyes would go square i soon realised that my mum only said this to make me go to bed earlier

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

For the longest time my Poppy told me that the reason he had no finger tips was because his pet Cockatoo bit them off. =0

He told us never to stick our fingers in the cage or he'd do the same to us. =0

I later found out that when he and one of my uncles were younger, they were out cutting firewood and my uncle accidentally came down with the axe while my Poppys fingers were still in the way. v_v

 

[Shu]

I later found out that when he and one of my uncles were younger, they were out cutting firewood and my uncle accidentally came down with the axe while my Poppys fingers were still in the way. v_v

Sheesh I wonder if they laugh looking back at it now? Scary thought.

I think the only thing my parents actually told me was that was ridiculous was about food. Something along the lines of if I ate 30 minutes before swimming I'd get a cramp.. yet I always swam right after. I never had problems though.

 

[Bambi]

If I keep picking my nose my brains will fall out, I'm still testing this theory

Sitting to close to the tv will make your eyes square... why they cant just say it'll give yuou headache or you are just in the WAY is beyond me

 

[Daenerys]

We're doing about how language develops in Children in English Language, and my friend had a story, she has a friend who gets the colours yellow and pink mixed up cause when she was growing up her dad thought it would be funny to tell her yellow was pink and pink was yellow

No one pointed it out to her until she was 16 and she still gets muddled xD That just sounds cruel. But funny. 8F

 

[Ilyena]

My dad used to tell me that if I kept my eyes crossed for too long, they'd never come uncrossed. I also used to get the one about my face freezing that way if I was making a face my parents didn't like. >_>

Also my grandpa used to always make up some sort of gross dish when you asked him what he was cooking. "Possum Vittles" seemed to be one of his all-time favorites. Before we actually figured out he was joking, we would always run to my grandma and tell her we didn't want to eat possum.

 

[King Sean]

My parents always used to say that if I tickle someone's feet, they lose the ability to speak

Also, they would say that if I went to sleep late, I would see ghosts dancing at the twilight hour This one seemed extremely stupid as I disproved it the same night.

 

[The Witch]

If I keep picking my nose my brains will fall out, I'm still testing this theory

Sitting to close to the tv will make your eyes square... why they cant just say it'll give yuou headache or you are just in the WAY is beyond me

Lol, my older brother tried proving that theory when we were kids, to.
I got told the "sitting too close to the T.v." thing. I always sat wayyy too close to the T.v. and I always got a headache, but I always sat up close again.

My dad used to tell me that if I kept my eyes crossed for too long, they'd never come uncrossed. I also used to get the one about my face freezing that way if I was making a face my parents didn't like. >_>

My dad still says that stuff.

When I was a kid I use to think if a spun around fast enough, I could fall through the floor(because the area would be spinning after) and reach China.

Can't think of anymore...