lies mother told us

[froggielover]

hey all.. it's a lazy sunday for me.  my son is at church and my husband is still sleeping and i have some quiet time to myself. not something a mother gets often.

my mind is racing with memories of my childhood and i'm remembering some lies my mother told me when i was a young girl and i'm wondering if any of you have some lies your mother told you. 

ie:
1. my mom told me that oranges are naturally green and that they inject them with dies to make them orange.  so i honestly didn't know if oranges were orange or green naturally.

2.  mom told me that there was sawdust in white bread and that's why we were never able to eat it cuz it would clog up our insides.  i like white bread but kept it a secret that i thought there was sawdust in it.

now some of you may be asking yourself if i'm really that stupid.  i was raised in a strict home and was very sheltered.  i didn't find out about some things till i was older.  so .. i'm not putting this out there to get made fun of..

i'll share one more...  i was about 4 when my mom told me that if i ate ants my eyes would turn blue.  i didn't know that my eyes were blue already.  so my older sister came home from school one day and found me eating ants.. she asked what i was doing and i told her about what mom said.  lol.  i think that was a mean joke.. but funny now. 

i believe what people say and i'm very trusting of people..  mom was having fun with me i know..

[krispy]

that makes me think back also.

i believed two things when i was growing up.

that moms dont touch their children after four years old. i remember it was my fourth birthday. i was sitting in my mother's lap. she looked at me and told me that since i was four, i was now too old to be held or hugged or sit on her lap. that was the last time she ever hugged me. i, of course, figured out in time that was not true. and made sure to give my girls hugs. lol.

i also grew up thinking maybe meant no, lol. that is what i was told.  :)

[hades]

ahhh...eating ants  :x yuckie

[zeboo]

wow unreal, my mother always told me the bitter truth, sometimes I didn't always like the outcome and I had wished sometimes she would have lied to me  :))

[~Ãutolovér~]

that makes me think back also.

i believed two things when i was growing up.

that moms dont touch their children after four years old. i remember it was my fourth birthday. i was sitting in my mother's lap. she looked at me and told me that since i was four, i was now too old to be held or hugged or sit on her lap. that was the last time she ever hugged me. i, of course, figured out in time that was not true. and made sure to give my girls hugs. lol.

i also grew up thinking maybe meant no, lol. that is what i was told.  :)

Oh wow Krispy thats sad....I will always hug my son, no matter what age he is. <3

[krispy]

that makes me think back also.

i believed two things when i was growing up.

that moms dont touch their children after four years old. i remember it was my fourth birthday. i was sitting in my mother's lap. she looked at me and told me that since i was four, i was now too old to be held or hugged or sit on her lap. that was the last time she ever hugged me. i, of course, figured out in time that was not true. and made sure to give my girls hugs. lol.

i also grew up thinking maybe meant no, lol. that is what i was told.  :)

Oh wow Krispy thats sad....I will always hug my son, no matter what age he is. <3

ahhhh dont be. i grew up and considered the source, lol.

[Helen]

I remember my aunt telling my cousin that if she crossed her eyes when she was mad that they would get "stuck" like that forever.

I remember my Mom telling my brother that (I think a lot of Moms have used this one) if he told a lie his nose would grow.

[froggielover]

that makes me think back also.

i believed two things when i was growing up.

that moms dont touch their children after four years old. i remember it was my fourth birthday. i was sitting in my mother's lap. she looked at me and told me that since i was four, i was now too old to be held or hugged or sit on her lap. that was the last time she ever hugged me. i, of course, figured out in time that was not true. and made sure to give my girls hugs. lol.

i also grew up thinking maybe meant no, lol. that is what i was told.  :)

wow.  even adult children need hugs from mom.. i know i do and i'm 32.  i dont know what to say to that.
i'ts wonderful that your giving   your children lots of love.. every child needs hugged and kissed.

mom used to tell me also that she had eyes in the back of her head and was able to see what i was doing behind her back so i was to be careful.  i believed her too. lol

she said if i say "um" too much .. arms would grow out of my stomach..

she  also said that if i eat seeds from a watermellon that they would grow in my stomach and out my mouth.  i still dont like watermellon cuz of that silly story even now. lol

[Shady Lady]

I must confess I told my kids when they were real small that if they ate the watermelon seeds they would have a watermelon grow in their stomachs. I realized how serious they took me when one was 10 yrs old and refused to eat watermelon because he didn't want a watermelon to grow in his stomach.

[hades]

one of my uncles used to say that if you ate to much sausage a worm growed in your stomach...after that a couple of my cousins are deadly afraid to eat any  :))

[ClingFree]

I was 6 ....  My gramps asked me if I liked my freckles - which I HATED at the time .... He told me if I didnt like my freckles to wash my face with my cousin's p!ssy diaper. I was disgusted and told him there was no way I was putting pee on my face. Come to find out ... My Mother had done it when he told her to, and she was 8!!!

[Helen]

I was 6 ....  My gramps asked me if I liked my freckles - which I HATED at the time .... He told me if I didnt like my freckles to wash my face with my cousin's p!ssy diaper. I was disgusted and told him there was no way I was putting pee on my face. Come to find out ... My Mother had done it when he told her to, and she was 8!!!

Ew.....that wasn't very nice of Gramps.  :o

[froggielover]

I was 6 ....  My gramps asked me if I liked my freckles - which I HATED at the time .... He told me if I didnt like my freckles to wash my face with my cousin's p!ssy diaper. I was disgusted and told him there was no way I was putting pee on my face. Come to find out ... My Mother had done it when he told her to, and she was 8!!!

:o   wow!

[Shady Lady]

 :x Glad you were smarter than  you're Mom.

I was 6 ....  My gramps asked me if I liked my freckles - which I HATED at the time .... He told me if I didnt like my freckles to wash my face with my cousin's p!ssy diaper. I was disgusted and told him there was no way I was putting pee on my face. Come to find out ... My Mother had done it when he told her to, and she was 8!!!

[ClingFree]

:x Glad you were smarter than  you're Mom.

I was 6 ....  My gramps asked me if I liked my freckles - which I HATED at the time .... He told me if I didnt like my freckles to wash my face with my cousin's p!ssy diaper. I was disgusted and told him there was no way I was putting pee on my face. Come to find out ... My Mother had done it when he told her to, and she was 8!!!

Me too! And honestly, that is just the tip of the iceberg with Gramps. Soo many stories and I love every single one of em!