Parenting is a task nobody knows how to handle, especially when people are parents for the first time. And when kids start to act up of demand things, we have to be creative: “don’t do that, or else this will happen.” Surprisingly, this works for a few years. A thread on Ask Reddit was specially created by user Get-off-my-wave, asking people: “What dire warning from your parents turned out to be […] pure lie?”
20. Water Logged
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Reddit user mikelisse told everyone that her mom used to warn her when she was a kid that “staying in the water too long would make me “waterlogged.” She said she could look into my eyes and see the level of water in my system.” If the water level rose too high, she would drown! The poor kid believed it for many years…