Our Parents’ “Dire Warnings” Were Actually Just Lies

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

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.

4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.

0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

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…

19. Using Another Shampoo Brand

[dx_custom_adunit desktop_id=”RTK_K67O” mobile_id=”RTK_5yk0″]

4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.

Another user by the nickname ImRickyAndImSticky said that his mom lied about using other shampoos: “if I used one brand of shampoo and a different brand of conditioner that my hair would fall out.” Imagine how frightened he was about not losing his hair!

18. Dry Ramen Are Dangerous!

4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.

“My mom warned me as a kid that eating the loose pieces of dried ramen from the pack would make me deathly ill,” wrote Reddit user allthecagesinthezoo. Nonetheless, she kept eating it, and nothing happened.

17. Good For You

4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.

Reddit user Nitemarephantom said his parents told him that “people are going to push you to smoke (cigarettes)!” But then, he explained that every single person he met said the same thing when he told them he didn’t smoke: “Good for you, I wish I didn’t.”