Since the comments on our last post were an absolute riot, we decided to ask people what lies their parents told them as kids, and boy were there a LOT of them!!! We get it, parenting is often a walk through Jurassic Park. Parents have been pulling a fast one since time immemorial, expertly concocting ingenious lies within a split second. After all, with great power comes the great responsibility… of coming up with world class lies. 

Isabel Issai

We can go another day. You can go there after you get married.

Iffath Latiff

Don’t Swallow paper since you’ll have a paper tree growing inside of you

Zeeshan Akram Jabeer

You can do whatever you want after you turn 18. 

Darshani Abeyrathna

You will get whatever you want if you come through your A/L's with flying colours.

Allan Blok

My dad told me that all alcoholic beverages were made with ingredients that will kill those below 40 because our bodies are not equipped to handle the said ingredient and that soda could only be had once I was 20. For the same reason.

Aishath Raulah Ahmed

If you eat while standing up...your toes will grow bigger than you. If you work hard enough anything you want will be yours.

Naomi Athuraliya

On an attempt to keep me from over eating sweets, my parents told me I was allergic to Nutella

Ashan Rathnawardhana

If you open an umbrella and stand under it indoors, you will grow up to be short.

Shiwanthi Kahandaliyanage

If I swallowed bubble gum, a bubble gum tree would grow in my stomach and sprout from my ears and nose.

Dush Ratnayake

If you keep making faces and the wind changes, your face will get stuck like that.

Manaal Mowlana

That “Wee-Willie-Winkie” will come around and tell “Pied-Piper” to come take me away if I don’t go to bed at 8!

Rosariya Liyanage

Eat leaves they said, fairer you'll be they said.

Nadeesha Widanapathirana

That there is a rabbit in the moon.

Fazmina Samat

Bite your nails and a nail tree will grow inside you. See that uncle with the big belly? He swallows children who don't eat!

Dean White

Once a month Peter Pan in a ship comes flying down from Neverland at night to take us there for a visit but I always missed it 'cause I was asleep. My older sister went and it was as magical as my dad described it. Soda rivers, ice cream trees, etc. A lot more details and crazy stories that I can't remember. Makes me wonder how the heck he has that much of an imagination to make this stuff up.

Tesh Perera Larsen

I was told free and easy pads were used to clean the floor and vomit

Mahika Samayadasa

Before going on school trips, they promise to fill in the slip and give the expense. The next day I am not allowed to go because it’s not safe, along with the slip signed that I won’t be attending the annual trip.

Ali Madeeh

That there was a ghost named “Santhi” that would come if I don't eat. Later I skipped meals to see if this was true. But no!

Insiya Haweliwala

If you eat spinach you’ll be strong like Popeye the sailor man. Oh and drinking coffee will make me short “and that’s why I’m short now”.

Dilini Fonseka 

My parents used to pretend that any kind of soda was medicine. They made faces whenever they used to drink it, pretending they were forced to. They even went as far as to get other family members involved in the scam. I can't bring myself to drink soda to this day. Especially Coke.

Ayesh Pigera

My parents lied that most snack food was Spicy! Including chocolate, tipi tip and lollipops.