lies your parents told you when you were younger

For years my dad convinced my sister and I that he was 16. I don't even know why he did it or how we believed it for so long lmao.

That the ice cream truck was called the “music truck”

this ;-;

by the time I was old enough to realize they had ice cream, I was old enough to realize that it was AWFUL ice cream lmao

I would be here for years if I had to write down all the lies. tl;dr: My entire life was just lie after lie. One of my "favorites" was when I wouldn't want to eat something, whether it be due to being picky, not liking the food, or getting sick from it, my mother would tell me that if I did not eat said food that children in Africa would starve to death. Not the typical, "be grateful you have this, there are others who don't" kind of speech, but flat out, if I did not eat this random green thing in front of me, children would die.

Another one; trying to wake me up by telling me my father was in the hospital or in a wreck or even going so far as to say he was dying. Yeah, when he did die I didn't budge when she said this to me after so many times of crying wolf. 

Least some of the lies aren't malicious you know? But it's our turn to make a better mental space for our kids than the ones we were given. 

When we were watching the three caballeros on my granddads vhs tape i kept asking what bahia was and my parents didnt know so they said it was a made-up word

So many people still believe this one. 

I mean the last one isn't a lie, if you're enrolled in a school year and not homeschooled and tardy from school too many times a year with no explanation and without parental approval they are obligated to come to your house and figure out why you're not attending. So yeah if you skipped class multiple times without having your parent call you out the cops WOULD in fact show up to issue a warning for delinquency.

But anyway.

The most frequent lie was that there were cameras all over the house they would check to see what I did. This continued into my teens until they *actually did* install spyware on my computer to remote in at any time and a camera above the hallway. This has also caused lasting paranoia that there are cameras in my house that they got access to my house somehow to find what im doing or sometimes just the government is spying on me to see if I'm a threat.

Less harmful but they tried to get me to believe in Santa, but the key problem was that my grandma was a mall santa for 20 years and even though I was 6 months old for my first christmas, she was playing santa and one year later, I still knew she waa santa and nearly called her out in a line full of other kids. I was made to promise to not tell and ruin the magic for other kids, so I didn't. When I was a little older I became an elf. They still wrote santa on my presents anyway for some reason.

This did not work with the tooth fairy either. Once again, not for lack of trying on their part but by the time my first tooth fell out in the kitchen i just handed it to my mom and she gave me a dollar and i don't think it ever came up again because she didn't want any of my other teeth except the first one so I have the rest in a bag. I dunno why I kept them either tbh but I still have them.

Oh my god that’s terrible!! I literally have no idea what to say but your parents literally sound like the worst people ever. 

I'm so glad elf on a shelf wasnt a thing back then they probably would have tried to use it even if I didnt believe in santa they still told me they had cameras in lots of hidden places. the only place my mom said there wasnt a camera was the bathroom because after i was a little older i started being afraid of baths and she had to prove there was no cameras in there so i would bathe again.