Weird things your mum told you and you believed at the time ..

Oopsadaisy1

Carrots help you to see better.

It's true that carrots contain vitamin A that helps vision but the story originates from wartime propaganda to mislead the Germans about night fighter use of airborne radar. The propaganda said that pilots ate lots of carrots so they had better night vision.

My mother said don’t wash your hair during periods. My omniscient brother chipped in that I’d get blood in my hair if I washed my hair during the curse
I found this on a yoga site.
If you hair wash during periods, with cold water, it interferes with the natural detoxification. Take head bath only on the fourth day. So these tales persist.
(I never wash my hair in cold water unless the shower heater cuts out mid shower.)

Having a bath or a shower during a menstrual period is dangerous 🙄

Oh yes, washing hair was also dangerous during a period 🙄

my mum was always saying "MEN! - they are only after one thing!" but she has still never told me what that is? LOL

I'm quite amazed at how many muns still believed that.

My friend couldn't go to the weekly disco because her hair looked as if a chip pan had been emptied on it, and her mum strictly forbade her to wash it.

Explanation of where I came from
God had a garden and he grew us all from seed
Explanation of different colour skin
God had an oven and we were all baked to different colours
Analogies to avoid clear explanation ! I dont think she ever told me the true facts of life
So different now !

My parents said you mustn’t use the water in which you have boiled eggs because you would get warts on your hands. I am still reluctant to use the lovely hot water.

As a teenager I was told that if I plucked my eyebrows they would grow back black and bushy! Not sure about black as I was a redhead!
In fact the opposite can happen, overplucked brows may not grow back.

My mum told me the bats that flew around the house would get tangled my hair if I played outside when it was dusk so I always made sure I was inside well before then as I didn’t want my hair cutting off. A time or two, when I stayed a bit later playing at a friend’s house, I would run home with my hands over my head just to be on the safe side!

Grannynannywanny: I was told the same thing, and my big brother believed it too, as the green lady came to visit my mum who was on complete bed rest in the weeks leading up to my due date. He asked her if she had the baby in her bag and was told what and see and sure enough I arrived 6 weeks early. He’s never let me forget he didn’t get his lunch until much later that day😂😂

You won't get hairs on your chest if you don't eat your crusts and your Filey Bay fish. (Yorkshire Grandpa)

Mum - it's a bit black over Bill's mothers ... my dad was Bill, so I always thought it must be raining in Filey!

The one I said to my girls, was when they started asking if Santa Claus was real "well is it worth the risk?" Ha, ha!

Not my Mum, but my Dad’s mum. Dad had a greenhouse where he grew tomatoes and I loved them. So much so that I would go in there and eat them straight from the plant. Nana told me that I would get appendicitis from all the seeds gathering in my appendix. Didn’t stop me!

I’m a Yorkshire lass and My Mum didn't tell me about fairies, but i loved the story about Spike Milligan writing tiny little letters with tiny little writing to his children, which he used to put at the bottom of his garden and told them the letters were from the fairies. Lovely man!

Lizzies

Not my Mum, but my Dad’s mum. Dad had a greenhouse where he grew tomatoes and I loved them. So much so that I would go in there and eat them straight from the plant. Nana told me that I would get appendicitis from all the seeds gathering in my appendix. Didn’t stop me!

Appendicitis can be sparked off by tomato pips, I'm sure.
I read it somewhere and I don't have a link, but it's what I think I read.

I was told that my mum had gone to the maternity hospital to bring home my baby sister. When she arrived with the baby I wondered why she hadn't picked a nicer one.

Carrots help with night-vision, actually.

My mother was German and I still chuckle when I recall her telling me, obviously in a German/London accent, "do your coat up or you'll get a shill and your shest. "

I used to tell my grandchildren when they were small that the wild strawberries in the garden were for the fairies to feed to their babies because they only had tiny mouths. They would very carefully pick them and put them in a circle around a tree for the fairies to come and collect them later. Also when my own children reached an age where they were ready give up their dummies we would have a little ceremony where the child in question was helped up to the first branch or junction in the tree trunk where they would carefully place their dummies for the mummy birds to collect them for the baby birds. This was just before the children's afternoon nap. When the nap was over we would go out to the garden and there would be a nicely wrapped present for the child with a little thank you note from the mummy bird. If there was any hesitancy at bedtime then we would discuss how much the baby birds were enjoying using the dummies and that now you were a big boy or girl you would not need to use a dummy any more. It worked with both my children.

I don’t think my mother ever told me anything that wasn’t true. I always knew (very approximately) where babies came from. When she said “between the front and the back”, I imagined they came out of the side, though! She answered all my questions as well as she could, even if I didn’t always understand the answers.

You mustn’t wash your hair when you have a period

Grandma70s

I don’t think my mother ever told me anything that wasn’t true. I always knew (very approximately) where babies came from. When she said “between the front and the back”, I imagined they came out of the side, though! She answered all my questions as well as she could, even if I didn’t always understand the answers.

So, no Santa, no tooth fairy etc?

Pips in tummy to apple tree lol I eat pips
Stork brings the baby
...some of those above are scary. Poor child 😬

25Avalon

Don’t wash your hair if having a period which I always thought was rubbish.

Like Terribull’s mum mine used to line the toilet seat in public loos with toilet paper before I sat down.

MY mother didn't waste time fiddling around with toilet paper!

She taught us to keep our thighs and bottoms hovering above the seat, or if we had to sit ,to sit on our hands and wash them properly before leaving the public toilet.

She also taught us never to dry our hands on a cloth towel used by others outside the family - dry your hands on you underskirt or your hankie!

She was convinced and not even my father, a doctor, could convince her otherwise that you could contract venereal diseases or TB from public toilets.

Yes, lining the toilet seat was obligatory.