"Medical" advice from mother

[spiff]

During my childhood I was told from my mother that you could get "cheese poisoning",too much vinegar would "dry my blood up", eating to much sugar would make me "catch diabetes" and that I should not wear a digital watch when I slept because of "the rays". Has anyone else had similar "advice" from their parents,and if so, what was it?

[simms]

Too much sugar would give you worms; eating apple peel would give you appendicitis; oh, and being bored was a mortal sin (hey ho, once a catholic....)

[sddsddean]

If you bite your fingernails you'd get worms!

Got out with wet hair you'd catch a cold.

[Hgrove]

If you sweat and allow the sweat to dry in the air you will die of pneumonia (always put on a woolly jumper).

[secretspirit]

I always got the usual one about eating bread crusts would make my hair curly. As I didn't want curly hair it was the perfect excuse not to eat them!

[FP]

Carrots helped you to see in the dark.  (However, there is some evidence that there might be some truth in this)

Don't bath if you are menstruating!

Sitting on a cold surface would give you piles

Squeezing spots would send  infection into your brain!!!!  I firmly believed that.

[Headtime]

www.b3ta.com, ran a good question session recently where people were invited to post lies their parents had told them. There's a good 25 pages of them, and some are absolutely hilarious;

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/liesyourparentstoldyou/pag e1/

enjoy.

[woofgang]

now we used to get told at school that sitting in radiators would give you piles!!

[natalie_1982]

Yep, I got the vinegar, piles and the worms ones too.

Also, (I know now that's it's nasty!) if you chew your chair then it will grow into a big ball in your stomach, which I could never quite understand because I didn't actually eat my hair.

Dropping a key down your back to stop a nosebleed.

FP, please elabourate on the bath time one.  Why shouldn't you have bathed if you were menstruating?

[natalie_1982]

Ooooh!  And the too much telly = squares eyes.

[natalie_1982]

Oh and picking your nose your brains will fall out.

[Merlin]

If you swallow chewing / bubble gum, it will stick to your heart.

[racheltje]

Lol natalie,  I got a bit worried when I read about you chewing your chair, til I read futher down and realised you meant hair!

[natalie_1982]

I never noticed and now can't stop giggling!  I'm pretty sure my mum would have an anecdote for that as well though, don't eat chairs or your teeth will fall out!

[woofgang]

I think the bathing and menstruation one was around being extra vulnerable to "catching a chill" keep in mind the lack of central jheating and endless hotr water

[fly258]

Tue much masterbayshun will rooin yoor spellin.

[FP]

For Natalie:  This is true.

Years ago the daughter of a friend, aged about 15,  was rushed into hospital with severe stomach pains and was very, very ill.  The xrays showed a large mass, which was feared to be cancer.  They did an exploratory op and the mass was, in fact, a very large mass of chewed hair which had stuck to her insides and gathered other unpleasant things.    It had apparently been then for years and was a result of her chewing her hair when she was a young kid.  I promise I am not kidding.  It was a very frightening experience for the whole family.

 

Woofgang's explanation about bathing when menstruating is correct.  I was also advised it was unwise to wash my hair at this time!!!

[IndieSinger]

My mum always told me that drinking out of wet glasses gave you a sore throat. It took me until I was 19 to work out that all glasses were wet if you were drinking out of them.

 

[FP]

GAB Indie Singer.  I suppose you still believe that babies are found under gooseberry bushes!!

[IndieSinger]

No, but, when I was likkle, if I did something mildly wrong, my dad would often say (tongue firmly in cheek), "That's a smaking offence, that is."

However, it was only when I was TWENTY-ONE that I realised he was saying this. I always thought he was saying, "That's a smack in a fence, that is."

I often had the mental image of him going out to the back garden and beating the fence with a stick. It never occurred to me to ask myself why this should be a punishment to me.

[FP]

If you pull a face and the wind changes you will stay like that!!