What are the ten lies that parents always tell their children?

When the child was eating watermelon, he accidentally ate the seeds and said: It’s over, I swallowed the watermelon seeds.

I suddenly had a bad taste. I remembered what my parents said to me every time I ate fruit seeds when I was a child. I deliberately scared him: It’s over, it’s over. After a while, a seed will grow from your belly. A watermelon vine sprouts from the top of the head and produces many large watermelons. You have to go to school with a watermelon on your head.

I thought he would be scared to death, but he looked at me like I was an idiot and said that this kind of trick to trick children is outdated. Who doesn’t know that everything eaten in the stomach will be washed away in the end? bathroom?

When the child said this, I realized that times have indeed changed. In the past, because of such a small joke, we would worry about not sleeping well for days and nights. We would always wonder if a tree would really grow on our heads, and we would always be cautious when eating fruit. Children today should not be able to understand that feeling of nervousness, confusion and fear.

But after such a comparison, I suddenly remembered many of the "threatening" words our parents said to us when we were children, which always frightened us when we were children. Especially many of our parents in rural Sichuan often used These ten sentences are on your lips, do you still have an impression?

First sentence: Don’t ask me for money when playing mahjong

Sichuan people like to play mahjong and believe in luck, so they pay a lot of attention when playing mahjong. You can't borrow money to play at the table, you can't talk to those watching from the side, you can change directions if you always lose, etc. The most important point here is that when they play mahjong, no one can come and ask them for money, especially children (of course, it’s fine if they take the initiative to give it), because they think they will definitely lose money. .

The second sentence: You were picked up from the garbage heap

When I was a child, I always liked to ask myself where I came from, and my parents would always say casually: I was picked up from the garbage heap. If asked again, they would say they picked it up on the side of the road. I also asked, it was picked up from the mountain opposite. Anyway, I just picked them up, and I won’t say that I gave birth to them. It's not like today's children. Even if you don't say it, others know that they came out of the mother's belly.

The third sentence: If you eat fruit seeds, a tree will grow in your stomach; if you swallow bubble gum, it will stick to your intestines

Children often accidentally swallow things they shouldn’t eat when they eat. It enters the stomach, so every time I ate fruit or something at that time, my parents would tell me not to eat the seeds as well. If you ask why, they will say that if you eat the seeds, a tree will grow in your belly, and then it will sprout from the top of your head and bear fruit. Can scare the hell out of you.

Especially like the big bubble gums that the post-90s generation loved to eat when they were young. Children always swallowed them when they were no longer tasty. Our parents would often scare us, saying that if we swallowed them, our intestines would be damaged. They will be stuck together and require a doctor's surgery to remove them.

The fourth sentence: Holding an umbrella in the house will make you grow taller

When I was a child, I was very naughty. Sometimes when it rained, I would see my parents and elders using umbrellas hanging on the wall and dripping water, so I would take them myself. Get up and play. As a result, parents will immediately come over and say: If you hold an umbrella in the house, you will become short and not grow taller. In fact, now I know that they said this deliberately because they were afraid that we would damage the umbrellas or hurt us with the umbrellas.

The fifth sentence: If you point to the moon, your ears will be cut off

This is the sentence that scares me the most and I believe it deeply. When I was a child, I was always curious about things in the sky. One day I asked why the moon was not round, and tomorrow I asked why the moon was so crooked. I kept pointing with one little finger. Your parents will tell you not to point at the moon. When it gets angry, it will come and cut your ears while you are asleep.

I didn’t believe it at first, so I pointed blindly every day, and then I pulled my ears every day to see if they were hurt. As a result, I pulled too much, and my ear was really torn open, and I thought it was the moon that cut it. From then on, I was so scared that I never dared to point to the moon again.

The sixth sentence: Pig sporks, chicken feet and pig tails cannot be eaten by children

This sentence made me suspect that our parents just didn’t want us to eat well. Food.

Because when I grew up, I discovered that pig’s feet, chicken feet, pig tails, etc. are all very delicious things. Where can’t I eat them? But in Sichuan, the elders will think that the marriage of a child who eats pig's feet will not be good, the hands of a child who eats chicken feet will not grow well, and the child who eats a pig's tail will be the last to do anything. It was so miserable to be deceived.

Seventh sentence: If you cry again, call the thief boy to carry you away

This thief boy means a thief, and it is probably the nightmare of all children. Parents will always exaggerate how scary they are to you. As soon as you lose your temper or cry, the first thing they will do is tell you that thieves like to steal children who love crying. If you cry again, they will take you away.

I was often beaten by my father for this matter, because there was a man in the village who used to be a thief but later became a good man. Whenever I saw him when I was a kid, I thought he was going to steal me, so I would punch and kick him as soon as I saw him. As a result, my father took me home and beat me.

Sentence 8: Where do children get their backs?

When I was a child, my parents were tired from working. When they came home, they would always say that they were so tired today that they could not straighten their backs. We also follow suit. Sometimes when we do something, we will complain about back pain when we are tired. At this time, parents will smile and say: You are a little kid, where did your waist come from? A day full of nonsense. Seeing how sincere they are, it makes me still doubt whether children really have no waists?

Nineth sentence: If you play with fire, you will wet the bed, and if you watch others pee, you will get a needle's eye

If you accidentally wet the bed when you were a child, your parents would definitely say that you were playing with fire during the day. ? And it doesn’t matter whether you really played it or not, it will definitely be said that you did anyway. When you really play with fire, someone will immediately tell you that you are going to wet the bed again tonight.

Whether you are a boy or a girl, your parents must have told you that you should never watch others go to the toilet. No matter whether they are adults or children, if you look at them, your eyes will grow pinholes, you will get pink eye, and you will go blind.

Sentence 10: Mom will help you save the new year’s money and pay it back to you when you grow up

This is the most fortunate thing for me. Because I didn’t have any new year’s money since I was a child, I don’t feel distressed. Hahaha. Friends who have been able to collect a lot of lucky money and get a lot of red envelopes during the New Year since childhood, are you now in your twenties or thirties and haven’t looked at where the lucky money your mother saved for you was? It's funny when I think about it, but who would have thought that now I would use the same method to coax my child's New Year's money, and I would not be prepared to return it to him in the future.

In fact, there are many things that our parents often said to us. When we were young, we didn’t understand it, so we believed it to be true, and we were even afraid of it. When I grew up, I discovered that our parents said these things to protect us and for our own good. Now that I think about it, it has slowly become a memory for one generation or even several generations.