Children's Myths

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  • MeMaybe
    MeMaybe Posts: 15
    THESE ARE ALL AMAZING! Thank yoooou! :D
  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
    If you swallow gum it stays in your stomach for a year.

    But thats true because my mom told me so.

    Clearly your mom was nicer then. Mine told me 7 years.

    I was also told 7

    Hahah maybe it's a Wisconsin thing? :p
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    " Anyone can grow up to be the President".




    As long as were born in this country........oops.....
  • BrightEyesx3
    BrightEyesx3 Posts: 335
    If you step on the cracks, you break your mums back.

    I'd be so scared to do this because my mom has had four back surgeries, 3 when I was little, and I used to think "oh no mommy's gonna need another surgery" if I stepped on one as a kid :ohwell:
  • Oliviamarie05
    Oliviamarie05 Posts: 528 Member
    Eating carrots will improve your eyesight.

    If you eat a watermelon seed, you will grow a watermelon in your tummy. (as my dad used to say)

    Storks bring children.

    If you sit hunched over, you will grow a hump back.

    Black cats mean bad luck.

    These are the ones I can remember :)
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    Not going to expound on it but there is the one about going blind.

    :: Sits here staring at my non-hairy palms:: Yeah, Mom was such a fibber on both counts.


    :laugh:
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    Gremlins should never be exposed to bright light ; never get them wet (which will make it multiply); and, most importantly: never, ever feed them after midnight.
  • GasMasterFlash
    GasMasterFlash Posts: 2,206 Member
    Dammit. Someone beat me to it.
  • shendras
    shendras Posts: 46 Member
    Babies grow in a garden.
  • kd_mazur
    kd_mazur Posts: 569 Member
    My kids do this:

    If you put a spoon under your pillow and throw an ice cube out the window the nght before school they will get a snow day.

    I have heard these and also wearing your PJs backward and doing the "snow day dance" before bed:) lol
  • Mercenary1914
    Mercenary1914 Posts: 1,087 Member
    If you step on a crack, you will break your momma's back

    If you eat the watermelon seed, it will grow in your stomach

    It's bad luck to split the pole

    Never look out the window when it's thundering and lightening...You will get struck..."Grandma always said that"

    Kids do not have nerves, only adults.

    Sugar makes kids too hyper



    One, two, Freddy's coming for you...Three, four, better lock your door...Five, six, grab your crucifix...Seven, eight, gonna stay up late...Nine, ten, never sleep again.


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  • emmygrace2012
    emmygrace2012 Posts: 44 Member
    One that affects the parents more than the kids.
    If you cut a child's hair before they are a year old, they will stutter.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    If you swallow apple pips an apple tree will grow in your belly!

    True story!

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,421 Member
    The chair game - a pregnant woman must pick between two chairs to sit in, one with a hidden knife and the other with a hidden pair of scissors. She doesn't know which is where. Whichever chair she picks determines the sex of the baby. (not really a child tales, but one of those I learned about when I was a little girl because I asked about it)

    Ha! So, I'm assuming the scissors is a girl, the knife a boy?


    Yeah, I'm smart like that. :laugh:
  • MJ7910
    MJ7910 Posts: 1,280 Member
    If you eat burnt toast you will be able to sing pretty

    (Ithink she just wanted us to eat the toast she burned!)

    i think i heard one about eating burnt toast making you get the ability to whistle...
  • sazzyp1973
    sazzyp1973 Posts: 517 Member
    If you make that horrid face, and the wind changes, you will be stuck with it
  • asw84
    asw84 Posts: 7 Member
    If you didn't have a belly button all your skin would roll off. lol
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    If you step over your brother, he will never grow.

    My parents also told my brother and I that tapioca had fish eyes in it and it was only when I was like 20, that I found out otherwise -_-
  • Kishsa27
    Kishsa27 Posts: 28 Member
    Hold your breath when passing a cemetary because its not polite to breath in front of people who can't.

    Lift your feet up when going over train tracks and you can't put them down until you pass a fire hydrant... I think this one had something to do with bad luck if you didn't do it.
  • KatieRuns1983
    KatieRuns1983 Posts: 10 Member
    In my family the older kids told the younger kids that if you ate a green potato chip when you were under a certain age that you'd die. This is because they were told that the green chips were good luck and they wanted them.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    You keep pulling on that and it will fall off!
  • sktllmdrhmz
    sktllmdrhmz Posts: 1,799 Member
    If you get in the van I'll give you some candy.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    your face will freeze like that

    gypsies will come and steal you if your not quite

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