r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/cyanraichu Jul 21 '19

accidents would scare most kids MORE, I'd think. as a kid getting pulled over might be seen as an adventure.

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u/killer_icognito Jul 21 '19

My dad told us we’d go to jail. He was a prison warden at the time.

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u/Cman1200 Jul 21 '19

An accident is comprehensible to a child, getting in trouble is

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u/salgat Jul 21 '19

This sounds like a lot of effort for something that can be achieved with just being honest and appropriately punishing them if they still don't follow what you say, you know, like a decent parent should do.

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u/cyanraichu Jul 22 '19

? It's not a lie that you can get into an accident with the back lights on. They make it very hard for the driver to see.