Huge chance you heard several of these when you were growing up .
Growing up our parents tell us a bunch of things that ultimately end up not being true. For example, there was the classic one where apparently drug dealers will give you free drugs to get you hooked that any kid who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s probably heard from their parents — and probably D.A.R.E., too.
And recently, Reddit userhightreezwanted to know what those things were when theyaskedthis question in ther/Millennialssubreddit: “What is something your parents engrained in you that you now realize is ridiculous?”
1.“That it was illegal to turn the interior lights of the car on while driving.”
— mishka _ _
2.“That thing where they’re like ‘respect is earned, not given.’ Biggest horseshit I’ve ever heard.”
— Dracasethaen
3.“That perfectionism is the standard. Things aren’t worth doing unless you do them so thoroughly and perfectly that you basically are never done editing. Helllllloooooo, burnout!”
— trialanderror13
4.“A 10-hour car ride with only one bathroom break is normal.”
— Pawsacrossamerica
5.“Being a member of the clean plate club is not the badge of honor I was told it was.”
— KirdyB
6.“Living together before marriage is wrong, wrong, wrong on all levels. Not only is it a sin, but it proves the old expression of ‘Why buy the cow when you can get the milk free.’ I’m very thankful I didn’t live by this. I would have had a nasty divorce instead of just a difficult break-up.”
— TXteachr2018
7.“That you must have a ‘valid’ reason for everything you do. ‘Because I want to’ or ‘because it makes me happy’ are not valid reasons.”
— Pandamonium - N - Doom
8.“Make sure to tell your boss that you want to work all the weekends, evenings and holidays so that they know you really care about your job.”
— OverallContest6485
9.“That I don’t need to learn to cook or do laundry because ‘my wife will do that stuff when I get married.’ I went off to college having no clue how to do laundry and I didn’t learn how to do the most basic of cooking until my 20s. My 3-year-old literally helps with laundry and cooking more than I ever got to do my 18 years of living at home.”
— PNWHikingGuy
10.“That EMTs care about your bra and underwear matching.”
— WandaDobby777
11.“Calling everyday when you apply for a job, totally horseshit but I f’ing did it for like five years after leaving home. Anything concerning work culture honestly.”
— Fantastic_Art_5663
12.“You must conform and appear ‘normal,’ otherwise someone might judge you as ‘weird’ and that’s just the worst thing that could possibly happen.”
— brilliantpants
13.“That you get theflufrom getting head wet in the rain or from not wearing a thick jacket, smh, smh.”
— indichick1991
14.“Stay with one company and be loyal and they’ll appreciate you and pay you more.”
— TheAtticusBlake
15.“IDK if this is my parents, but other adults said coffee stunts your growth which is bullshit.”
— Wallflower_in_PDX
16.“That ‘therapists just find ways to blame the parents.'”
— Rough_Elk_3952
17."‘Work hard and you will be rewarded.’ And I somehow continued to believe that crap long after they themselves established a pattern of never rewarding my hard work, while harshly punishing my failures."
— N_Who
18.“That you willdrown and dieif you swim after you eat.”
— orneryoneesan
19.“I was told, over and over, ‘Just wait until you are a parent!!! Then you will understand!!’ Now I’m a parent and have fully concluded they were just trying to mask their insecurities with gaslighting.”
— Additional - Sky-7436
20.And lastly, “The mystical ‘permanent record lie.’ If I got a detention, speeding ticket, any sort of ticket actually, it’d go on my permanent record and I’d never get into college or get a good job. It was the blanket fear approach instead of using truthful, realistic consequences for those situations.”
— OSimplySimps
You can read the full thread of responses onReddit.
Note : Some response have been cut for distance and/or clarity .
