**Steem4nigeria. Accelerator contest week 63:The lies I grew up believing

Hello everyone, greetings to you all. I'm writing about the lies I believed while growing up.

Growing up as a child, people had told me numerous lies in order to make me depart from what I intended to do or to make me believe things following my childhood mentality.

WHAT WERE THE LIES YOU BELIEVED WHILE GROWING UP

As a child, I was told that whenever I eat any fruit and when I mistakenly swallow the seed, It will germinate from my head. And whenever I picture the scene, I'm always likely to be scared and I'll do everything within my power to prevent swallowing seeds. And sometimes, when I mistakenly swallow the seed, I always cry my eyes out believing that after some days, I'll look like a human with a growing tree on her head 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

*** I also had this believe that as a girl child, when ever you communicate with a male , you are likely to become pregnant. So I was asked to stay away from them, which I did .

*** I also believe all this moonlight stories that talks about tortoise, how tricky and cunning they were. And I grew up believing that tortoise are actually what people says they were, i.e they can talk, and they are also trickish.

*** I was also told that whenever I'm eating, I shouldn't keep my hands on the ground because it will make the food I eat become a waste, they said all the food will go into the ground ( Funny) . I never knew they said all that to make me sit in a good posture of eating. And also they told me that whenever I'm eating and a piece of my food fall down, that I shouldn't carry them because the devil that lives in the ground had already eaten the food.

*** I also believed that whenever it's raining. I shouldn't wear necklace, earrings or hold anything that is of metal, if not when there's a lightening, I would be striked by it or whenever there's a lightening, I should claps my lips together soon I won't be affected by the lightening.

WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION AFTER FINDING OUT THE TRUTH AS AN ADULT?

Growing up, I realized the truth bit by bit . I realized that I was been fooled and I find it very funny. Discovering the truth about the lies I was told really made me feel the mentality of a child, how children reason and I couldn't even imagine myself believing all those lies. The funniest part thing is , at then, I took the lies so serious and I was even advising my friends that what is been said is the truth and that they should follow that part.

DO YOU SUBSCRIBE TO TELLING LIES TO YOUNG MINDS IN A BID TO PROTECT THEM OR YOU CHOOSE TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE.

IF I have young ones around me, I'll prefer telling them lies because children seems to be very stubborn and if a person doesn't use that method, they won't learn , they'll keep on doing what they are told not to do. So in order not toN stress yourself, you tell them lies and it'll scare them.

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