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Parents often use little fibs or white lies to get their kids to behave or to teach them important lessons. It’s been this way since the dawn of time, and there are certain universal white lies that have been passed down through generations. Your parents heard them growing up, you heard them growing up, and you told them to your kids. Here are some classic white lies our parents told us that shaped our childhood.
#1: “If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for seven years.”
This is one of the oldest myths around, and somehow, it still works on kids. According to the seven-years-gum myth, if you swallow gum, your body isn’t able to digest it for seven years. This is something our parents told us as kids to teach us that gum is only for chewing, or to scare us away from chewing gum altogether.
