Parents say many things to their children. Often it’s for their own good, other times it’s just to terrify the little blighters. Why? Probably just for the lulz. There’s a few gathered below.

Always eat your greens, they say. Or bad things will happen.

The television will make your eyes go square.

Masturbation will make you go blind.

Be good, Santa won’t come.

Don’t pull faces, when the wind changes you will be forever stuck.

If you’re not quiet the bogeyman will get you.

Laugh before breakfast and it will end in tears before dinner.

She that pricks bread with fork or knife will never be a happy maid or wife.

Stepping on ants brings rain.

The white bird foretells death.

-Thom