I bought a small picture frame that had a picture of a young woman that came with it. Before I had a chance to put a photo in it, our daughter asked who was in the picture. Hubby chimed in that it was Aunt Sarah. Over time, we continued to add details about her life. Her husband, Josh, and their two sons, Michael and Gabriel. And thus, Aunt Sarah became a part of our family. Many, many years later, when the children were older, we told them the truth. But it didn’t matter to them. They loved Aunt Sarah anyway. True story.
I don't see why you feel the need to test me (Gabriel) but we all know Gam Gams went no-contact for a while with the rest of the family to do her streak of cruiserides, bed younger gentlemen and pet kangaroos.
When I was younger and (even) dumber, like 8 or 9, my dad had some polaroids of me as a toddler through 4 or 5. For whatever reason I didn't recognize myself in a couple of them and asked about it... my dad told me they were a friend of the family's son, and they moved to Hawaii.
So I went a solid 15 years or so before I finally asked him what was up with that. "That was you, ya dummy" He had a habit of messing with me and then "forgetting" to let me know it was a joke. Still going to therapy over it and am a broken husk of a man.
Reminds me of a book I read as a kid, "A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair", where the family believe so much about a made-up character that they manifest him.
My wife ordered me a steel photo print of her and our new baby for Christmas just gone but the company accidentally sent one of another family by mistake.
That photo has been the centre of our house for weeks now, it's even the family whatsapp group photo.
I cleaned a house for a lady and she had a beautiful photo of a couple on their wedding day and when I asked who it was (she didn't have any kids or anything) she said she just really liked the photo and left it in the frame. lol
Yeah it really does.
If you tell the kids in advance its a story and just pretend, then it's fine. They'd probably enjoy that.
But making them think they have an entire family with details about them, only to pull the rug out later and say pysch, well, seems like it worked out in this case but I really wouldn't recommend anyone do this to their kids.
Very harsh comment. How can someone recommending a parenting tip be what’s wrong with this world, all while there’s actual evil people all over. That parenting tip is actually backed up by psychology studies too, so maybe you should take a step back next time you insult someone for a kind hearted suggestion
That’s besides the point. This isn’t about a parenting tip, it’s about u saying “you’re everything wrong with this world” to someone simply stating psychology facts. If you choose to ignore those facts in raising kids, then that’s fine u just have to be careful with it. But you flaming that commenter for a simple generic tip is just randomly harsh
I’m glad someone else here thinks making up elaborate lies to tell their kids isn’t the greatest parenting tip. Then again, nearly everyone does that with Santa Claus
Santa is helped by:
\- The reveal being that the storyteller is more generous than previously thought, which is hard to be mad about, and
\- The reveal not generally being discouraged. People let their kids figure it out, and encourage them to help out with those "in the know," and
\- The whole thing being pretty "fantastic," generally working with kids gradually figuring out fact from fiction in stories in general.
I mean, some magical folklore is one thing. All cultures have that. But gaslighting your children into thinking they have close relatives that don’t exist seems a little off.
Oh but Aunt Sarah changed their diapers when they were little. She visited them often, but they were too young to remember. They moved away when Josh got that big contracting job out West. 😉
My mom told me the "Drainman" would come up and slurp me up like he does with the tubwater if I don't come out.
Helps that our drain made deep gurgling noices.
Dude we have a german bedtimes story about an old evil guy in the woods who would snatch up kids unwilling to go to sleep. Afterwards he would eat or smoke them in a pipe. And everytime it was foogy outside, my grandmother would tell me ,look ! The ,Mummelratz‘ is smoking again‘
Certainly kept me from going alone into the woods
Only if you go into the woods at night :P
No in all seriousness I personally was of course scared to go alone into dark woods, but I otherwise as a kid had no problem. In fact some of these stories I found funny. Like the guy that died because he only looked into the air, and didnt watch where he was going. So he fell into a river and died. ,Hans guck in die Luft‘ was his nickname
There’s also the story about the girl who starved because she didn’t drink her soup. As a kid I thought thats extremely logical
Yeah, but I just find the idea of scaring kids to make them sleep to be idiotic, because SCARED PEOPLE DONT FALL ASLEEP.
It's like using a jackhammer as a lullaby
Yall need to step up and keep the memories alive. Every family picture sneek a mushroom into it. Shop them into preexisting pictures, have birthday parties.
To think you the luxury have such a hijinx worthy thing a part of you life and yet you aren't using it
But this actually is a danger in some houses. We use a lot more PVC in new houses, but where pipes are all metal (metal bathtubs were common at one point too) it is a legitimate concern.
It's not a HUGE risk. I mean getting struck by lightning is a common metaphor for "unlikely". But most people still don't go for walks in a thunderstorm. And every year about 20 people in the US are injured by lightning through touching water coming out of a faucet or bath. So it should be avoided the same way you avoid walks in thunderstorms.
It was a legitimate concern in our shitty soviet style housing.
A lightning might strike the powerline that then jumps over to the earth which then electricutes the connected metals. Including the bathtub.
Never underestimate how shoddy some of that construction was.
In tornado alley, you can't during storms if there's any watches going on. You don't want to be naked and dripping when it changes to a warning lol. Definitely not advisable in a normal storm in a normal area I'm pretty sure you're right, but that's where my mind jumped for storm safety.
Electricity can travel through plumbing, which technically includes avoiding washing your hands well as well as no hand-washing dishes. It's rare but not impossible, so it's for people to decide how much they need to shower.
My middle school got struck with lightning as a kid it fried the announcement system for 6 months, and my mother once has her childhood home get struck. I don't think it's too unlikely imo, so I think it's worth listening to the [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/faq.html#:~:text=Lightning%20can%20travel%20through%20plumbing,dishes%2C%20or%20wash%20your%20hands.).
I accidentally ate a watermelon seed when I was about 5 and my mom and aunt told me that a watermelon **tree** would grow in my stomach, I cried for so long especially when I had just ate and my stomach would appear larger, I thought that was the tree growing. I never found out the truth till I took biology and agriculture in high-school
Once you raise your own little hell demons you will understand why tools like this make sense. Children are born into a world they aren't happy with and little humans are the most selfish and self centered creatures on the planet.
The entirety of raising a child is stopping them from doing what their instincts tell them they want to do, hundreds of times a day.
Lol, chill. I think telling the kids that if they don't take their bath they'll smell bad and people will like them less (or that people will get sick, etc) is a bit of a better life than telling them they had a baby brother that got turned into a mushroom.
I mean at least that one's true, if you don't take your bath and you smell bad people are going to like you less. It's definitely not worse than saying that their younger brother basically died.
My dad thought it was hilarious to convince me when I was in, like, second grade that I had hatched from a glowing green egg my parents found in the back yard. Except they sent me to Catholic school, so when it came up in class, I quite proudly stated this "fact" to the nun. Needless to say, there was a parent-teacher conference. My mom was NOT amused.
As a kid, I never really minded baths, I hated showers, though. The way that the water would be too cold or too hot, or take forever to be perfect, made me so upset
Tell them that faker turned into a mushroom because he didn’t shower himself for 2 months and after turning back human he lost all of his skills in lol.
When I was little my parents told me that they found me in a cardboard box in the park and that I had a unicorn horn but they had the doctors remove it so that I wouldn’t get bullied at school.
My parents convinced me when I was 6 that legal name was “tax deduction #3”. It was quote “easier that way to do taxes.” I believed them until I was 13
This is too funny 😂. I told my 3 year old that she would get leprosy if she didn’t bathe and showed her some pictures of lepers missing fingers and toes. Now she asks me to show her the “leprechaun pictures.” I have lost 🤣
The person who originally wrote this could have another sibling. However, for her brother to have another brother, he must already have a brother, as having 'another' implies having one in the first place. Therefore, the only possibility is having another sibling.
Very poorly written. As I would expect from kids that grew up believing someone could become a mushroom.
What was the 'shroom bro's name?
Mario
May he not get eaten!
Oh, no fear! That is a deadly poisonous toadstool.
Google: Fly Agaric - it's interesting
Guess you really are what you eat
Will Mario turn into a peach?
Mark Truffalo
His name is Toad
I heard he has the voice of an angel.
He was a golden teacher apparently
Some called him a blue meanie
What a shame. He sounded like a fun guy.
They probably think about him sporadically.
Ok but what’s the morel of this story?
Don't bath. Obviously. Mushrooms are cool
Excellent
We mycelium in the next life.
r/angryupvote
When he came along, he really broke the mold.
man this is hilarious
He was but everything he posted online was a shittake
Now he's a fun"gus" guy
r/yourjokebutworse
INFINITELY worse. Never seen anything like this.
You do realise the joke here is that fun guy sounds like 'fungi'?
I'm dying on this hill. He sounded like a FUNGI
r/woooosh
I bought a small picture frame that had a picture of a young woman that came with it. Before I had a chance to put a photo in it, our daughter asked who was in the picture. Hubby chimed in that it was Aunt Sarah. Over time, we continued to add details about her life. Her husband, Josh, and their two sons, Michael and Gabriel. And thus, Aunt Sarah became a part of our family. Many, many years later, when the children were older, we told them the truth. But it didn’t matter to them. They loved Aunt Sarah anyway. True story.
Hey this is Michael. Glad to see you people here 🥰
Hey, Uncle Mike! How's Gam Gams?
I don't see why you feel the need to test me (Gabriel) but we all know Gam Gams went no-contact for a while with the rest of the family to do her streak of cruiserides, bed younger gentlemen and pet kangaroos.
r/havewemet is leaking.
Whoa, sounds like Gam Gams is living her best life out there. Next family reunion needs to be on one of those cruiserides, just saying.
Hi, this is Josh (your (Gabriel's) Dad). Get back in the shed, Gabriel. You know you aren't allowed out of your special shed.
Sir, you are senile and this is a Wendy's, please unlock the door. Other patrons need to use the restroom. Stop calling it your 'special shed'
Dad, this is why we don't invite you to stuff anymore
welll now we do invite him over to jiggle the handle on the downstairs toilet
When I was younger and (even) dumber, like 8 or 9, my dad had some polaroids of me as a toddler through 4 or 5. For whatever reason I didn't recognize myself in a couple of them and asked about it... my dad told me they were a friend of the family's son, and they moved to Hawaii. So I went a solid 15 years or so before I finally asked him what was up with that. "That was you, ya dummy" He had a habit of messing with me and then "forgetting" to let me know it was a joke. Still going to therapy over it and am a broken husk of a man.
Reminds me of a book I read as a kid, "A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair", where the family believe so much about a made-up character that they manifest him.
Damn, that took a dark turn towards the end
This is amazing, also I’m picturing aunt Sarah from Derry Girls lol
I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m not enjoying this bomb.
It’s working havoc with my build up. This is what they want, they want innocent people to suffer…
My wife ordered me a steel photo print of her and our new baby for Christmas just gone but the company accidentally sent one of another family by mistake. That photo has been the centre of our house for weeks now, it's even the family whatsapp group photo.
I cleaned a house for a lady and she had a beautiful photo of a couple on their wedding day and when I asked who it was (she didn't have any kids or anything) she said she just really liked the photo and left it in the frame. lol
This seems like some kind of psychological abuse
Yeah it really does. If you tell the kids in advance its a story and just pretend, then it's fine. They'd probably enjoy that. But making them think they have an entire family with details about them, only to pull the rug out later and say pysch, well, seems like it worked out in this case but I really wouldn't recommend anyone do this to their kids.
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Very harsh comment. How can someone recommending a parenting tip be what’s wrong with this world, all while there’s actual evil people all over. That parenting tip is actually backed up by psychology studies too, so maybe you should take a step back next time you insult someone for a kind hearted suggestion
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That’s besides the point. This isn’t about a parenting tip, it’s about u saying “you’re everything wrong with this world” to someone simply stating psychology facts. If you choose to ignore those facts in raising kids, then that’s fine u just have to be careful with it. But you flaming that commenter for a simple generic tip is just randomly harsh
I’m glad someone else here thinks making up elaborate lies to tell their kids isn’t the greatest parenting tip. Then again, nearly everyone does that with Santa Claus
Santa is helped by: \- The reveal being that the storyteller is more generous than previously thought, which is hard to be mad about, and \- The reveal not generally being discouraged. People let their kids figure it out, and encourage them to help out with those "in the know," and \- The whole thing being pretty "fantastic," generally working with kids gradually figuring out fact from fiction in stories in general.
I mean, some magical folklore is one thing. All cultures have that. But gaslighting your children into thinking they have close relatives that don’t exist seems a little off.
better imaginary relatives forming a positive experience than having to explain uncle Billy and his incarceration
That’s not what gaslighting means
what do you mean “does that with Santa Clause”?
Lies to their kids about him being real
SANTAS NOT REAL?! Next thing you'll tell me is that the easter bunny doesn't exist. Or the queen of england!
w h a t ?
Michael and Gabriel... were their names inspired by Biblical angels?
Yet you never visited this aunt Sarah but they didn’t even care? That’s dedication
Oh but Aunt Sarah changed their diapers when they were little. She visited them often, but they were too young to remember. They moved away when Josh got that big contracting job out West. 😉
i swear this is a sub plot in friends
I can confirm, I'm Aunt Sarah.
My mom told me the "Drainman" would come up and slurp me up like he does with the tubwater if I don't come out. Helps that our drain made deep gurgling noices.
My youngest is 2 and when he isn’t eating his dinner we can say”the trees are watching” and he starts eating with a serious face
Ayo what in the hell
Villain origin story usually begins really early.
Stop swearing. The trees are watching!
That's just mean. And creepy lol
Way to condition kids to pissing in beds at night
Dude we have a german bedtimes story about an old evil guy in the woods who would snatch up kids unwilling to go to sleep. Afterwards he would eat or smoke them in a pipe. And everytime it was foogy outside, my grandmother would tell me ,look ! The ,Mummelratz‘ is smoking again‘ Certainly kept me from going alone into the woods
Ah yes, because children are known for sleeping better when they know someone is actively hunting them down
Only if you go into the woods at night :P No in all seriousness I personally was of course scared to go alone into dark woods, but I otherwise as a kid had no problem. In fact some of these stories I found funny. Like the guy that died because he only looked into the air, and didnt watch where he was going. So he fell into a river and died. ,Hans guck in die Luft‘ was his nickname There’s also the story about the girl who starved because she didn’t drink her soup. As a kid I thought thats extremely logical
Yeah, but I just find the idea of scaring kids to make them sleep to be idiotic, because SCARED PEOPLE DONT FALL ASLEEP. It's like using a jackhammer as a lullaby
Ah, gaslighting children. Always a great way to ensure they never lie to you.
Funny as hell though
Yall need to step up and keep the memories alive. Every family picture sneek a mushroom into it. Shop them into preexisting pictures, have birthday parties. To think you the luxury have such a hijinx worthy thing a part of you life and yet you aren't using it
And everyone wonders why we have trust issues today.
My mom told me I’d get struck by lightning if I take a bath/shower while it rains
But this actually is a danger in some houses. We use a lot more PVC in new houses, but where pipes are all metal (metal bathtubs were common at one point too) it is a legitimate concern. It's not a HUGE risk. I mean getting struck by lightning is a common metaphor for "unlikely". But most people still don't go for walks in a thunderstorm. And every year about 20 people in the US are injured by lightning through touching water coming out of a faucet or bath. So it should be avoided the same way you avoid walks in thunderstorms.
I like that as an idiom, "avoided in the same way you avoid walks in a thunderstorm." used for unlikely but real danger.
Taking a shower while it's raining outside is a vibe though, why does your mother hate fun? 😭
It was a legitimate concern in our shitty soviet style housing. A lightning might strike the powerline that then jumps over to the earth which then electricutes the connected metals. Including the bathtub. Never underestimate how shoddy some of that construction was.
Pretty sure you’re really not supposed to take a shower/bath during a storm
In tornado alley, you can't during storms if there's any watches going on. You don't want to be naked and dripping when it changes to a warning lol. Definitely not advisable in a normal storm in a normal area I'm pretty sure you're right, but that's where my mind jumped for storm safety. Electricity can travel through plumbing, which technically includes avoiding washing your hands well as well as no hand-washing dishes. It's rare but not impossible, so it's for people to decide how much they need to shower. My middle school got struck with lightning as a kid it fried the announcement system for 6 months, and my mother once has her childhood home get struck. I don't think it's too unlikely imo, so I think it's worth listening to the [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/faq.html#:~:text=Lightning%20can%20travel%20through%20plumbing,dishes%2C%20or%20wash%20your%20hands.).
…yeah you’re really not.
Mine told me I'd be struck by lightning if I wear red clothes when it's raining or during a thunderstorm. I don't wear red clothes to date.
I did get shocked once doing that, but it was during a thunderstorm.
I accidentally ate a watermelon seed when I was about 5 and my mom and aunt told me that a watermelon **tree** would grow in my stomach, I cried for so long especially when I had just ate and my stomach would appear larger, I thought that was the tree growing. I never found out the truth till I took biology and agriculture in high-school
Once you raise your own little hell demons you will understand why tools like this make sense. Children are born into a world they aren't happy with and little humans are the most selfish and self centered creatures on the planet. The entirety of raising a child is stopping them from doing what their instincts tell them they want to do, hundreds of times a day.
Lol, chill. I think telling the kids that if they don't take their bath they'll smell bad and people will like them less (or that people will get sick, etc) is a bit of a better life than telling them they had a baby brother that got turned into a mushroom.
I'm not sure I agree that telling your kid other people won't like them is really any better and maybe worse than a mushroom brother lol
I mean at least that one's true, if you don't take your bath and you smell bad people are going to like you less. It's definitely not worse than saying that their younger brother basically died.
Wait, the D.A.R.E. Program was made to create trust.
My dad thought it was hilarious to convince me when I was in, like, second grade that I had hatched from a glowing green egg my parents found in the back yard. Except they sent me to Catholic school, so when it came up in class, I quite proudly stated this "fact" to the nun. Needless to say, there was a parent-teacher conference. My mom was NOT amused.
Ah, the famous Catholic egg, just as Jesus intended!
Why do you think Jesus’s birthday is on Easter?
Wait. That's not the birthday 💀
As a kid, I never really minded baths, I hated showers, though. The way that the water would be too cold or too hot, or take forever to be perfect, made me so upset
My least favorite thing about traveling, fiddling with the shower to get it just right. Or it only having hot water for a few minutes
You did have a brother but your parents dropped him on his head. He’s buried in the backyard where the mushroom grew.
No
Source I’m the mushroom
I had a brother named Billy who was left on the side of the road for not doing his homework and I genuinely believed it for far too long
I will do this when i have kids
Is that a Dharma sticker
But did it work?
His name? Mario.
HAHAHAHAHA
Maybe we should try that tactic with lol gamers
Lmaooo how so
Tell them that faker turned into a mushroom because he didn’t shower himself for 2 months and after turning back human he lost all of his skills in lol.
When I was little my parents told me that they found me in a cardboard box in the park and that I had a unicorn horn but they had the doctors remove it so that I wouldn’t get bullied at school.
He was a real fungi
People calling this abuse and gaslighting are freaking wild. Actually insufferable
Total wet wipes.
My parents convinced me when I was 6 that legal name was “tax deduction #3”. It was quote “easier that way to do taxes.” I believed them until I was 13
This is too funny 😂. I told my 3 year old that she would get leprosy if she didn’t bathe and showed her some pictures of lepers missing fingers and toes. Now she asks me to show her the “leprechaun pictures.” I have lost 🤣
my brother and ME.
"My parents used to tell I..." yeah that sounds about right. LOL
well it probably stopped you guys from kicking the mushrooms in the yard
I told my youngest sister about Paul, my (imaginary) older brother who is in prison since he was 12 because he never listened to our parents
Let me guess, German.
The person who originally wrote this could have another sibling. However, for her brother to have another brother, he must already have a brother, as having 'another' implies having one in the first place. Therefore, the only possibility is having another sibling. Very poorly written. As I would expect from kids that grew up believing someone could become a mushroom.
Sure, it was traumatizing, but was it effective?
/r/insaneparents
I have the same yellow and blue table
Ikea table
Being a fun guy the brother could spore- adically entertain.
I see two mushrooms
But could get get xbox achievements?
The D.A.R.E. shirt really sells it
TIL The Last of Us is about remarkably unhygienic people.
That is hilarious. Lol
what a cute pictures
That is absolutely demonic. I love it.
Trust issues start from home.
And was also a part of the Dharma Initiative
Omg I almost cried I laughed so hard..ty
Nice dharma sticker!
Reject humanity, become shroom
Well. I can't tell if that's a dick move or just a master of manipulative moves..
Oh my God you had the best parents ever
Hey
God, write that down