I-95 Listeners Share Little White Lies Their Parents Told Them

JStew: Probably the greatest lie my mom ever told was when I got my first drum set for Christmas when I was a kid. She had me convinved she bought my sister some kind of floor to ceiling plant stand for my sister's dorm room. But needed to hide it in my room to set it up on Christmas Eve. She even went so far as to close the curtain in my room so I couldn't see it from the outside, and wrapped the door in wrapping paper so I couldn't get a peek. She knew I'd want to see this monstrosity that had been hiding in my room all day. Needless to say, I had no clue being a gullible 12 year old. 100% fooled.

Cori: The only thing I really remember my mom saying, over and over again, when I was a kid (and it turned out not to be true-at least in my case) was "Eat less, move more and you'll lose weight!" Now, in all fairness to her, she was a ballet dancer/teacher, so in her mind, that was a successful protocol that had worked in her own experience. For me....not so much. Now, as a mom myself, I laugh because I eat way less than I ever did (mostly the crusts and left-overs of whatever my kids don't finish) and move all the time--maybe not in an athletic way, but have you ever cleaned a house 4 kids have trashed while simultaneously trying to prevent them from messing up what you just fixed. I mean, I'll never be a Ninja Warrior, but I feel like I'm in training for it every day! The sheer fact that people's genetics, metabolism and hormones (not to mention stress levels and sleep--or in my case, the lack-there-of) have a lot more to do with someone's weight than how much they eat and move may have not been as well studied back in the day, but I have found that to be one of the only real "lies" my mom ever passed along.

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