What lies did your parents tell you as a child?

When I was a child (4-12 years old) I was very problematic, I had severe hyperactivity problems that even with medication I couldn't control, so I gave my parents a lot of hard time when I went out with them. I was such a problem child that sometimes people would call me on my cell phone to tell me that they were working at an orphanage, and that if I continued to behave badly they would come and get me at home. In addition, every time we went shopping my parents threatened to send me to an orphanage called ICEL if I broke anything or behaved badly, so when we went shopping at the mall and I saw the stands with the ICEL logo I would panic and do whatever my parents told me to do. Years later, I realized that ICEL was a vocational school and that the people who called me were friends of my parents

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