Things you believed as a kid

[Amaterasu]

A good few things I falsely believed could be pinned on my parents. Sometimes you just gotta lie to kids to make them stop doing stuff.

My parents taught us that eating more than one or two bananas in a day would make us sick. Apparently we liked bananas and a whole bunch would be gone overnight otherwise. There are probably other examples of this, but bananas really stick in my mind. They told us the same thing about chewable vitamins, though that is more understandable.

My parents also taught  us "if you take medicine when you're not sick, you'll get sick". The general idea here is solid advice, but I interpreted that as you'll come down with whatever the medicine was supposed to treat. Like if I ate a cough drop I'd get a sore throat, etc.

Double negatives make a positive, maybe? I believed something similar as a kid, that medicine is poisonous unless you are sick with that exact sickness that it treats. I made up in my head that medicine is a poison against the virus that is in your system, but if there is no virus to attack it hurts your body instead.