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Sometimes parents lie to their kids to keep them safe. Sometimes they lie to keep things fun. Sometimes they just wanna be absolute douches.

They just want to keep their kids safe...

Just because something is legal to do, does not mean it's the right thing to do. Here are some serious A-holes who sadly got what they wanted.

The real challenge is not letting the kid know they're being funny. Kids can't know that yelling obscenities in a crowded bookstore is hilarious. It'd totally throw off their priorities.

Old people are trying their best to catch up to with the times and use Facebook correctly. Progress is not without its speed bumps.

Kids may have their own agenda of eating candy for dinner and crying a lot, but that doesn't mean their parents can't come back with some cleverly manipulative firepower. Holy crap kids are dumb. 

When you spend a lot of time around a small group of people, you start to develop...shall we say, eccentricities?

You might find that you yourself believed some of these dumb things for a while, or even to this day. But hopefully not the bear one. The bear one is just plain dumb.

As much as you'd like to ask "what were they thinking," they are asking that themselves.

"No swearing in front of my parents" is pretty common and easy to follow, but these people had some brushes with true obsessive craziness.

Good or bad, these moms have done some bonkers shit.

These people made great sacrifices for their fellow man.

Ah, the old days. Back when life was simple. You could take candy from strangers, no one wore seatbelts and teachers could hit kids. Why did things ever change.

The jury isn't out on whether allergies exist. Most people understand that. Most.

It's hard to stay professional when customers are being hilarious and/or awful, but these people remained calm, for the most part.

Maybe your parents lied to you, maybe you were reading a discredited book, or maybe you heard it on the playground. We've got a lot of erroneous garbage banging around our noggins.