10 Ways Your Parents Tricked You When You Were A Baby

When you were a toddler, your parents were as manipulative as they could get. There were several reasons but the major one was that you were a big pain in the ass.

Toddlers do not see reason. The only way our poor parents could reasons with us when we were toddlers was manipulation.

And the number of innovative techniques, they never ceased to surprise even themselves.

1. “Open your mouth! Here comes the aeroplane!”

Or, “Open the tunnel! Here comes the train! Choo choo!”

And we used to happily open our mouths to let the plane in, only to find that we were cheated, and fed that tasteless baby food!

But it was okay, since another plane was on its way! Maybe it will have better food!

 

2. “LOL! Nothing happened! Nothing!”

Whenever a baby falls down, and they fall down so much, and if the fall is bad, the baby will cry. Our parents are smart and we were stupid as toddlers. If we see them laughing after we fell down, we thought it was a funny thing! Even if it hurt, and we did not cry at all.

Most of us were just confused – “It hurts, but they are laughing, and I want to cry, but they are laughing so hard, so I will just laugh. LOL!”

 

3. Hitting non-living things to make you feel better

Again, if you tripped over something or just fell generally, they would just start hitting the floor or that table on which you banged your head. Somehow it made you feel better because you didn’t know that that table cannot feel the beating it is getting.

So you go – Serves you right Mr. Table! Why did you hit me on my head when I fell on you!? Why!?

 

4. “Eat your food! Or Gabbar aa jayega!”

The usual scary things were – Chudail, Tiger, Gabbar, Watchman uncle and Bhoot. The chudail would take away the baby and raise it as a witch, the tiger would eat you, with Gabbar you end up as a bandit and the bhoot will do god-knows-what. You knew all this and it scared the living daylights out of you.

“I will eat it! I will eat all the food, but please don’t let that chudail in!”

 

5. “Udhar dekho!” while getting injections

Those injections hurt, especially when you were just a toddler, and your parents had a neat trick up their sleeve to deal with this.

“Udhar dekho (look over there!) aeroplane! Helicopter!”

“Where? where?!”

And when the injection is given, “Oh damn, it is gone. It is OK, you will see it the next time.”

 

6. “Magic pill! Orange Juice!”

Medicinal pills taste horrible, so they would dissolve it in water or just call it a magic pill. With syrups, they called it orange juice.

“It will make you stronger! Give you power! Don’t you want to be stronger?!”

“Yes, father! I want to be strong! I will eat the pill! I will drink orange juice that doesn’t taste anything like orange juice!”

 

7. “If you do not do XYZ, you will not get any chocolate!”

If you do not put all your toys in that basket you will not get any chocolate!

“OOOH! Chocolate! I will put all the toys wherever you want mommy!”

It was mind control.

 

8. “OMG! You are the best! First prize!” After you cleaned something

Basically, any good thing you did was rewarded with all the sweetest compliments they could give.

And, in the end, you felt like you were the best in the whole wide world for doing that chore.

 

9. “Your G I Joe/Barbie went home! Go to sleep!”

Remember when you just didn’t want to stop playing with your toys and didn’t want to go to sleep at all? And your parents just told you they went home.

“Yes, the toys have a home and they just went back to it because this is his day job and every hour extra, we have to pay him more money! Go to sleep!”

 

10. “If you do not brush your teeth you will wake up in another place!”

I hated brushing my teeth when I was a kid, and I didn’t know how to do it either. So my mom would hold me in one place and brush my teeth while I did everything to escape her grip. Then she would just give me this science fiction story where I would just wake up in another place if I didn’t brush my teeth.

A rip in spacetime! All you have to do to travel through space without moving was to not brush your teeth!

Do you remember any other techniques we haven’t mentioned here? Share your memories. 🙂

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