Rolling your eyes at your parents is an important part of growing up – you spend your childhood believing every single thing they said, and then something clicks and you realise they’ve been feeding you little lies.
The Twitter hashtag #DumbThingsMyParentsSaid proves this point – and makes for interesting reading. However, you might be inclined to give them a bit more sympathy now you realise how stressed and knackered they must have been looking after kids.
At the same time, we’ve all spent a lot more time being people’s children than people’s parents, so it’s hard not to side with the kids who had to put up with this idiocy.