Indian moms are crazy. Years ago their parenting included making the kids scared of stuffs. There are many things that I know now are bullshit, but a decade ago I was shit scared of it all.
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The list in unending, but I would want to tell you about how my mom taught us to spit out the seeds when we ate fruits. We as kids would never see the seeds and would munch on the entire fruit, my mom, maybe, wanted to ensure that it doesn't clog our esophagus so she told us that eating the seeds would make it germinate inside our tummy making it's way out either through our mouth or through the navel.
We kids were naive then without Google. I don't know about other kids, but I was undoubtedly scared of carrying a huge tree coming out of my navel. Eating fruits was a task for me. I had to be extra extra careful. However, I must have eaten many seeds before I was made aware of this misconception so that gave me nightmares.
Few days ago I reminded her how she used to fool us a d we had a good laugh.