Parents Online Reveal 30 Little Lies They Tell Their Kids That They’re Considering Parenting Hacks

Also interchangeable with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Halloween Ghosts.

Let me guess - noisy toy?

Not only their teeth will benefit from that good habbit ;)

also you dont want to poop in the middle of a routine

So we sleep with our eyes open now?

I told my daughter she had to eat as much vegetables and fruit as she ate junk to counteract the junk food. She'd fill up on fruit and vegetables and be too full for any junk food. I think that's why she's a vegetarian now too

I'm writing this down

well at least thats a cute story

Genius

My girls were about eight before they could cross a street without holding the hand of an adult. They never asked about rules or anything, that's just how things ARE.

19?!!

That is a clever one

Ah, dad tax. Nothing better.

My parents told me this one. 🥲

That's actually cruel :P

We have a sandwich van comes round to the local businesses. Recently he has gone from ice cream van music to a rather jangly version of "food glorious food". I am tempted to go out to tell him "well, you've changed your tune!".

If you are over 45 and from the UK you will know the joke that when ever an emergency vehicle speeds past with its siren on......"He's never gonna sell any ice-cream goign that fast!"

My Mum told me it couldn't stop on a hill as the ice cream runs out of the machine

Just have to set ground rules. You can have ice cream on Saturday and Wednesday. Then that's it. That's the rule. Enforce it, and the whining will stop.

My mother just said no. Simple.

So they never get ice cream?

That was a joke in everybody lovesRaymond. Robert's mom told him that.

LOL one of my friends legit still thought that. We were 18 years old!!! lol her mom had told her that!! My mom told us that McDonald's wasn't a real place, it was just a TV show (this was in the 70's) and wed drive by one and she'd tell us "that's where they film the show" lol. Cut to: I end up working in film production and I'm on a McD's commercial and there actually is a fake McD's that they film the commercials at lol

my mom called the music truck so I thought ice cream trucks were only in movies -_-

my mum told us this one, and one time we head the music, went out to meet the truck, and it was ACTUALLY OUT.

What a bunch of AH parents. It was a special treat to get it from the GHumor driver. many times we did not have the change "ready" and they would have to wait for next time. Or the answer was not this time. But allowance was allowed to be spent and sticky messes were to be made and then washed off with a squirt from the cold hose. Some fun memories were made those days.

You sick bastard. You probably tell them that Disneyland Left.

We said this to our daughter too - eliminated SOOO much whining!

Not too similar but made me think of it as I was the top bunk ( and the older) sister! Our mum used to tell me that it's really bad luck to go to bed with the wardrobes or the drawers in your bedroom left open. Like, you'd get nightmares or just bad luck the next day. So this seemed perfectly rationally to me well into my adult years (I guess as much as any other superstition would) A couple of years ago I asked her where that superstition came from and she said, "oh, it was just to make you tidy up and put everything away before you went to bed." And it bloody worked. I'm in my 30's now and still do it out of habit! Sneaky mum.

Granny Weatherwax had this issue, legitimate problem for some people.

Heaven forbid we just tell kids they are not allowed to watch tv whenever they want.

That's precious

Nah mate, that’s the button that makes the car explode ;)

Lava cake 🤤

Not sure if this is good....

they were some kids that broke the law and went in so they had to put signs to make sure every one knows

in elder days before Netflix and tablets, primitive men, would posses hard copies of movies and music. this primitiv people would sometimes go places were there was no signal and nobody knew what parents and their children did for hours...it was a short and brutish life

Ehm. There actually are cakes which are sensitive to vibrations, no? Loud noises and especially stomping can make them deflate, or am I mistaken?

Evilly perfect

I don't even see the point of this lie.. he could have just as easily pointed to the engine temperature gauge and said when the car is "in the warm area"...

Eyes in the black of my head trick worked for a while. She would be amazed especially in the car. She did not know i could see her in the rearview mirror. Even when she was still backwards in her car seat.

How to generate trust issues. Lesson #1.

The roadside panhandler obviously sells pans (joke)

That would have made me deliberately leave toys out, so they would have something to play with and so that they would like me

Hey guess what, smart people watch tv too.

dude, builderman died long ago

There ya go, that's how you do it.

What is the reason to tell Kids this? Fear of suffocating?

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