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Santa, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny are just a few of the lies parents tell their kids. They’re innocent, and sometimes a little white lie can save the day when a child refuses to eat anything but plain pasta or thinks that putting on a hat is the most offensive thing in the world. Parents can get really creative if it means that they have to defuse fewer tantrums, and the examples you’ll find below are perfect proof of that. Scroll down to find some of the funniest and biggest lies parents have told their kids, and don’t forget to upvote those you might be using next time your little one tries to test you.
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#1
When new teeth grow in, I told her that they create new tastes. Now she tries to figure out which new foods she will like every time a new tooth comes in.
Nina 4 months ago
Yes, I really like it. Creative and not harmful (she won't get traumatised when she finds out it was a lie).
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#2
She's older now, and knows that it's a lie, but I used to change the name of foods. She didn't like tomato soup, but loved ketchup soup. She wouldn't try lasagna, but spaghetti cake is her fave food lol
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
I mix stuff like that in stews lol ,event now my kids are 21-24 ,the eldest lass , is bloody fussy , won’t eat venison ,but loves BEEF stew 😂minus the veg , I love rabbit stew but can’t get it around here I’m housebound n the sticks , n I can’t get wild ones either , there is way to myxomatosis around here so not safe ,but the one time I did have one heatproof back again I made a stew n called it beef 🤷♀️works a treat ,
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Huddo's sister 4 months ago
My sister would eat mashed potato but not pumpkin, so my mum mixed the two together and made 'fluffy yellow clouds' which she loved. She also called chicken loaf 'white ham' which is funny because now she eats chicken loaf, but not ham!
#3
Raised my kids to know that parents have to send Santa money for toys/presents. That’s why some kids get a lot and some don’t. At 17 and 13, they never brag about gifts until they know what everyone else recieved.
Mari 4 months ago
I teached my kids that they have to be happy with every gift they receive. If it is something they don't like, they can give it to someone else who will be happy with it. And that the hapiness of someone else is also a gift for them. They never complain about gifts and like to give surprises to others.
Emma London 4 months ago
In my family the story is that every kid gets a number of gifts from santa, but then also friends and realtives add to the gifts. That explains why different kids get a different amount of gifts.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
See this is one lie I refused to tell my kids , in fact bar calling venison or rabbit ,beef in stews lol ,I wasn’t lied to over the Santa c**p ,or the bloody tooth fairy , we didn’t back in my day , so I refused to lie to my own kids , step kids I had to go with what the mother said quite rightly so ! Cos I bought my kids up NEVER TO LIE to me , I’m a human lie detector , always have been , so no point trying around me , you can’t expect to teach kids one thing ,while living to them now can you , n. O Santa is not a harmless white lie !! It’s full on lying end off , that said I and my kids always have a wonderful Xmas , just that now they 21-24 they both have respect for money n presents , always have had , so have I , n I’m now 60 ,sorry if people think it’s wrong , idk lol us wiccans don’t do Xmas like others do , 🤷♀️oh n once ,the kids have tried the venison , rabbit or pigeon, bar my son he eats every thing lol ,I ask if they liked it , yup loved it , then I tell them what it was
OneWithRatsAndKefir 4 months ago
I’m usually not one for white lies either, but I think Santa can be done carefully like the parent did above. People have always loved stories and myths, and children are no different; I see it as letting them live a story and be more in touch with the mysteries and possibilities of nature. But I genuinely respect your viewpoint and find it fascinating :)
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When their tablets need updating I have to mail it directly to Amazon and we have no clue how long it will take days,weeks or months. In reality they are in my closet and I just want them outside catching toads and bugs. 🤣🤣🤣
#5
Our sons didn't eat cooked onions ( in casserole, etc l.). " It's not onion. It's Japanese Clearfruit." They cleaned their plates.
Luke Branwen 4 months ago
😁 Ok, I'm approppriating Japanese clearfruit. To be fair, I also used to hate onions until my mid-20s. Now I love cooking with them.
#6
That if we saw the moon - it would follow us home to make sure we made it safely. My daughter believed this until like middle school and still talks about it
#7
My step son is an extremely picky eater but very much a foodie. He loves watching cooking shows and Gordon Ramsay. So now every time I try a new recipe, I tell him it’s Gordon Ramsay recipe (even if it’s not)😂😂 falls for it every time! Now he will eat just about anything😂
#8
We told our daughter she couldn’t go to Disney World unless she learned how to go potty in the toilet. We told her Mickey doesn’t allow diapers.
Dorothy Reiser 4 months ago
My boy had Superman underwear. I just told him not to pee on Superman. It worked.
Uncle Panda 4 months ago (edited)
At a 4- year old's birthday party, a kid I didn't know suddenly announced to me "I'M WEARING SPIDERMAN UNDERWEAR!", to which I immediately responded, "ME TOO!" and thus entered into the family lore of people I don't know.
#9
My mom told me that coffee stunted your growth. One day, working as a dental assistant at 20, my patient goes “what’s your fav coffee place around here” I respond with “oh I don’t drink coffee, my mom said it stunts your growth” right then my mom walks into the room (she was also an assistant and friends with the patient) so the patient looks at her and goes “do you wanna tell her or should I?” 😭😭😭
#10
For every bite of vegetables at dinner, they could stay up 5 minutes later. But, they didn’t know how to tell time.
#11
I told my daughter that whenever a kid lies to their parents they eyes glow… now if she’s lying she squints at me!
DawnoftheDead 4 months ago
I told mine their ears turn red when they lie. When they were little, they would always cover their ears when they lied so I couldn't see their ears. Now as teens, my son cant help but smile a little when he tells me a funny lie (when he's joking around). I keep telling him not to play Texas hold 'em
#12
My mom used to tell me that the AC in the car only worked when I was quiet.🙃
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
I do lol it’s called WINDOWS 😂😂,only posh new expensive cars have ac , which I add also uses more fuel , fact ! So just open the window 😂or the air vents lol
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#13
Told my daughter I could open the car trunk with my eyes. As we would walk to the car I would squint while pushing the button in my pocket 😂
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Significantly better than what my dad did. My dad would always just hold doors open for people. Not hinged doors. He would step on the pressure plate for automatic doors for them and say, "Let me get that for you." with all of us just staring on in horror. That man is so full of s**t that he had to deposit it into a secondary container, which is how we got me 😂 Now to my mother's horror we're both full of s**t.
#14
I have a gold tooth because I was a pirate before I was a firefighter. Gold teeth is how we tell each other apart offer retiring from piracy.
#15
We live on a lake and all our granddaughters know the lake doesn’t open until 9am. LOL
Cee Cee 4 months ago
They are the grandparents so likely to be in an older age bracket. Do stop your endless criticisms. I very much doubt you were/are perfect. A while back you claimed to be an empath. No you are not.
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I told my kiddos to brush good the tooth fairy is like a jeweler the whiter the tooth the more $ it’s worth…
Dorothy Reiser 4 months ago
I told my kids baby teeth were recycled into newborns so they had to take good care of theirs.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
This would have backfired horribly in my family 😂
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They think the car doesn’t start unless their seatbelt is fastened. Facts.
Cee Cee 4 months ago
My relatively new car starts without the seat belt fastened. However it does sound warnings until it is fastened.
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NetworkMan 4 months ago
Every comment you make makes you look dimmer and dimmer.
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Some of these are straight savage 😂Once forgot to play the tooth fairy, told the kids that the tooth fairy had to wait until the bank opened to get cash out.
Hellcaste's Wife 4 months ago
Whenever we forgot about the tooth fairy, we said it was because (insert whatever sport season it currently was) was causing a lot of overtime work and that they'd be there in the next day or so LOL
SweetCheesySpaghetti 4 months ago
When we forget, we wait a couple days and then leave a note from the tooth fairy apologizing saying she was on vacation.
#19
All the candy at the front at checkouts is expired. That’s why it’s up front
#20
You don’t just go to Chuck E. Cheese. You have to be invited 🥴😂
#21
Cows know when rain is coming. so when you see them all laying down in a field it means it’s about to rain and they want to keep their spot dry (source: my dad)
Tyke 4 months ago (edited)
In 2017 about 61% of the uk still believed this... my Dad told it to me too EDIT FOR CRYSTALWITCH60... That is a statistic. From 2017, so yes 61% of people in the UK did think that. What does you being a 60yr old farm lass have anything to do with this? And I did not dispute it being a myth at all.
KazzaHazza 4 months ago
Crystal Witch living up to her name, again. Well, the latter part of it.
8hqww9ks9z 4 months ago
Told this same thing to my husband. He asked, "What if some are lying down and some are standing?". I replied, "Scattered showers.".
Cee Cee 4 months ago
Plenty of UK residents believe this. Stop being so didactic especially when you really don't know what the rest of the UK believes. Ridiculous woman.
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My younger brother thought that North Carolina was the windshield capitol of the world until he was in college because one time we were driving through the state during a really bad storm and he was a super nervous kid so my dad had to reassure him that we were safe because we were in the windshield capitol of the world.
megabeth 4 months ago
That's so funny you said that. I'm from Milwaukee so when they said wind chill on the news, which was obviously often, I thought they were saying windshield until HS! (Like they measured it on a windshield? Idk lol)
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 4 months ago
I love these ones that are told to make kids feel safe. :) Makes me happy! Reminds me of when I was a kid and I saw on the news a meteor (asteroid?) was going to hit the earth and I was all freaked out and my big brother told me he'd get a big baseball bat and hit it away. I felt much better.
#23
My mom told me McDonalds was a farm!
sbj 4 months ago
When I was a kid the only McDonalds we were aware of was the old one who had a farm
Robert T 4 months ago
He also had an excess of vowels! And on that farm he had a pig, with an oink oink here and an oink oink there, e-i-e-i-o. ;-)
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 4 months ago
Old McDonalds' is a farm. That's where my parents sent all of my tropical fish to live out their elderly days, running free with the horses ... ... ... HEY!
#24
When my son was little I told him he couldn’t wake me up until the “9s” on the clock, but I set his clock back an hour so it was actually 10. 🫣
NetworkMan 4 months ago
Oh, please stop. It's funny, and it's not lazy. Give the parents a god d**n break and let them sleep a bit longer. You don't get special prizes for waking at the crack of dawn, boomer.
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We’re in a semi-rural areas so there are multiple wild rabbits around the house. I told my son they’re all easter bunny spies who report back daily, all year.
Malor Brycington 3 months ago
Not going to lie, I do enjoy this thread but at this point I'm just scrolling to see what absurdity CrystalWitch will respond with next.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
When I was very little, I happened to see a rabbit outside while looking for eggs on Easter. For a long time, I believed I’d seen the Easter bunny.
#26
When the ice cream truck plays music, it means they’re empty.
Brittania Kelli 4 months ago (edited)
You seem to be getting quite upset by this and spreading your negativity and judgement on many of these posts, perhaps you need a break from the internet? Take a walk, touch some grass and think about why it matters so much to you how other parents choose to parent of their parenting is not outright harming their children? And why do you think your negative view on things needs to be shared when all it does is judge strangers and spread negativity? The parents who made these posts on Reddit are not likely to read your comments, so it's not like your comments are going to even reach those you so strongly disagree with, so what is the point?
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The word “Vegetarian” comes from an old Indian word, meaning “Bad Hunter” 💯
Nina 4 months ago
Well, it gives them a predisposition against vegetarians that's -at the least- not positive. If they would want to switch to vegetarisn, they've already thrown up a hurdle.
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Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
2 bumper stickers seen in our rural town. "Be nice to animals, don't eat them"..."I love animals, they're delicious!"
#28
I’ve got so many but my fave is telling them that Santa’s elves went on a union strike due to unfair wages and hours so Santa has to ask parents to help wrap gifts
Phae Thompson 4 months ago
My mom told us one year when we caught her & my grandma wrapping gifts that, "Santa is sick and so are the elves so we're helping him out"
#29
You can only have so much stuff. if you get a new stuffy, you have to donate an old one or there will be a kid who doesn't have one at all. usually ends up choosing not to try and convince me to buy another stuffed animal
#30
Before my kids could read they thought every fortune cookie at Chinese restaurants said, “listen to your mommy and daddy” One day when my daughter was about 10 she asked how come they never say that anymore 🤣
#31
I told my kids they didn’t like soda, and every time they wanted to try it, I gave them club soda. They are now teens and both hate soda :)
Cee Cee 4 months ago
Why don't you go and lie down in a darkened room for a bit. Chill and lose the narky attitude.
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When my oldest has terrible growing pains in her knees we put lotion on them telling her it was easing the pain. She bought it and went back to sleep. #placebo
CK 4 months ago
Joint pain in children is often misattributed to "growing pains" when it's a sign of a real condition. If the pain is terrible, it's time to see a doctor.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
Yeah, it was definitely my fibromyalgia pain getting worse, but I wasn't diagnosed until 7 years later. Only thing test came up with back then (still two years after being told it was growing pains) was that I had a bone spur on one knee and that the muscles in both knees were 'weak' but at least physio helped a bit.
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
TIL that growing pains are actually a thing. Did not realize that. Not sure how I didn't catch that, but always thought it was just a figure of speech. Huh...
#33
I told my daughter when she lies only I can see a red dot on her forehead. If she tells me something I think is a lie I’ll look from her eyes to her forehead and she says the dot is there isn’t it. She’s 9 😂😂
#34
I told them I was allowed to sing in the car because I was one of the founding members of KidzBop 😂😂😂
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago (edited)
You're a horrific and spiteful monster. Take this upvote and leave my sight.
#35
Every single car accident we passed was bc the kids were fighting in the back seat
alchemilla vulgaris 4 months ago
i know it's just a photo for illustration, but those 2 kids are not wearing their restraints properly, and it can be worse than not having them at all (risk of abdominal injury and liver lacerations with severe haemorrhages). Make sure your kids are safe!
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
My mom once told me and my brother that the main reason mothers had car accidents was because kids were acting up in the car.
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
Shut up. The world is a cruel place and parents' nerves sometimes get stretched.
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Dead animals on the side of the road/shoulder were “taking naps.”
SouthernGal 4 months ago
Husband used to tell our child that. When they were a bit older, they said, “Some animals pick a really dangerous place to sleep”.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Yeah but how do you explain the ones that aren't fully intact? "It's like how your mind wanders when you start to get sleepy, but Mr. Fox does it with his intestines."
•XxWillowxX• 4 months ago (edited)
Not Mr. Fox :,) well yeah I don't really know how to explain that
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When my son was small he always wanted to go to Walmart. I changed my cousins name in my phone to Walmart and told him to say we’re closed today. 😂😂
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
This sounds like just telling him it's closed for the day but with extra steps.
#38
My daughter decided to clean her fishy tank and refilled the water boiling hot and cooked the poor fish. We told her he had a heart attack from old age I think she bought it. 🤣 RIP Potato chip
Sarah 4 months ago
Not sure why parent is laughing at this? With the emoji. Was child not taught pet care before they came into the house?
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
There is no accounting for children handling animals. It's like Roman concrete. Took them centuries to figure out how it was made because no one wrote down that the water you mix in needs to be salt water. (Think they also determined there has a specific type of calcium inclusion in the stone as well). No one did because everyone knows you use salt water to make concrete. No one explained that you don't put a fish in boiling water because, of course you don't put a fish in boiling water. Feel bad for the poor fish, though.
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Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
Who said this post was supposed to be funny? I can't imagine you were the perfect parent. No one is perfect. How is a statement like this related to your constant claims of being an empath? If you were, you would understand that the parents were trying to assuages the child's guilt, and not blast them for bad parenting skills. But then, you're not really an empath, are you?
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I tell them I’m 27
Mreoww 4 months ago (edited)
When I was very young, my dad told me he was 7 years old. Apparently he thought I wasn’t old enough to comprehend 2 digit numbers yet? I guess he was right, because I never questioned it.
Fire Singer 4 months ago
My dad told my sisters kid, so his grandson, that he (my dad) was 107 years old. Then at school they did a thing on grandparents and my nephew INSISTED his papa was 107. When my dad went to school for grandparents day the teacher told him he looked awfully good for 107. XD
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Told my kid I was the original green power ranger. Google home told him it was Tommy Oliver. Cover blown.
#41
Salmon is pink chicken
#42
If I replay a song more than twice, Spotify will kick me out 😂
#43
McDonald’s is closed. The cars you see in the parking lot are all broken down and abandoned.
#44
Gremlins live in the trees around our house and they get their strength from bad manners. If they get strong enough they come into your room and eat your favorite toys. Saying please, thank you, and being polite hurts their ears and keeps them away.
#45
I told my kid she’d been vaccinated against mesothelioma when she was freaking out about it.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
In the US there used to be these commercials for law firms telling you that if you were exposed to asbestos and think you might have mesothelioma then call them for a chance to get part of a settlement. They were almost as bad as the stupid prescription d**g commercials.
Load More Replies... Brittania Kelli 4 months ago
I was about to say that the way you are commenting it is quite clear that Bored Panda is not the right fit for you as it is clearly upsetting you and causing you stress, but really, I think it might be the internet, just stop using the internet, find a different outlet that doesn't cause you to have gross, judgemental and ignorant outbursts.
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#46
Any time they want something from the store I say “ok just put it on the list”. The list doesn’t exist
Fire Singer 4 months ago
My mom keeps a list on her fridge still, I'm 41 and will sometimes put "present for Fire Singer" and sometimes she still gets me stupid little gifts. :)
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 4 months ago
I regularly write things like "winning lottery ticket" on the list, but so far my husband has never got me one 😡
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
How do you even function without the list? The list is a beloved and functionally required member of the family at this point, without which, we'd probably starve.
#47
My son used my credit card to buy stuff on Fortnite when he was 9. Called a cop friend to come scare the shit out of him. My son is 16–he still thinks we called the cops on him and they just happened to send our friend.
Mari 4 months ago
I would never do this. This can be a real trauma. Better just explain why he can't just use your credit card.
Alex Boyd 4 months ago
I mean, in this case what the kid did *is* actually a crime. For that reason, this feels a little different to me than threatening a kid with the police for not cleaning their room or whatever. It would depend on what the police officer friend said/did...but if he said something like, "if you weren't a little kid, you could be arrested for this," that's just true information that the kid should probably know.
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Before I could read my mom would tell me every sign in a store said “all children must have their hands behind their backs”
#49
Blippi is on vacation (can’t watch it today!) and before a Disney cruise we said we needed to call in to report if our child ate their vegetables that day because he couldn’t go if he didn’t properly eat every night and we would do a fake call
#50
My son thinks his name is Wilson. it's just Will. he's 13
Wendy Melissa 4 months ago
My little cousin thought his last name was Zander - his name is Alexander but we always called him Alex.
#51
If I didn’t want to share I told my kids whatever I was eating/drinking was too spicy for them.😂😂😂
Dorothy Reiser 4 months ago
My parents told us Halvah was adult medicine. They would fake hating it as they ate it.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago (edited)
Ah, I remember this one. If I recall, chocolate milkshakes are EXCEEDINGLY spicy. Way to go mom. That poor little plant put a lot of work into developing a defense mechanism to stop me from eating it and now I can't get enough.
#52
Dunkin only serves donuts in the morning they only stay open for adults to get coffee bc we’re tired 😂
#53
My daughter in law said her parents used to say “knock it off or we’ll send you away like your older brother”. She’d say I don’t have an older brother. They said “exactly”.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Sounds like the kid is probably aware they're not serious. Oddly enough, my brother jokingly does this to his cat, Kopi. "That's why Kopo isn't around anymore...". Never had a cat called Kopo, for the record, and this has never stopped Kopi from doing whatever the hell she pleases. Love that cat.
Load More Replies... OneWithRatsAndKefir 4 months ago
This one’s not really an amusing lie, unless they always used a very jokey or very singsongy tune that she could always recognise it as a ‘joke’.
#54
The moms at the town over made Starbucks stop selling cake pops in the morning because they were sick of paying for them before school and now Starbucks only sells cake pops after school
#55
Anytime I don’t want to watch one of my daughters shows , I tell her they’re sleeping. Sorry, paw patrol are sleeping ! She’s only 2.5 and I’ll be the sad the day this doesn’t work! 😂
#56
I’m allergic to hamsters, gerbils, and other small animals that require cages.
#57
I tell him Youtube is down ... idk why their IT department can't get their act together lol
#58
If I didn’t want to listen to their Spotify playlist in the vehicle I would say, “Oh noooooo…..they were singing for so long that they are now taking a break.”
#60
Told my kids we're having salmon for dinner. They said they didn't like salmon. Served it and they asked what it was, I told them it was pink chicken. They all had 2 helpings.
#61
Made my daughter believe she was allergic to alcohol. Worked until she went to college 🤣
#62
My husband is an orthopedic surgeon. My kids think all his surgery patients are kids who were jumping on the couch/bed or running on the stairs. 🫠
#63
My mom told us that the “falling rock” signs was a missing kid that didn’t listen to their parents, and my brother was 19 and asked “did they ever find that missing Native American kid falling rock?”
#64
Target check out, the candy and food in the racks is for the workers to eat on their break so don't touch anything.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
"So wait, why are the condoms up there, mommy?" ...I stand by my original explanation, honey.
#65
I tell each one in private and very secretive that they are my favorite one. I tell them they can never say anything to anyone. So they all think they are my favorite one and we do secretive winks when the rest of the sibling’s aren’t looking 😅 🙈
Andrew Burke 4 months ago
Not sure this one is so clever. My kids know (I hope) that I love them all equally.
Mari 4 months ago
This! I don't have favorites, I love them all. If they ask me who is my favorite I respond that I think they are all annoying. (They know I love them)
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I told my child that if he doesn’t make his bed as soon as he wakes up, his guardian angel will continue sleeping and won’t protect him. He has make his bed ever since 😅
#68
Their mom (me) used to drive for nascar. Also was in a rock band before they were born. Of course I have no photo evidence because I’m so old.
#69
Tooth fairy doesn’t come to our house when bedrooms are dirty…. They still don’t clean it well no money for you lol works for me cause I don’t keep change anymore
#70
Told my daughter she’s allergic to facepaint when the line for face painting was about 2hrs long. That was 10 years ago and she still tells her friends she’s allergic to it. I should probably tell her the truth now 🤔
#72
If his ears don’t seem to be working (poor listening) I pretend to call the Dr so that we can go get ear shots 😌
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Hm. But wouldn't they have to already be afraid of the injections? Might make them more likely to avoid the doctor though, but repeatedly associating them with shots (not that they don't already kind of get associated with shots).
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I’m allergic to slime 😁👍🏻
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I... I need context. What caused this lie to become a thing? What events led to your children afflicting you with slime?
#74
My son refuses to eat cheese (insane I know) so I tell him cream cheese is frosting and I put sprinkles on it on his bagels to make sure he’s getting enough calcium. He gon be real mad when he learns what real frosting is. 😅
#75
I was told speed bumps are kids who didn’t hold hands in parking lots.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
A bit but given the alternative, it's not unreasonable. Better to be slightly unnerved by speed bumps than hit by a car because they wandered off in the parking lot.
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#77
That the mannequins in the store were kids who ran away from their mommy at the store and now are stuck there forever 😂
#78
When an ambulance drove by our house at nights, sirens blaring, I told them it was the bedtime police coming to ticket them for not going to sleep.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
I tell the same thing to the party guests who drink too much during drinking parties. Works every time. Ok, it might have only worked that one time, but it was pretty hilarious that it did.
#79
everytime, he rolls his eyes at me or says whatever it takes seconds off my life... doesn't happen much anymore now.
#80
All the snacks and drinks I don’t want to share have alcohol in them so they can’t have any!
#82
Told them they have motion sickness and we cant go to amusement parks
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Ok, seems harmless, but I'm gonna be the stick in the mud this time: You probably shouldn't do this with children. Placebo effect doesn't just work for cures. There's a partially mental aspect to motion-sickness, it's not just a physical infliction, it's also about how your mind interprets visual data. You could actually cause them to develop motion sickness by conditioning their mind to think they already have it. All it takes is a for the brain to respond to particular visual cues with nausea, and nausea can be a conditioned response.
#84
When she refuses to go to bed I tell her she’ll turn into a zombie and start turning green.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
That's not a lie. Bad s**t happens when I don't get a proper rest.
#86
Their beloved grandfather died, and I told them that he moved to Florida. I bought Xmas presents from him to them and kept it up for 10 yrs until they were old enough
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
I don’t like this one. Losing someone you love sucks. But children do need to learn about death, and how to cope with sad events.
#87
Told my kids I had two other kids named Katie and Tobias. When my kids acted up, I would tell them that Katie and Tobias never act like that.
Kristy Raymond 4 months ago
My dad used to do the "why can't you be more like so and so?" Still hurts. This feels similar. The girl he used to say it about died in a high speed car accident. I guess I'm good enough after all.
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There are cameras in every room. I am always make them tell the truth with that. I say “don’t make me check the camera”! Feel free to use😂😂
Luke Branwen 4 months ago (edited)
Another good way to make a child paranoid. I don't like this one at all.
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I told my kid the oil stains in parking lots were blood stains of kids who ran off from their parents and got hit by cars
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Kari Panda 4 months ago (edited)
I had to stop reading halfway through because most of these are just wrong. I won’t trick my kid with lies. Explain, be consistent and make things fun if possible. Seatbelts are mandatory, they keep us safe, so we all - mom, dad and kid - need one. I won’t start driving until they‘re fastened. Brushing your teeth is totally boring, but we need to do it to get rid of Hacky Smacky. So we‘ll watch a kids music video while brushing our teeth (and only then). And the beautiful thing is, the more consistent you are, the less complaints and arguments you‘ll have.
Multa Nocte 4 months ago
I don't think lying to children is funny at all. My parents never felt the need to lie to me and every person I have known who was lied to by their parents later resented it.
Andrew Burke 4 months ago
When my beard was starting to go grey, one of my kids asked why there were grey hairs in it. Told her that it was because every time she screamed a new grey hair just 'pops' out. So ... she started screaming at me just to see it happen! That little lie didn't work so well! 💕😂
Kari Panda 4 months ago (edited)
I had to stop reading halfway through because most of these are just wrong. I won’t trick my kid with lies. Explain, be consistent and make things fun if possible. Seatbelts are mandatory, they keep us safe, so we all - mom, dad and kid - need one. I won’t start driving until they‘re fastened. Brushing your teeth is totally boring, but we need to do it to get rid of Hacky Smacky. So we‘ll watch a kids music video while brushing our teeth (and only then). And the beautiful thing is, the more consistent you are, the less complaints and arguments you‘ll have.
Multa Nocte 4 months ago
I don't think lying to children is funny at all. My parents never felt the need to lie to me and every person I have known who was lied to by their parents later resented it.
Andrew Burke 4 months ago
When my beard was starting to go grey, one of my kids asked why there were grey hairs in it. Told her that it was because every time she screamed a new grey hair just 'pops' out. So ... she started screaming at me just to see it happen! That little lie didn't work so well! 💕😂
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