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35 Lies Parents Tell Their Kids That Other People Are Calling Great Parenting ‘Hacks’
Parenting is all about unconditional love, empathy, and family values. But it also involves a few bottles of wine, bribery, and lying. Fortunately, moms and dads aren't sugar-coating any of it.
To show you that being a hypocrite isn't necessarily a bad thing, Bored Panda put together a list of tweets where parents share the times they... stretched the truth with their kids. From the classic "I can see it from here" to the new-age "Hummus is princess food", we included them all. Enjoy!
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Mama Panda 4 years ago
I told my son the very same thing. I told him that she/he would get injured and then wouldn't be able to collect everyone else's teeth and then she/he would get fired. I was trying to teach him that his actions have consequences. It worked until he found out that the tooth fairy was a myth.
Sheila Stamey 4 years ago (edited)
My daughter asked me what the tooth fairy did with the kids teeth. I told her to write a letter. "dear tooth fairy, here is my tooth. I love you very much. What do you do with the teeth you gather?" "Dear Amy, I love you too! Very pretty tooth! I plant the baby teeth in heaven to grow new teeth for the new babies. Love , the Tooth Fairy! " Took me two hours to think that up, find the pink glitter, and write it!
cookie panda 4 years ago
my room was super dusty and I got my sinuses all jammed up and now I have to breath through my mouth. its not the worst thing you could trick them into doing.
Xan Maranya 4 years ago
Just wait. That habit of "cute lies" will come crashing down back on you when the kid's a teen. I always found being trustworthy more important.
Melanie King 4 years ago
Oh, I was told the tooth fairy was so small she would get lost in a messy room...
However, people should be really careful when it comes to lying to kids. Imagine this: An adult meets a child and says: "There is a huge bowl of candy in the next room. Want to go get some?" The child agrees and follows the adult into the room.
But there is no candy.
The adult admits it was a lie, explaining, "I just said that because I wanted you to come play with me."
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
It's the sleep equivalent of Richard Truncheon or whatever his name was rolling up to Coalbrookdale and asking them if they want a locomotive.
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Maryse Faucher 4 years ago
I did that to my youngest. Called her my sleeping pill. It worked and that's what matters
will.u.b.mine 4 years ago
b-but den who watches da toddwer?? d-daddy says no wittle one showd be weft awone...s-sowwy i is wittle wight now
Bruce Robb 4 years ago
And while Daddy's asleep, toddler plays a game called "I can play ANYTHING I want until Daddy wakes up.
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Random Person 4 years ago
Then just grab the toy and palm it, and then go to a corner and pretend you found it. Still buys some time.
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Sam Yobado 4 years ago
5 minutes looking? That's about 4 and a half minutes longer than mine can manage to look for anything. I need a hack so I can try this hack.
Mama Panda 4 years ago
My son would have walked into the room and then walked back out. He would have told me he couldn't find it without really looking. So I would get maybe 2 minutes to myself lol
ARandomPerson 4 years ago
i dont like this one cuz its just trying to get people to follow you
Shelley Kapach 4 years ago
And people wonder why their kids don't respect them once they are old enough to see the truth. Treat others like you wish to be treated-even family (especially family!)
This was the first step in an experiment by Chelsea Hays and Leslie Carver. The researchers subjected 46 children to this trick, and as you can probably guess, these kids felt disappointed. But the children were polite and agreed to play with the adult anyway.
This leads to the second part of the experiment—a guessing game.
#4
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
My dad is the only one of our family who eats Brussels sprouts: had a friend over for tea in high school, he asked her if she liked Brussels sprouts, she exclaimed "oh no, they're gross! But I do like those little cabbage things" (meaning the sprouts). Proud of my fam , none of them blinked an eye. I guess she just said "ew Brussels sprouts" coz we all did/other ppl do, without realising
Gold roses 4 years ago
Don’t hurt me but Brussels sprouts are my favorite vegetable and I love them
Rebekah Perrett 4 years ago
My son never used to eat Cauliflower but he ate cloud veg absolutely fine and liked it
Matt Hollis 4 years ago
I do a similar thing for broccoli, they are tiny trees and shes a giant
#5
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
My son respected ,"I must contemplate the matter." He was patient while I tried to figiure the best way.
Dahamada Jamawas 4 years ago
Well basically every sentence that starts with "When you're older..." is probably a lie.
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
Makes me wonder if my mom knew she was lying when she said it. OF COURSE SHE DID.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
The only difference between kids and adults: Kids wing it. Adults wing it, with experience.
Nicklas Linder 4 years ago
I'm 44, half of the time I don't know anything, I just improvise. 😂
For this phase, each child was asked to stare straight ahead while the adult held a toy behind the child's back.
The toy represented a familiar fictional character (like Winnie the Pooh, or the Cookie Monster), and the child had to guess the identity of the toy without looking.
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BonnieBlueButler 4 years ago
You tell them "it's mommy's mini flaming space rocket".
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Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
This reminds me of "the invention of lying", were people not only can't lie, but also somehow forced to be rude when they could just say nothing.
Mama Panda 4 years ago
@Kira Okah I think you should have read this one before you commented on the Baby Shark one.
Karen Lyon 4 years ago
That reminds me of when I was teaching two year olds and one of the art projects was a construction paper lady bug. (Think lots of red and black bits.) I just told my little ones "Here's the head/body/ wings",etc., but I didn't make them follow a model. They got to to glue it together however they wanted to. One of my colleagues, who taught the Pre-K class, saw their work up on the wall later and said, "What cute pizzas!" LOL.
#7
Kira Okah 4 years ago
As a kid, I was told, simply enough, tht you should wear your seatbelt in the car because without it a car crash can kill you. I don't see why this situation would require a lie when the truth is perfectly fine here.
Wendillon 4 years ago
Because in reality most kids don't understand death. The truth only works if it can be correctly understood.
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Kyle 4 years ago
My dad was a designer for Ford. He didn’t wear his seatbelt on a hunting trip and fell out of a Jeep. His drawing arm was shattered. They put in a rod to stabilize the arm. Took him months of grueling work to get back enough functionality to go back to work. No one in the family ever went anywhere without a seatbelt again.
Denise VanBuren 4 years ago
I don't see anything wrong with telling kids this little white lie. It would speed things up and kids would get into the habit of buckling up before the car starts. And if they think about it later as they grow and realize it wasn't the truth they're going to know their mom did it to keep them safe.
Melissa Peck 4 years ago
I have had to tell grown adults that we aren't going anywhere until they put their seatbelt on. And then later I had to threaten to pull over and kick them out if they didn't put it back on when they took it off.
Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
I find it so annoying when i am getting into a car with a friend and their parent starts driving before i am even buckled in. Drives me nuts! (Pun not intended.)
Guido Pisano 4 years ago
I just teached my kids that seatbelt must be wore. I do not move until everyone has it fastened (same for adults that comes in my car)
M O'Connell 4 years ago
A competent mechanic can add seat-occupancy sensors to the drivers' seatbelt 'dinger' circuit on pretty much any car, so your rear passengers will get the same audible reminder that you do.
Carrie de Luka 4 years ago
My last few cars have all had these sensors - no-wants to listen to the annoying ding.
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After playing two rounds of the game, the adult suddenly told the child that she had to leave for a minute to answer a phone call.
She said she'd be right back and the two of them would continue the game. Meanwhile, she explained, she was going to leave behind the next toy to be identified (she covered it so the child couldn't see what it was) and put it on a table.
"Don't peek while I'm gone!" she said.
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ravina nimje 4 years ago
That is not lie, it works for me every single time. Im a grown-ass woman.
JitkaBlitka 4 years ago
I tell that to my kids too. I don't think it's really a lie, if they ate only what they want they would definitely get sick.
John and Brandy Keippala 4 years ago
Brilliant! I wonder if that will work with my 12 year old...
Mary Peace 4 years ago
That works for me. It's almost the same as having a main course before you're allowed ice cream, cake, chocolate, etc. One day your toddler (or the child's internal organs) may thank you because they didn't get so hooked on junk food.
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Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
Probably the next lie will be that daddy sleeps now in a sofa because there he can hear...
Eliza Schuyler 4 years ago
Then your wife leaves you alone for the night and your kids blasts music because “Daddy cannot hear when it is dark”
Lauren Ringel 4 years ago
My mom taught us to say dada first so when we woke up in the night we'd yell for dada.
The lion tamer 4 years ago
,well, that's actually the biggest truth ever. I can still hear if they toss in bed from two rooms away, but he kept snoring when they cried as babies.
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Nigel Rodgers 4 years ago
I was there when it happened! It was so sad to see. No more baby shark😢😢
GenXandEarnedItAll 4 years ago
A lie that actually came true. "The park is closed, honey....because of Covid. Sorry."
Julie Patel 3 years ago
Lol. You now have to say that Baby Shark was destroyed by the cable company since Baby Shark has a TV show now.
Margie Dodd 3 years ago
convinced my 3 yr old grandson that ALL Mcdonalds burned down when we passed one that did... worked for a couple of mcdonalds free years...
The adult was gone for 90 seconds. During this period, a hidden camera recorded the child's activities. When the adult came back, she asked the child to promise to tell the truth, asking "When I was gone did you turn around and peek to look at the toy?"
Hays and Carver recorded the answers, and compared the results to those of children in a control group (47 kids who went through the same procedure, but without the initial trickery).
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Julie Patel 3 years ago
Hummus is disgusting and it will NEVER be "princess food". It's called mush or baby food that tastes like farts.
#12
Another Fool on the Hill 4 years ago
Can a slice of bread that's not toasted be called 'toast'?
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IcarusOfTheSkywings 3 years ago
If they don't want to drink water, tell them it's actually molten ice!
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Wendillon 4 years ago
I think my mother used this on my brother too. Kid was too lazy to use the potty.
KiwiBubbles 4 years ago
Somehow I *distinctly remember* being SO UPSET as a little kid when I had to use the toilet! I remember being like UGGHHH it's so much WOOORK it takes so LOOONG I have to wipe and flush and wash my hands?! I DO NOT like these newfound responsibilities!!! ... 😑🙄
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I told my 4 year-old that she couldn't nurse anymore because I might give her Covid. I thought she'd never stop!
backatya 4 years ago
Just give her the drink or food and no more breast. Eventually she'll get hungry to eat like a grown up
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Friends of my family were having trouble potty training their young toddler. One day, a couple of fire trucks blew past them and the father seized the moment. He made a big deal out of the situation by lamenting the sad fact that the diaper factory was burning to the ground. Later on, he then told the toddler that the firemen couldn't save the diaper factory, therefore, there would be no more diapers. The kid was so angry at the firemen for their incompetence, every time he saw a fire truck, he'd berate them from his car seat, even shaking his fists at them while telling them off. It worked, though. He trained.
Anna Tribe 3 years ago
I've done exactly this with my two grandchildren. My daughter would drop off the oldest (3) who was being really lazy and refused to use the potty or toilet. Then after she had left I'd put him in the bath to play and go get his bag with clean clothes. Oops, mum forgot to put diapers in the bag so he would have to wear the underwear I already had. 2 days later his mum picked him up fully toilet trained day and night. No accidents. Did the same with his younger brother when the time came. In a few years I'll probably be doing the same thing with their younger sister.
Roland Kreslin 4 years ago
I don't get the problems parents have with potty training and diaper. Check the time when the toddler poo normally. Set him on the pot, wait until its done and finish. Yes. Might be troublesome with crying yelling and whatever toddlers do. I just didn't care. It's a game of who is more stubborn. When he realized he has no chance and that he doesn't go to play as long as he behave like that he just surrendered and said even he need to go.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Give the kid some credit. If he could comprehend the diaper story he could have understood a request to help you by learning.
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
Good bargaining tool! Tell a child they can have more diapers OR use the potty and buy a toy!
The results were really interesting. Compared with older children, 3- and 4-year-olds tended to peek more often. But they also tended to tell the truth more often. Their responses didn't vary by the condition—being lied to did not make a difference.
But the behavior of older kids (ages 5 and up) depended on the adult's track record. The kids who had been tricked by the adult were more likely to peek. They were also more likely to lie about it afterward.
Now at least you know the potential consequences of lying to a child. Assuming they catch you...
#14
California Jones 4 years ago
That's what my dad gets my mum for mother's day every year. She was elated when she finally got the pole saw.
Load More Replies... Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
Just start listing off some weird or made up medicines and say they are for something strange. Depends on the age, but they will usually lose interest immediately haha
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
"A boring computer thing" - even our eleven year old gamer isn't interested in Dad's boring computer things, and they do turn up through out the year
Kat Kirkpatrick 4 years ago
Socks and underwear. You tell the kid(s) that the packages are boring grown-up socks and underwear with no pictures or cartoon characters on them. Only works if you regularly wear "boring, grown-up" socks and underwear without pictures or cartoon characters on them.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
What is wrong with this picture, Christmas. Tell them about Christmas the real story and tell them politely not to ask about the packages.
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Yes this lol, I'm currently in a long term battle of wills and I use this :D
Another Fool on the Hill 4 years ago
I tell this lie to me over and over again and from time to time I really believe it...
Julie Patel 3 years ago
It's not a lie for me at all. I do whatever I want all the time but in a job, I'll do what the job requires but I still can do whatever I like.
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Delaney White 4 years ago
my step-mother used these cruel words on me... never did believe her lies.
pamela nichols 4 years ago
Now see i told my children that adults can't always do what they want and that I had eyes in the back of my head.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
No. I will do what I want as a child, when the consequences aren't so severe
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Your_local_introvert 4 years ago
Toddlers will take any vague response such as: Oh you're having fun playing, I can see that! or if you know they are drawing, you just say: That's a wonderful drawing, I love it!
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Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Do yourself and them a favor , take time to stop , look and be grateful they want to share with you.
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purple zebra 4 years ago
It’s daylight saving. Always remember to leave off the last “s” for saving-lol
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Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Be careful, I'm a middle aged woman that can't leave the house, start work, go on a journey, join a meeting, without going to the bathroom first!
Julie Patel 3 years ago
You should use the bathroom before you even go through security. That way since security takes so long, you can feel happy that you used the bathroom before you got checked out.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
They're brave enough to fly but can't be trusted to use the bathroom because YOU not the pilot asked them?
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troufaki13 4 years ago
Once my 3yo nephew had a sleepover at my house. When he woke up the next he asked me "why are you so beautiful?" I almost cried :D
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
now i feel like you lie to us, your BP commentators
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Kristof De Smet 4 years ago
For Father's Day, my daughter had to indicate which words characterized me. Turns out I'm kind and brave, but not cool...
Claire Murray 4 years ago
Well his username is the Exploding Unicorn. That's how you KNOW he's cool.
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YoChicken 4 years ago
@Melanie King I live in the same area...I've never seen an ice cream truck either...at least not the ones that drive around, I mean I have seen them like hired at kids birthday parties or just parked by beaches, but I've never actually seen and ice cream truck. IDK why you got downvoted
Load More Replies... WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
oh my gosh yes- except where i grew up, i was a todling and knew what the jingle meant. But i'd be like, "oh yeah thats my guy, bill. yeah, no, we know each other! He's a friend from work!" and then convince my kids that the ice cream at home is what is used in the trucks XD
Lee The Thespian 4 years ago
My parents told me this too! It worked for a while, till my aunt told us the truth
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago
well, my dad told me this one many times when i was 6. i am now 66 and still want ice cream lol
Steve in Denver 4 years ago
The daily ice cream truck is a BARGAINING TOOL. "Are your rooms clean? The ice cream truck will be here in about an hour."
Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
Behind my house is a main road and a ice cream truck always goes by in the summer. I am still waiting for the day that my mom says yes. It’s been 11 years...
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Our computer and tv used to need naps, or they would be so tired they would need to sleep all of tomorrow. As evidenced by the computer having a sleep mode! XD it was good while it lasted, he's long since wised up but it worked for quite a while
The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
Yes! I do this too! Also with toys I’m tired of my 2 boys fighting over.
Melanie King 4 years ago
Yep, my parents tell this to my little brother too. Anyone ever heard of the show Blippi? Informational, but annoying as hell, so sometimes Blippi gets tired and has to go to sleep
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Amelie Peacock 4 years ago
this one's cute :) thats it, i definitely want to be a parent when im older
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
.Playing with the child, building imagination, laughing and letting them know it's for fun. That's precious.
Paradise 4 years ago
Reminds me when I pretended objects magically appeared in a box. So easy to have a toddler close their eyes and count and you open the box and out a toy in. Convinced my kid it was magic. Or when I didnt want them to see me opening a child-locked door, I said it was magic and they had to close their eyes and spin 3 times.
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
I convinced my kids if they watched too much TV their brains would leak out their ears. And I would peek and say "oh yeah, I can see a little bit of brain there." Luckily if you stop watching TV on time your brain will shrink back up into your head 😆
Marilyn Ransberry 4 years ago
As a teacher I told my class that I had eyes in the back of my head when I was writing on the blackboard. Actually I could just tell from their voices who was doing what.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 4 years ago
We told our tween soon that the cell phone company lists each and every text with the price next to it and that's how we pay the phone bill. The cost wasn't the target, the text messages were.. worked for about 2 years..
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Steve in Denver 4 years ago
Therre are studies that children as young as 3-y/o KNOW how many times a parent repeats themselves before it's time to get serious.
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Why would they believe you the first time after you lied to them about everything else on earth , for NO REASON AT ALL?
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Crochet lady 4 years ago
My kids has to make a fire escape plan for home. My twins told me we would meet at the tree in the cul de sac and I was like that's good but you know I'm going to grab the cat and the dog before I worry about you guys, right? They laughed at my silly joke. Next day teacher pulls me aside and said in a very disappointed voice, Mrs W. did you tell your boys your fire plan was for you to grab the pets first and the kids were on their own? Haha. I can't describe the shades of red my face was. I explained it and she had a good chuckle. I wanted to die.
Elizabeth Stewart 4 years ago
As someone who teaches 4s and 5s, if a student told me their parent’s middle name was Danger I’d laugh and probably record the fun memory in their journal. (We make journals/scrapbooks for the kids each year)
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I agree "Hammer" would been a better choice.
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
You'd be surprised how many toys we tried "new" batteries in, but sadly they didn't work! (Only on several really awful toddler toys, nothing he was attached to)
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Fun fact, quieting down noisy toys is as simple as disassembling them and adding a resistor in series with the speaker.
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IcarusOfTheSkywings 3 years ago (edited)
Take their chargers, not their devices. Then watch the fear in their eyes as the power drains away.
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Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It should be. The fact that they're corporate sociopaths that keep it open is no reason to pay them.
ravina nimje 4 years ago
In lockdown you can take them once in the get, they will know it's closed.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I can't remember how many times Chuck E. Cheese's was closed for cleaning...
Matt Hollis 4 years ago
WTF, they actually opened during a world wide pandemic!
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Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
"Go hide, I'll come find you." I can just imagine the child 3 hours later, just standing in plain sight like: "Mommy, can you find me?" and she just completely ignores them haha
The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
No, I love to play hide and seek. I find really good spots to hide in (their 6 and 3 so not hard to do ) and either nap or play a game on my phone. It’s the only alone time I get 🤣
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Someday you'll be an old coot in a wheel chair that no one can see if you don't stop telling lies.
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Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
Or just dark chocolate haha, most kids don't like it
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Abhainn 4 years ago
I have a friend who, in 1st or 2nd grade had a rebellious moment and ate a forbidden *adult brownie* for breakfast. Later, he was stoned and went to the school nurse because he thought he was gonna die. He was fine, and it all worked out, but funny story
backatya 4 years ago
I wouldn't call it adult. Getting high to escape reality is a bit immature
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Gary French 4 years ago
My wife use to eat the kids chocolate out of the fridge when they went to bed. When they found it missing she would say it had gone off and had to be thrown out.
Tidal_wave 4 years ago
My friend asked me if I wanted a caramel. Her 5 year old heard. When her daughter asked what a caramel is, she told her it's to help me sleep haha
Marilyn Ransberry 4 years ago
My daughter told my grandson something he wanted to eat was frozen . It was. Then he used that every time he didn’t want to eat something. NO It’s FROZEN!
Daisy Elle 4 years ago
Me with my 8yr old granddaughter .. 'Would you like a Magnum ice cream'? Her, wide eyed and astonished, whispers 'I can't, they're only for grown-ups, Mummy said' Me.... 'Mummy lied'.... Bought her one every weekend. Am still her favourite grown up 9 years later 😂
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Alexa Hume 4 years ago
I am at work right now and this song is playing on the radio, how ironic
backatya 4 years ago
Gee thanks for telling us when we didn't ask you for that tid bit of information. lol
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KiwiBubbles 4 years ago
Oh my goodness, my brother used to be up at 6 or 7 any day we didn't have school, but on school days my mom had to go in his room multiple times and work SO hard to force him to get up! I probably did that too when I was younger (and had less appreciation for sleeping in) but he's younger, so I remember him doing it more recently.
aesthetic.baddie27 4 years ago
Your children wake up EARLY on the weekends?? I don't get up until 2 in the afternoon...
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
My sister took forever to get up any morning, but i was always awake early
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Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago
And then kids won't eat other food and insist that it's too spicy. That'll become a refrain before they even try something.
Charlotte Carpenter 4 years ago
kid *grows up and likes spicy foods* "i want oreos!!! *eats oreos* "man these ain't spicy at allll!"
D.j. Vinylmaniac 4 years ago
Bad idea, you will struggle with the even less spicy food when they're aged 9-18.
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Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 4 years ago
True Fact™ - McDonald's is the largest distributor of toys in the world. Yipes!
Kerrie Brown 4 years ago
I sometimes tell my son that McDonald's is closed (he is 5) I'm gonna milk this until he understands 24 hour service
Salty Old Woman 4 years ago
They actually do. You can always buy one of their toys, even if you don't buy any food.
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
"I already know exactly what happened so it will be better for you if you tell me the whole truth and leave nothing out." (I still haven't been asked how I "know" what happened, it working)
Bendy Rainbow 4 years ago
If you wouldn't eat a particular food yourself, don't feed it to your kids!
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Amelie Peacock 4 years ago
yes, the elephant/cat/bear/lion drawn in pink crayon is simply a work of art
Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
*Random scribbles* "Oh, what is that you are drawing?" "A puppy!" "Oh, I can see it! It's so cute!" haha
WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
actually, it's good to tell your kids that it looks good when it actually isnt. A study showed that if kids have more confidence, the more likely it is they will enhance their art skills so they are successful
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Kira Okah 4 years ago
Having the internal light on in the dark does make it harder to see the road though. Oddly enough, nt a lie.
BorPand8 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, it ruins your night vision if you're driving at night -- especially if you're in the country, with no streetlights.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I was told (not by my parents) it's illegal to have cabin light on during moving vehicle at night time. That's what I tell my son now. Alas the lie lives on.
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Lorelai Purvis 4 years ago
MY PARENTS HAVE BEEN LYING THIS WHOLE TIME :O DID THEY ALSO LIE ABOUT PUTTING MY HANDS UP?!
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 4 years ago
My mom always said it was illegal to drive with the internal light on in the car.
Cosmetica Solist 4 years ago
In my country it is illegal. We didn't have a car so I never heard it before I went to driving school
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Angelica H 4 years ago
my mum and dad used to do this to my brother! they would ask " hey bud, what time is it?" and my brother would look out the window and be like " oh it's dark outside! 'night mom, 'night dad." he was like 3 at the time.
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cookie panda 4 years ago
you cant eat your kids candy. Thats just bad parenting, and it won't end well if they find out you did/have been doing this.
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Angelica H 4 years ago
my dad told my brother this 2 hours into the drive to las vegas, btw we live in the California valley, so it was like a 8 hour drive.
Abhainn 4 years ago
ha! we were on a family road trip and we were almost there but I (7 yrs) was throwing a snit. I wanted to be out of the car. and let my mom know for the millionth time. she didn't pay me any mind, but turned to my dad, who was driving, and asked if he made a worn turn 2 hrs ago. she was kidding, but I didn't know that and I freaked out till I saw their rascally smiles.
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Amelie Peacock 4 years ago
fun fact: i used to want to be a princess/builder, aka i would want to wear ballgowns to construction sites, place down my tiara and start layin those bricks. i still dont understand why this aspiration didnt continue, it would have been awesome
Amelie Peacock 4 years ago
i woulda been the swaggest builder on the block
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
This is actually a very harmful lie. We are raised to believe that with hard work we can be what we want and that we will succeed in life. And that’s not true at all (luck and contacts make you succeed). For the other hand being a kid and knowing that it is likely that you are going to be miserable as an adult is also terrible.
Allen Lavine 4 years ago
Like Chris rock said you can be what ever there hiring for cause no one puts on shoes and a jacket and play substitute principal
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WholesomeArmyweeb 4 years ago
my dad almost always refuses our apologies if we couldn't think of something to get him. He also never lets us beat ourselves up. Because he knows we really try. He loves it when i sew him stuff, too :)
GenXandEarnedItAll 4 years ago
Once I had children I decided that Dad should take the kids in Mother's Day...and Father's Day as well.
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Amelie Peacock 4 years ago
fun fact #3: my dad used to do that with traffic lights, and predict when they would turn on. it took me a solid few years to figure out what was going on :)
Jessica Nametz 4 years ago
One of my favorite memories I have with my dad!! I can't WAIT until I can pull that with my daughters and see the look of amazement on their faces!
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ravina nimje 4 years ago
In my country, small hospitals and veterinary clinics are closed on Sundays. Basically, you forgot to mention the country, it's not lie. You are being forgetful.
Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
or, maybe they live in a country where they aren't closed on sundays. that's not forgetful, just true for them specifically. It's also not something to be offended at lol
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it's Wednesday my dudes. 4 years ago
my mom told me that any time past six o clock, my bedtime when I was four, the bad doctors came in and they where bad and mean lol. I'm mad
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Amelie Peacock 4 years ago
fun fact #2: i also wanted to be wonder woman when i grew up. i had the costume and the boots and the power cuffs and the headband and everything. i used to go everywhere in that costume :)
Kelli from Fitness Blender 4 years ago
Princess Wonder Woman Construction Worker
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littlesaresare 4 years ago
Maybe she is crying because you are hurting her while brushing? When I brushed my niece's hair she was terrified, and then gobsmacked and told me how gentle I was. Her mother never held the hair above when brushing knots, and didn't listen to her daughter's cries of pain. Brush your kid's hair properly, people.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Yeah. My grandma used to hurt me a lot when she brushed my hair. I wonder if that’s is why I cut it short as soon as I could,
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Anna Woodhull 4 years ago
It's ok. The Tooth fairy is notoriously unreliable. Parents are always making excuses for her. Santa and the Easter bunny reliably show up once a year. The tooth fairy, she just seems to show up whenever she gets around to it.
Swyft 4 years ago
she stopped showing up after I caught her, completely by accident, I was going to get water and there's my dad
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Ginny Weasley 4 years ago
This isn´t actually good, this is rude and mean, and kinda selfish :/
Lit Present Mic (Anime SImp) 4 years ago
My parents just have a little box in the garage with my artwork in it
Dawn Thomas-Cameron 4 years ago
You take a photo of it, post it to Facebook or somewhere and then recycle the paper to make more art. Nothing wrong with that. Also helps with later pack ratting behaviour.
Curry on... 4 years ago
I kept a box for my kids' art work until they were older. I was in no hurry to dispose of their little gems. Maybe it's because I'm an artist. Unfortunately, neither of them gravitated toward art when they were grown.
Alex Bailey 4 years ago
You are drawing attention to it. Already downvoted so not sure what you think you're achieving. People are allowed to have different opinions.
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Ray Martin 4 years ago
Is it just me, or are half of these just people being shitty parents, as well as shitty people?
Hans 4 years ago
Interesting that you also found it. I also perceive two different types of entries here: those that are funny because the parents do not take themselves too serious and realize parenting is a lot about improvising – I think most parents can relate, and it can be hillarious. And those who seem to excuse lies for situations when they were to lazy to actually care or refused to understand how children perceive the world.
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DC 4 years ago
A lot of these are just lazy. I mean ... your kids do trust you, don't they? You expect them to obey your rules, to tell you when they encounter problems outside, ... lying to them shouldn't be a daily habit, but kept for very rare moments where they really can't handle the truth. It simply isn't ok. Also, don't we have a huge global outbreak of facts-deniery at the moment? Where does it come from that reality is a mere opinion in a lot of people's view? How honest were the parents of that incel with the horn helmet? Did he mess up his mind totally on his own, or may it be that he had a mother who resorted to lies whenever stuff was unfomfortable? Also - if you're uncomfortable telling your children what you do, it likely is wrong anyway, so instead of lying yourself out of the trouble, you can do yourself out of trouble. By not doing what is embarrassing to admit to your kids.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
When my parents wanted to take a nap, they said "When i wake up we're gonna clean. Wake me up in an hour." Lo and behold, the house was dead silent and they slept long and deep.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
I've tried a variant recently. "If you aren't going to sleep, you are going to clean." And just like that, my toddler picks up her toys instead of laying the F down.
Load More Replies... John Louis 4 years ago
Some of the "Lies" are not to be taken seriously. Some are lazy, irresponsible parenting and some are cruel. This represents deep character flaws.
Abby Machin 4 years ago
One time my dad needed me to do something for him at his house while he was out of town, but my 2 1/2 year old son and I were in watching his favorite cartoon and I could tell by the mood he'd been in all day that if I said we had to go he was going to start crying and it would be a whole scene and I wasn't trying to deal with that at the moment. So I sneakily unplugged the router and told him, "Oh no! We ran out of internet! Let's go get some from Papa's house really quick!" When we got to my dad's I gave my son a big Ziploc bag and told him to open it and run around the house to catch all the wifi while I did what my dad had asked me to do. When I was done we zipped the bag up and headed back home, then I had him dump the 'wifi' onto our router and wouldn't you know it, it started working again!
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
I love how some people are using Santa Claus as a response to those calling out the horribly lazy parents who refuse to raise their children with discipline and integrity. There is a huge difference between using lies to avoid proper parenting and continuing a lovely innocent tradition that everyone appreciates so much that they carry it on with their own children. For those deliberately obtuse who point out Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, etc: Go suck a rock.
Abby Machin 4 years ago
I love the Santa tradition and we practice it in my house, even though my boys are just about too old to believe it anymore :( But just pointing out the Santa myth was originally and continues to be used to manipulate children into 'being good', scaring them with not getting toys, getting coal, or in other cultures even being beaten by 6-8 black men or being taken by a demon if they don't behave themselves. Even the soft, jolly American version can be pretty threatening if you think about it as a child might, 'he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake!'...there's even a tattle tale elf now who will make sure Santa knows all your misdeeds in case he didn't somehow see it with his all seeing eyes. You could easily argue that's also pretty lazy parenting to get a behavior you want, not just an innocent tradition.
Load More Replies... Paradise 4 years ago
Funny we teach not to lie but we do ourselves. Our toothfairy will tell them to clean up, too. For St Patrick's, we mess up the house a little and our oldest makes traps. The lephrechan gets caught in a trap. I make a really crappy 30 second drawing cutout and put it in the trap and leave a note saying their trap was so good they caught the lephrechan and he turned into paper. They need to clean up and the lephrechan will return back to being alive next year. She is oblivious to things like my hand writing and how the lephrechan wrote a note after turning into paper.
Robert Baldwin 4 years ago
Weird that I chose not to have kids at all because this was the kind of parent I knew I would be... only to find out they are apparently "hacks". "That's right Timmy, wind is caused by the trees waving back and forth".
Randie Gertz 4 years ago
Long before Walmart and Target, we had to go to a toy store (FAO SCHWARTZ, Toys R Us) for toys and gifts. I convinced my kids that those places were museums and we couldn't touch, just look!
Ray Martin 4 years ago
Is it just me, or are half of these just people being shitty parents, as well as shitty people?
Hans 4 years ago
Interesting that you also found it. I also perceive two different types of entries here: those that are funny because the parents do not take themselves too serious and realize parenting is a lot about improvising – I think most parents can relate, and it can be hillarious. And those who seem to excuse lies for situations when they were to lazy to actually care or refused to understand how children perceive the world.
Load More Replies... DC 4 years ago
A lot of these are just lazy. I mean ... your kids do trust you, don't they? You expect them to obey your rules, to tell you when they encounter problems outside, ... lying to them shouldn't be a daily habit, but kept for very rare moments where they really can't handle the truth. It simply isn't ok. Also, don't we have a huge global outbreak of facts-deniery at the moment? Where does it come from that reality is a mere opinion in a lot of people's view? How honest were the parents of that incel with the horn helmet? Did he mess up his mind totally on his own, or may it be that he had a mother who resorted to lies whenever stuff was unfomfortable? Also - if you're uncomfortable telling your children what you do, it likely is wrong anyway, so instead of lying yourself out of the trouble, you can do yourself out of trouble. By not doing what is embarrassing to admit to your kids.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
When my parents wanted to take a nap, they said "When i wake up we're gonna clean. Wake me up in an hour." Lo and behold, the house was dead silent and they slept long and deep.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
I've tried a variant recently. "If you aren't going to sleep, you are going to clean." And just like that, my toddler picks up her toys instead of laying the F down.
Load More Replies... John Louis 4 years ago
Some of the "Lies" are not to be taken seriously. Some are lazy, irresponsible parenting and some are cruel. This represents deep character flaws.
Abby Machin 4 years ago
One time my dad needed me to do something for him at his house while he was out of town, but my 2 1/2 year old son and I were in watching his favorite cartoon and I could tell by the mood he'd been in all day that if I said we had to go he was going to start crying and it would be a whole scene and I wasn't trying to deal with that at the moment. So I sneakily unplugged the router and told him, "Oh no! We ran out of internet! Let's go get some from Papa's house really quick!" When we got to my dad's I gave my son a big Ziploc bag and told him to open it and run around the house to catch all the wifi while I did what my dad had asked me to do. When I was done we zipped the bag up and headed back home, then I had him dump the 'wifi' onto our router and wouldn't you know it, it started working again!
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
I love how some people are using Santa Claus as a response to those calling out the horribly lazy parents who refuse to raise their children with discipline and integrity. There is a huge difference between using lies to avoid proper parenting and continuing a lovely innocent tradition that everyone appreciates so much that they carry it on with their own children. For those deliberately obtuse who point out Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, etc: Go suck a rock.
Abby Machin 4 years ago
I love the Santa tradition and we practice it in my house, even though my boys are just about too old to believe it anymore :( But just pointing out the Santa myth was originally and continues to be used to manipulate children into 'being good', scaring them with not getting toys, getting coal, or in other cultures even being beaten by 6-8 black men or being taken by a demon if they don't behave themselves. Even the soft, jolly American version can be pretty threatening if you think about it as a child might, 'he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake!'...there's even a tattle tale elf now who will make sure Santa knows all your misdeeds in case he didn't somehow see it with his all seeing eyes. You could easily argue that's also pretty lazy parenting to get a behavior you want, not just an innocent tradition.
Load More Replies... Paradise 4 years ago
Funny we teach not to lie but we do ourselves. Our toothfairy will tell them to clean up, too. For St Patrick's, we mess up the house a little and our oldest makes traps. The lephrechan gets caught in a trap. I make a really crappy 30 second drawing cutout and put it in the trap and leave a note saying their trap was so good they caught the lephrechan and he turned into paper. They need to clean up and the lephrechan will return back to being alive next year. She is oblivious to things like my hand writing and how the lephrechan wrote a note after turning into paper.
Robert Baldwin 4 years ago
Weird that I chose not to have kids at all because this was the kind of parent I knew I would be... only to find out they are apparently "hacks". "That's right Timmy, wind is caused by the trees waving back and forth".
Randie Gertz 4 years ago
Long before Walmart and Target, we had to go to a toy store (FAO SCHWARTZ, Toys R Us) for toys and gifts. I convinced my kids that those places were museums and we couldn't touch, just look!
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