Raising kids is no easy task, and your whole life turns upside down at least until your tiny human turns eighteen and is capable of dealing with responsibilities himself. Before he or she does, you, as a parent, are responsible that your cute kid turns out to be a good member of society and a wise human being. Now, we are not going to tell you exactly how parenthood works, but we can share a little secret - if necessity is the mother of invention, then lies are invention's older sibling. How do you get your kids to behave? How do you get them to eat vegetables? When reason fails, necessity provides a solution: white lies.
Of course, we are not advocating keeping the truth from your kids, as the little lies that we've compiled below are more like embellished truth, conveyed in an easily understandable way. And though sometimes these little lies are means of convincing your misbehaving kid into doing something he'd rather not, in other cases these parenting examples are just testing the little one's sense of humor.
This list by 22words is based on a Reddit thread of a similar name and contains the most excellent actual lies parents have used on their kids.
(h/t: 22words)
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Little Lies About Lying
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
White Lie About TV
White Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
I loved to sing in the car on long journeys, when I was young and when he got fed up with it, my Dad would stop the car and let me out, saying that my voice was so good that he thought everyone outside would like to hear it. When I had had enough, he let me back in and we continued the journey.
Little Lies To Make Kids Feel Better
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Embellishing Food Names
Classic Parent Lies
Little Lies About Food
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
I was freaked out by Santa Claus : a stranger entering the house by the chimney? Han han, no way! Even if it's to bring gifts, it was way too weird for me. My parents tried very hard to make me believe it was a great man, but still, I had to sleep with them if they didn't want me to have a panic attack. So the Santa myths didn't stay for many years, they told me early that in fact it was them and no stranger entered the house once a year.
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Jesus... how to make a child paranoid from an early age. That is really horrible.
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
I would just eat them by myself. kids cannot appreciatethem enough anyway:)
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
My dad used the word hibiscus as another word for horse droppings. I was so disgusted as I saw a hibiscus tea..
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
When I was in university, a girl sneezed & puked at the same time! That was hilariously disgusting!
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
My mom told me it was because our planet was suddenly spinning too fast. I remembered until my first real geography class in fifth grade when I screamed at my teacher that my mom was always right *facepalm
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
oh my goodness, my dad told me the exact same thing! I was so annoyed that it never worked, but then he'd be like, "No, it's working! There's one right there. It's really, really little though. Only I can see it, because I eat carrots." Of course Kid Me never made the connection that without his glasses he's legally blind..
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
I was told it would stay glued in my stomach, waiting for other gums to be swallowed until my stomach would be full and I would have to be given a new stomach.
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
I have no clue why americans are so fuzzed about a perfect yard. Making wreaths with dandelions is amazing.
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
My mother used to tell me that if I cried and the bath the small hair in the tub will transform to spiders
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
My mum was told if she didn't eat all her rice at dinner her boobs wouldn't grow. She definitely ate all her rice.
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
When I was 3 my parents got me to stop using a pacifier by saying that the garbage man's baby doesn't have a pacifier, so you should give him yours. So I threw it away in the garbage thinking I had done a good deed for a poor baby without a pacifier.
When we didn't finish our oatmeal in the morning Pop fried it up for lunch and told us it was duck burgers.
My dad used the word hibiscus as another word for horse droppings. I was so disgusted as I saw a hibiscus tea..
i could never resist the ears of chocolate bunnies, so i told my son his baskets were from the Easter Gopher. It worked until he entered kindergarten.
We told our son that if he didn't eat certain vegetables that assorted body parts would fall off. He said he knew what happened if you didn't eat meat cuz his vegetarian dad went bald.
Our parents told us if we ate our potato skins we would be able to whistle when we grew up.
I told my daughter the hospital gives all new moms Santa's phone number.
My friends told me that her grandma told her that any time she forgot to switch off the lights a bunny rabbit dies :')
This is kinda of silly, but my sister and I always believed that she left her 'blankie' in a store when she was 5. I'm 35 now and recently I mentioned it, and I was blown away when my Mom said that actually wasn't true. She threw it in the garbage. LOL. Well played. We believed that for 30 years.
My Grandpa told me if I swallowed a watermelon seed, I would have melons growing out of my ears LOL
I like the 10,000 words per month. That would have worked on me, because I have always been a talker….
A lady on TV said to her kid that when the Ice Cream Truck would play it's song that would mean that they ran out of Ice Cream.
I used my pacifier and one night I slept in my older brother's bed and when I woke up it was gone. I was convinced it had fallen behind the
bed and that it was my last one. I believed this till my brother cleaned out under his bed and didn't find it. My mom then confessed she had
Load More Replies...When I was 4 or five I had a fish. His name was George and I love him so much. Apparently it died 5 times but 4 or those times I was at daycare so my mom would replace it while I was gone and wouldn’t tell me. It ended up dying on a Saturday and I lost my mind. I actually thought a beta fish could last a year in a half. Until last year when my mom actually told me what happened. 😂
One of my friends has a story about her mum telling her that every time she forgets switch off the lights a bunny rabbit dies!! Aparetlly this worked perfectly :'D
A sense of humour should be a requirement for using the internet. Awe ... are you offended? Princess ... P.S. You're still a troll if you call someone else a bad parent because you think you're perfect. Go hide under your bridge and let the rest of us live happily ever after just doing the best we can at being humans, and not some pitiful a*s living in their own world under a bridge of ignorance and closed mindedness.
Okay some of these were funny, some were sweet, but most were really effed up.
Horrible, horrible parenting. Is it really that difficult to just say to your kid the truth? Some of the phrases are even so ironic that tell lies to keep their kids from telling lies.
We tell our kids that if the music is playing on the ice cream truck it means they ran out of ice cream:)
I think many of these are very good for developing paranoia! Mentally traumatizing! And so many are just for parents' selfish benefits and NOT for kids' education!
When I was 3 my parents got me to stop using a pacifier by saying that the garbage man's baby doesn't have a pacifier, so you should give him yours. So I threw it away in the garbage thinking I had done a good deed for a poor baby without a pacifier.
When we didn't finish our oatmeal in the morning Pop fried it up for lunch and told us it was duck burgers.
My dad used the word hibiscus as another word for horse droppings. I was so disgusted as I saw a hibiscus tea..
i could never resist the ears of chocolate bunnies, so i told my son his baskets were from the Easter Gopher. It worked until he entered kindergarten.
We told our son that if he didn't eat certain vegetables that assorted body parts would fall off. He said he knew what happened if you didn't eat meat cuz his vegetarian dad went bald.
Our parents told us if we ate our potato skins we would be able to whistle when we grew up.
I told my daughter the hospital gives all new moms Santa's phone number.
My friends told me that her grandma told her that any time she forgot to switch off the lights a bunny rabbit dies :')
This is kinda of silly, but my sister and I always believed that she left her 'blankie' in a store when she was 5. I'm 35 now and recently I mentioned it, and I was blown away when my Mom said that actually wasn't true. She threw it in the garbage. LOL. Well played. We believed that for 30 years.
My Grandpa told me if I swallowed a watermelon seed, I would have melons growing out of my ears LOL
I like the 10,000 words per month. That would have worked on me, because I have always been a talker….
A lady on TV said to her kid that when the Ice Cream Truck would play it's song that would mean that they ran out of Ice Cream.
I used my pacifier and one night I slept in my older brother's bed and when I woke up it was gone. I was convinced it had fallen behind the
bed and that it was my last one. I believed this till my brother cleaned out under his bed and didn't find it. My mom then confessed she had
Load More Replies...When I was 4 or five I had a fish. His name was George and I love him so much. Apparently it died 5 times but 4 or those times I was at daycare so my mom would replace it while I was gone and wouldn’t tell me. It ended up dying on a Saturday and I lost my mind. I actually thought a beta fish could last a year in a half. Until last year when my mom actually told me what happened. 😂
One of my friends has a story about her mum telling her that every time she forgets switch off the lights a bunny rabbit dies!! Aparetlly this worked perfectly :'D
A sense of humour should be a requirement for using the internet. Awe ... are you offended? Princess ... P.S. You're still a troll if you call someone else a bad parent because you think you're perfect. Go hide under your bridge and let the rest of us live happily ever after just doing the best we can at being humans, and not some pitiful a*s living in their own world under a bridge of ignorance and closed mindedness.
Okay some of these were funny, some were sweet, but most were really effed up.
Horrible, horrible parenting. Is it really that difficult to just say to your kid the truth? Some of the phrases are even so ironic that tell lies to keep their kids from telling lies.
We tell our kids that if the music is playing on the ice cream truck it means they ran out of ice cream:)
I think many of these are very good for developing paranoia! Mentally traumatizing! And so many are just for parents' selfish benefits and NOT for kids' education!