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.
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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.
Lies Parents Tell Their Kids
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
You were a real sweetheart!
When we didn't finish our oatmeal in the morning Pop fried it up for lunch and told us it was duck burgers.
MarkMcKenna haha
My dad used the word hibiscus as another word for horse droppings. I was so disgusted as I saw a hibiscus tea..
Coincidentally, my dad hates hibiscus tea.
meow point1 lol
Nice going, dad...
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.
You were a real sweetheart!
When we didn't finish our oatmeal in the morning Pop fried it up for lunch and told us it was duck burgers.
MarkMcKenna haha
My dad used the word hibiscus as another word for horse droppings. I was so disgusted as I saw a hibiscus tea..
Coincidentally, my dad hates hibiscus tea.
meow point1 lol
Nice going, dad...