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Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, "eating carrots will make you see in the dark," "TV will rot your brain," "we're almost there" – parents say all sorts of untruths to their kids! Perhaps it's for protection, to make things more understandable, or to keep the magic and fantasy alive.
Sometimes though, it's not all that jolly – so here are a few tales about the worst lies people ever caught their parents telling!
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#1
That my parents split up cos they was young. At 13 I found out that my dad had "cheated" on my mum and she couldn't forgive him. I then found out that this "cheating" had resulted in a 12 year old boy (yes they split when I was 5 weeks old) who both my parents knew about but I didn't.
At 21 I found out my father was r***d. Men being raped by women, especially in the military, didn't really happen 30 years ago. No one thought anything of the barmaid serving my dad free drinks all night and insisting on taking him to his room.
My dad woke up the next morning to 4 things
A note from the woman telling him she had a good time
My mums engagement ring from when she'd caught him
A hell of a custody battle on his hands which he lost
A lifelong alcohol addiction.
Just a side note - when my dad eventually told my mum as adults that he didn't consent to the "cheating" and he sought help she was really understanding and they are now good friends and coparents
S Mi 2 years ago
This story is important. Men can be sexually assaulted. Too drunk to be coherent is too drunk to consent
Rain Anderson 2 years ago
I would probably get downvoted for this BUT, why would you ever divorce your partner if they were abused ? LIKE WHY? you are LITERALLY supposed to comfort them.
Bols 2 years ago
This was described in the last paragraph I believe, that he admitted that it was assault years after the incident...
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#2
That my mother was schizophrenic. I was 15 and knew she had been battling depression for years. Schizophrenia runs in our family and as an angsty teenager it was very easy for me to believe that she was crazy. She was completely convinced that my father had a secret second family. She was diagnosed and medicated for years. He did have a second family.
Featherking 2 years ago (edited)
Yep. This is it - this is real gaslighting. The term is being overused a bit these days I’ve noticed, but this is the genuine article.
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Rain Anderson 2 years ago
For some weird reason, I did. There's actually quite a lot of examples, where mentally ill patients said something but they were dismissed because they are ill , but that turned out to be true later .
Load More Replies... Panda Kicki 2 years ago
Here we had a patient in a psyc ward insisting tve staff caught the squirrel he kept seeing. Luckily a staff later saw the squirrel before the poor patient was put on anti psycosis meds.
Jonathan Setter 5 months ago
just because you are paranoid and crazy does not mean you are wrong.
#3
That the 2K I earned at my summer job would be safe in my mom's savings account until I wanted to withdraw it later. Never saw that money again.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Absolute twaddle. If you have responsible non-sociopathic parents, it's a good idea; otherwise, not so. Use your judgement as in all things.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
My mom confiscated a good amount of inheritance money. I overheard her and her husband at the time arguing about me getting the money. She said "That's too much money for her. I don't want her to have it. She will just waste it. Why was it only the grandkids that got any inheritance?" She's a cold, cold woman. If I recall, I was allowed to have a little bit of the money for back to school clothes and gear. The rest she put in an education plan fund. I remember meeting with a banker who came to our place. Wasn't really too clear on what was going on, though. I was about 14 years old. She set it up. I didn't end up going to college but did end up in a situation I needed 1k. So I called up my mom asking for access to the fund for that much, rather than asking her for money. She blew up at me, told me any interest accrued would disappear. She apparently changed the account to be for my daughter right after. Never mentioned it much since, and she has hinted she has no education fund for her
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I think my mom spent the money. She scares me, in general, so I'm afraid to ask. Not like my daughter doesn't have a generous fund her Dad's family set up that she has been allowed to use since for medical expenses not covered by the province.
Load More Replies... Rain Anderson 2 years ago
Sorry to break it out to you people , people aren't trustworthy even if they are your parents. Yes , they can betray you , when you are at your worst. Forget the 'a mother's love is unconditional ' thing.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago (edited)
Of all the kinds of people I hold in complete and utter contempt, parents who steal from their children are in the top five. >:(
J 2 years ago
My mother was exactly the same when me and my brother were growing up. I started “working” at 10 years old, my brother was 9, we gave the money to our mother for “safekeeping” but never saw it again. This happened on many occasions and she spent many years guilting us into getting any odd job we could and taking the money. She was a gambling addict, I never forgave her for doing that or leaving me to look after my two sisters who were 4 and a baby at the time. The youngest thought I was her mum ☹️
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
I was the oldest of five when my father died when I was fifteen. His employer stole his pension (quite legally, of course). Every dollar I made from summer and after school jobs I handed over to my mom. Unlike the OP, I did see that money again. It showed up as food on my siblings' dinner plates. I wish I could have given her more.
Veronica Monell 2 years ago
Take your parents to small claims if you're mad, I would. But my mom would never do that.
#4
When I turned 5 my mom told me that my dad sent me money to buy a bike from prison for my bday present. He didn't, she just didn't want me to forget him so she gave him credit for it.
That Goth Demon (zey/zem) 2 years ago
That's nice of your mum to give your dad credit for that
#5
one year I made an agreement with my mom for my holiday present. I would pitch in $100 and she'd pitch in $100 and she'd get me a nice $200 laptop. Which was decent enough for a teen at the time.
Instead, she took my $100, and bought my brother and I each a s****y $50 notebook style laptop with no battery, no wifi, and a barely functional mouse ball. I was disappointed when I saw what she got and immediately suspicious. This was NOT a $200 piece of tech. I found the receipt from her order and had the receipt from the withdrawal and demanded to at least get my money back if she was going to reneg on our deal. She denied ever making such a deal, ever taking money from my account, and said I should be thankful I got anything at all.
For reference my family was by no means poor. My mom had a second antique car she drove in the summer. Dad had a boat, motorcycle, and ATV all high end bought new. And they took 2 vacations a year without us kids minimum. While I struggled to have lunch money on a consistent basis. This was the moment that solidified my belief that my parents didn't give a single f**k and I needed to *never* rely on them again.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
I went to kindy with a girl who wasn’t wanted, Lauren was her name and she stayed at mine alot , they (her family) had a goat in the house, (I had to ask my mum as I wasn’t sure it was a real memory etc). Turns out she was conceived out of spite by the mum cos the husband didn’t want kids, so they had a fight and she got pregnant by him. They both treated her like c**p, the goat however was indoor and doted on like crazy, had it’s own fireplace etc - the parents were lawyers. My mum tried to adopt her and s**t got the roof and her parents disappeared and never saw her again. I still look her her, her mums name surname was Hamilton. But from memory I vaguely remember (Lauren’s) her surname but have no idea how to spell it - Lauren eckleson/ecklson if you’re out there I’m still looking for you ❤️ we went to kindy at finger prints in worongary.
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Annie 2 years ago
My mom used to pull similar stunts: promised to pay me an allowance if I cleaned the house but then waited a week & said the house was now dirty so she wasn't going to pay me. She promised my brother & me that she was going to give us each money for college; I never expected the money because her promises were c**p, but my brother was very disappointed when she stiffed us.
Jonathan Setter 5 months ago
As a long time laptop repairing I can say NONE of what you say makes sense. Lets start with the price, unless you are talking about some weird foreign currency or a secondhand laptop, then no, never, none of prices are anywhere near reality. Secondly, notebook and laptop are interchangeable terms, they are literally the same thing. Now, you might have meant "netbook", which at one time was a very cheap underpowered notebook... but keep in mind they always came with the battery. The only laptops that came without a battery, were giant widescreen gaming laptops that cost thousands of dollars, definitely not what you are describing. So just no, whole story is bs.
#6
Oh man. That's a hard one to thin down to just one answer.
I'd have to say mine is this: my mom says I "started a fight" so that I could move out of her house. In reality, she tried to tell me that I couldn't go camping with my then 3 year old child (I was 18-19) and that she would call child protective services on me if I did. We got into a big fight, she told me to get the f- out of her house, so I grabbed my kid, some toys for her, some of her clothes, and my laptop -- and I left. If you ask my kid, who is now 14, what her earliest memory is, she will respond by telling you something along the lines of "my grandma holding my mom against the door by her throat".
It was great 🙄
SpongeBob SquarePants 2 years ago
When I was 18 my dad found out that I was apartment hunting. He threw me against the bathroom wall and started choking me. I found out later that he did the same thing to my older brother.
Mikey Kliss 2 years ago
I took my toddler camping last year when he was going on 2. It was fun
StrangeOne 2 years ago
It's her kid, despite her age. She's technically a legal adult at 18/19, and not considered a minor under parental control. She's allowed to live on her own, vote, drive, take out a credit card and loan in her name, invest in stocks and bonds if she wants to. If she wants to go camping with her toddler she has the right and freedom to do so.
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#7
One night I went downstairs to ask my mother something. My dad was a light sleeper and would get really pissed if anyone woke him up, so I whispered, "Mom! Mom!"
All of a sudden my dad sat up and yelled at me to get lost. They told me I should never sneak up on them because they had a gun and my dad thought I was an intruder and almost shot me.
They scared the beejeezus out of me. Sometimes when I tried to get to sleep I'd remember how my dad almost shot me. For years. Even after I moved out.
Decades later, I mentioned it to my mom. She started laughing and told me they were having sex. There was no gun.
#8
"I won't get mad at you."
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I told my daughter that if she told me the truth she might still be in trouble, if I found out later that she was lying then her punishment would be worse.
Brazen 2 years ago
My Mom used to say something similar. She would be more upset if I lied and it wouldn't be as bad if I told the truth. Well wouldn't you know...she lied.
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StrangePenguin 2 years ago
followed up by: “why don’t you trust me” i know these all too well
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HanJisungieIsASquirrel 2 years ago
Bonus points if you’ve trusted your parents enough to tell them who you are and they reject you and act colder to you
InvisibleQuokka 2 years ago
That’s basically my entire friend group (also I’m a stay)
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Blondie23 2 years ago
Parents that lie about this are pure c**p! My hubby and I tell our kids we won't be mad and then when they confide in us we aren't mad. We can't be, we told them we wouldn't be. We both grew up with parents that lied about this so we are breaking that and instead are being there for our kids.
#9
The worst lie? I was diagnosed with a chronic cancer at 16, and my mum got drunk and told all of my friends that my doctor had told her that I only had a year to live.
Found out through my friends when they started giving me excessive condolences.
Emailed my doctor, he never said that. Still don’t know why mum did that, my main theory was that she was scared.
WindySwede 2 years ago
Wanting some attention, get people to feeling sorry for her. Or to show that prayers work for cancer?
Mighty_Condor (He/Him) 2 years ago
IDK, if she bought cigarettes with the specific intent of giving cancer yes, but if not then I don't think so.
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Enuya 2 years ago
Maybe it's a stupid question but what's a chronic cancer? And how is it different from "regular" cancer?
ColdSteelRonin 2 years ago
Breast, ovarian, prostate, leukemia and some other blood cancers are considered to be chronic
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#10
Found out when I was 25 I have a sister one yr older than me that they gave up for adoption, I'm 37 and been searching for her for the past 10 yrs.
Travelling Stranger 2 years ago
you need to go to the Even_Future2580 account on reddit to get answers to your questions
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Don't give up! It took me 40 years to find and connect with my 6 siblings. DNA testing helped a lot.
Jo Davies 2 years ago
It doesn't need to be a bad thing. My brother was adopted by a wonderful family and he lived a great life, better than my mum could have offered him.
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#11
"We are going to denmark for only a month" we are still here after 4 years
Menno 2 years ago
Despite Denmark not being the worst place on earth, it's mostly about trust: you really want your parents to be the most reliable people in the world. If their promises turn out to be empty, it can shake your entire being.
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Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
It's supposed to be one of the happiest countries on the planet (when Germany is behaving itself).
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
We're trying to (well, most of us are anyway).
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MiriPanda 2 years ago
A little bit of back story is needed here. Did the parents intentionally lie to the kid(s), dragging the lie out little by little ("just 4 more weeks" followed by "just 8 more weeks")? Awful. Or was there genuine intent to stay only briefly, but then something changed in their country of origin, financially, or at work and the parents genuinely didn't know what to tell them about the length of their stay?
LilliVB 2 years ago
It could be also that they were running away from a country where human and political rights aren't the best. Telling the kid would have increased the risk of someone else getting to know the intentions and maybe arriving to the authorities. So they intentionally lied to be safe.
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#12
That they couldn’t afford to pay for college. So I took a job during the day and paid my way through night and weekend school.
Turns out I had a decent trust fund from my grandfather. I could have graduated and started working for a higher wage 4 years earlier. I tell myself that graduating in 2008 wouldn’t have been a good idea anyway.
Menno 2 years ago
How does a trust fund actually work? Is it money that is solely available for the designated goal or could the parents abuse it for their own good as well?
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
It's my understanding that someone is appointed as executor of the fund, similar to a will. That's probably how OP's parents robbed him.
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PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
Omg me and my sister had money left to us by great grand parents we never met, he kept the money and spent it alllllll - on pilots lessons and c**p while we lived in poverty. Still dirty about it, so is my sister. But I’m like f**k me, I could of just gone to uni fully paid instead being a stripper and working nights 😂
ColdSteelRonin 2 years ago (edited)
Had a friend that pissed away his trust fund. the stipulation was that he could take a monthly draw as long as he was taking college courses. Didn't have to take more than one class at a time, didn't have to graduate (but upon graduation he would receive the remaining balance) and school didn't matter, could have been community college taking basket weaving. He didn't finish his second class
MezzoPiano 2 years ago
"I tell myself that graduating in 2008 wouldn’t have been a good idea anyway." Graduated in 2008. Can confirm.
#13
We moved when I was 4, and we didn’t bring my parent’s 5-year-old cat with us. When I asked, they said they put her in a shelter and she’d be fine, some little old lady would probably adopt and coddle her.
They euthanized her. She was perfectly healthy, and they didn’t even give her up to the shelter. They just straight-up had her killed because she sometimes had hairballs.
Xenon 2 years ago
This makes me freaking furious!! At least re-home the cat ffs. Horrible people.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I worked for a veterinarian for 17 years and there's NO FREAKING WAY we would put a young healthy cat down. We would have legally taken possession and rehomed the poor baby. We even stopped euthanizing animals that had never been to the clinic before. Who knows if you are euthanizing their neighbors dog that annoys them? Anyway, you are correct in your assessment of their shittyness.
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Monarch cat lady 2 years ago
People make me sick. To go on vacation you killed an animal that loved you and counted on you. People who think animals don't matter are a waste of oxygen
StrangeOne 2 years ago
ToT I hate people that kill animals just for very, very cruel, selfish reasons.
nm 2 years ago
During the pandemic many families bought dogs, to use them as excuse for walking and going out during quarantine. Afterwards these a******s abandoned the animals in the street. F*****g bastards.
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Queeqec 2 years ago
So glad that this is illegal in Austria where I live. (Europe, not down under. Austria, not Australia)
NukerYT 2 years ago
If anyone ever hurts my cat on purpose they will have some strawberry jam up there nose, if you know what I mean
Tim 2 years ago
Strawberry jam like what Ned Flanders told his kids about when Itchy stabbed Scratchy with the broken bottle?
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
If your cat is not purring, your cat might have a hairball. Many years ago I had a cat. never much paid attention that she never purred. One time she cough up a hairball. After that she started to purr.
#14
After my mom died, my dad fell into [illegal substances] hard. My brother is autistic and he would get both Disability and SSA by check (this was before the Direct Express cards). Several times a year he would go to cash the checks, stay gone all day and then come home and claim his wallet was "stolen". Then the next day his wallet would *miraculously" reappear with everything in it except the money. I'm not even sure how in the world he managed to pay our rent or if he wasn't, why our landlord never kicked us out. We certainly didn't have electricity on (legally) most of the time, nor a phone or internet and what little food we had was through food stamps and me babysitting for my neighbor. I suppose you could claim he was using the money to pay the rent but the rent was only $350 (our landlord was a slumlord) and my brother got about $900 each month. I eventually got to the point where I didn't believe the "stolen wallet" story.
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
I had a colleague a while back whose husband was up to a lot of dodgy stuff, not that she said ant
Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago
Dammit! Posted without letting me finish! Long story short, we all knew he was suspicious. They were saving to buy a flat - well, she was, since he didn't do much of anything except take a few photos from time to time. Then he told her all his gear had been stolen from under a table in a restaurant - we're talking long tripods and all, here - while he was having dinner with about a dozen people, but nobody saw anything. She had to hand over her hard-earned savings so he could buy new equipment. All of us knew it was a lie, but she went along with it. Soon after they left and moved to the ends of the earth. We all wondered if she ever confronted him about his lies, or if she stuck with him for the sake of her kid.
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My mother inadvertently confessed to me that she read my sister’s diaries to catch her in a lie, but that she could never let my sister know she did it because it would destroy their trust.
Years later I asked her if she’d ever read any of her kids diaries, after I realized she knew something about me she couldn’t have known otherwise. She gave me a puzzled look and said she’d never snoop through her kid’s stuff because it would break their relationship if she got caught. I reminded her of how she did it to my sister. She looked very nervous and said “I didn’t think you’d remember that..” and quickly changed the subject.
So, not confirmed but I’m mostly certain my mom has read through my journals as a kid and went through my room when I wasn’t home .
Not the worst lie, but yeah.
nia not long 2 years ago
My grandmother did this to my mom and she never journaled again after that because she didn't feel her private thoughts were safe anywhere else but her mind
IDGAFabtUrFeelings 2 years ago
My mother did the same to me. I stopped journaling as well.
Load More Replies... Helena 2 years ago
After mom broke my lock, I started writing in my own made-up cipher. I take my privacy seriously.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
My mom would've caught on and demand to know what the symbols mean, and if I made up an alibi she would jump to her own conclusions. I hated being a kid.
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PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
Ewww. So lucky mine always was against that, she said even kids deserve privacy and she didn’t own us etc
Brian Droste 2 years ago
If a young person is going to have a journal need to get one with a lock and make sure you hide the key where the parents can not find it.
#16
*"if you go to a private college, we'll pay all your tuition."*
got accepted to an amazing private college, handed them the bill and...
*"no, not like that!"*
needless to say, I did NOT go to that amazing private school. 23 years later and I'm still bitter about it.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
I was lucky enough to win a scholarship and obtain grants for college, and I graduated owing my parents about £2000. I had that paid back within 3 months of starting work. 30 years later, my mother still harps on about the sacrifices they made to be able to afford to send me to college, how hard she'd worked, how much money they'd given me and how ungrateful I was. All this, continually, despite me having evidence of how much they'd actually given me and when I paid it all back. All the money I handed over to them a few years later so they didn't lose their house never gets a mention. Some parents are just toxic.
Agamemnon O'Neill 2 years ago
Same. Got scholarships and grants. My mother's entire contribution was $800 in rent to get me through second semester of my first year and I have never heard the goddamn end of how she "paid for university."
Load More Replies... JMil 2 years ago
This happened to me as well (except I still attended just with a ton of debt). What makes me most bitter is I would have planned better and been super aggressive about scholarships and aid. They did provide some decent help for one year, but then I was entirely on my own. Also bitter that I would have done much better in school if I wasn't working so dang much. (Final note, my parents were divorced and remarried and it was just one side that promised, so I'm not bitter at the "better" set of parents which is good.)
SlothyK8 2 years ago
I wanted to attend a small private liberal arts university in California. My evangelical mother didn't want me to go to college at all and told the admissions officer that the school was "a dump and my daughter is going here". Needless to say, I didn't get in. She also refused to sign my financial aid paperwork (we were broke, so I'd have probably gotten tons of aid), so I had to work full time to put myself through a public university. My dad got laid off from his job and I ended up having to drop out at the end of my junior year to get a higher paying job to support them. I will never not be bitter....
Victorya Chase 2 years ago
Similar story. Mine said that they wouldn't buy me a car and like they did my brother because they knew I was going to get into college and not him so they were saving for my college My brother got like three cars cuz he continuously crashed them and of course I got nothing
Jonathan Setter 5 months ago (edited)
When my dad died my mum got a bit of money from the inheritance. So she absolved my sister from the thousands of dollars my sister owed her. Me? She sold me my fathers car. Yes sold. I got it appraised and gave her that much. And sold it at a profit eventually, so stuff her. Then she lent me $20000AUS to do a computer course so i could get a career. I paid her back the lot within 2 years. But she still carried on about how much she had given me and how much i owed her, and everytime i had to point out I had paid her off and still had the paperwork to prove it. When she died, she left the 4 bedroom house to my sister... and left me $15000AUS. The probate lawyers took $10,000, but hey, at least my sister got a house, right? Favouritism
Jeannie Miller 2 years ago
For the USA I call BS. Prestigious universities don't turn people away fro inability to pay.
#17
They had no idea what that weird smell was in the basement when I was a kid. From around 8 years old to about 16, my mom would go down to do laundry and my Stepdad would go down to talk to her. I thought for the longest time it was just their little adult gathering place. They would even had their friends go down there as well. When they went down, a few minutes later, I would smell this odd smell.
As I got older, and got in high school, I had a more "rebel" sister. I finally found out what the smell was through her.
It was marijuana...lol. Oddly enough, going through D.A.R.E and all that, I always thought it would basically rot your brain and turn you into some type of zombie. That was a lie.
Rain Anderson 2 years ago
I have read too many crime thrillers and thought that they hid a body 🤦🏻♀️
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
When I was in boarding school I was the only one in my dorm who didn't smoke weed in the bathroom at night. I'd get sick on the smell. Second-hand high, so to speak.
bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
parents did a similar thing lol, figured it out way earlier though, wonder how it took OP that long
#18
My Dad used to tell me that he learned all of his cool tricks and skills in "Daddy School." I'm now 28, married and still have not been enrolled.
Holly Stevens 2 years ago
My Dad told me the same thing. I learned that Dad school is just your Dad. I'm a single mum, but I learned all the Dad school stuff
WindySwede 2 years ago (edited)
School for all parents would be good.. both for ethics and morale? But easy to say when I want good things. But if they where taught that males are superiors,that would not be good...
Erica Cousineau Doss 2 years ago
Daddy School is the same as Mommy School and Grandparent School and Relationship School…. it’s called “Learning to adult by living”, everyone’s lessons are different and we all walk away with a different education.
#19
That because of my 3.2 high school GPA I may have to "go back" to the German equivalent of high school — even though I had graduated and was in my first semester of college — if I moved there when my family did.
My Dad's company was transferring him to Germany in 1990. I had graduated high school in 1989 and was in my first year of community college (at the time).
Truth is they just didn't want me to come along because I was 19 and to them I should be on my own already. So they made it sound like I would have a very hard time getting into college in Germany because of their very high educational standards.
I knew my situation was weird because I was an adult and Germany's education (especially higher) system works differently, but I know plenty of young adult peers who followed their parents over when they got transferred (I came from a town where the company employed just about everybody, so a lot of families continued to be friends overseas). I bumped into two people I went to school with when I would visit them, and their GPAs in high school had been lower than mine.
The result is that my kid brother got the best education someone might get, while I ended up trying to make ends meet after my attempt at the military failed. That's not jealousy or envy, I say these things to show what the results of believing or making up BS stories instead of just being honest can do. I actually don't regret the path I've taken, but I do wonder how my life would be different if I had been able to live over there with them for a while, and it does make me angry to think my parents would make up something like that just out of some notion that a 19 year old adult son barely out of high school would be "dead weight" for them.
Tumbah 2 years ago
It's actually not technically wrong, however OPs parents are TA for not supporting OP in getting a top tier education in Germany. The German school system which leads to University (Gymnasium) is 13 years, and they are typically at least one year ahead of US schools educationally. Higher education is pretty competitive and admission can be highly selective depending on your choice of major, only set numbers of students are admitted per major, per university. Depending on a combination of HS courses and GPA (must be over 3.0 unweighted), the OP may have had to do extra studies in order to attend a German University. Although, there is also an exam(subject/major specific) that can allow one to jump to the University from having a US HS degree plus 1 year of college.
#20
I would hide in the pants 👖 displays at Walmart as a child. My mom told me “you know how they make shorts 🩳 don’t you? A man comes by with a chainsaw and cuts the pants into shorts. & if your inside the rack. He will cut you in half.
Xenon 2 years ago
Ok this is mildly amusing, as long as the op was old enough to realize it wasn't true.
Tim 2 years ago
Maybe, maybe not. Kids that hide in clothing displays are usually pretty young.
Load More Replies... Persephone 2 years ago
I'm sorry but this is kind of hilarious! Dire situations of misbehaving kids require dire solutions! 🤣
#21
That’s normal sibling rivalry.
No it wasn’t normal. You guys just didn’t want to deal with s**t and the s**t you caused by setting up a situation where you pitted my older sibling against me and then punished me when I fought back.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
I thought so too, but when I spoke to my sister who’s the golden child, she had repercussions on the other end of the scale that I didn’t. So either way it’s s**t when you play favourites with kids.
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The Kitten Overlord 2 years ago
It’s the other way around in my household! I’m the oldest, and when my parents see us having fights, we’ve learned the best way to avoid parents getting in our business is to say “It’s just sibling stuff.”
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
Thing is, that _is_ normal sibling rivalry. Perhaps 'common' would be a better word than normal, but sibling relationships are always largely a result of the situation their parents have created for them, usually (I assume no ill will) with no intent or awareness that they're doing so.
Lisa Casserly 2 years ago
For me, it was the opposite way. I was older. Had to "set a good example" for her, had to give her everything so she'd be quiet, had to give in to her on everything because "she was the baby". Well, I'm now 57, and she's 54. She's a horrible, spoiled, monster person. They are still blaming ME for all the c**p she does... like get arrested, etc. Wish I'd walked away from them all decades and decades ago, instead of wasting more than a half century of my life on this c**p.
Alexis Daniels 2 years ago
I struggled with this situation. My brother suffered from severe anger issues and if he thought that you had even looked at him wrong he would punch or kick you. At even the slightest thing he would hurt me and, while I probably wound him up, I was just a child that was trying to have a normal relationship with my brother. He never got told off for hurting me and I was the one who was yelled at for 'provoking him'. I think they were so tired of being his punching bag that they forced me into the role so they'd get a break.
#22
....This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you....yeah, right.
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
"I hit you because I love you" (not my parents, but someone else's).
Sapient Mulch 2 years ago
And a much worse beating for me when I replied, "Then really punish me and let me beat you"!
#23
They told me if I was lying there would be bubbles on my tongue. So when they asked me something and they thought I was lying they'd tell me to stick out my tongue. If I knew I was telling the truth, I'd open my mouth confidently and show off my bubble-free tongue. If I was lying, I'd try to scrape the bubbles off with my teeth.
I now use it on my son. Still works.
Sky Render 2 years ago
Classic. At one time parents used to tell their kids that their noses grew bigger when they lied, and they knew the kid was lying if they started rubbing their nose afterward.
WindySwede 2 years ago
Or the one with a red dot on forehead, I think it was. And the kid placed a hand on forehead when not telling the truth..
Load More Replies... Persephone 2 years ago
ADHD brain: "what if there's bubbles anyway?!? Better scrape tongue anyway so they know im telling the truth!!!!"
חני פרוכטמן 2 years ago
I never get it. Why would someone lie to their kid in order to teach them not to lie? This is so wrong.
SadFatTortilla 2 months ago
I told my son that his ears would turn red. Worked pretty well lol
#24
That kids in africa are dying if i don’t eat my whole plate
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
I usually responded by suggesting that she put the rice pudding/skin of the custard in an envelope and post it to them.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
my mom posted pics of starving kids in africa on the fridge and told us that she would only take them down if we stopped complaining about the quality of our meals....it worked on my...the pictures really upset me...they would go up again when my older sibs started complaining again...i still don't see anything wrong with that...that and donating food really taught me about empathy and gratitude....but the mom described above...well...that's just sick.
Plant Wizard 5 months ago
Yep same thing. Took them years to realize I did not eat the stuff because I was allergic to it!
Jonathan Setter 5 months ago
the simple answer is "cool, send it to them then because i aint eating it"
Chris 6 months ago
my dad one time told me during thanksgiving dinner if i didnt eat everything on my plate id have to sit there until i did so about 4am my mom came and told me to go to bed and she'd wrap my plate up for breakfast when i wake up because people were starving in some random country that i still have no idea where it even was or if it was real
Saeyoul Akiyune 1 year ago
I've heard this, or something along those lines, as I was growing up. I was never a huge fan of food/eating so it didn't really affect me either way and I still left spoils on the plate (I still do and I'm 25/26), but yup, heard it quite often 🤷♀️
#25
My mom tried to tell my daughter, at my dinner table infront of my husband and I, that I had wanted to get married in her backyard. This was an attempt to validate her taking over my wedding (and ruining it for me) and to 'back me into a corner and agree with her.' Hubs and I shut that down real f*****g fast.
#26
Up until I was 8 years old, they told me that daddy was away at college. We would go see him on weekends. Found out later that he was in prison. I wondered why we could only talk to him behind glass on a telephone...
R. McTavish 2 years ago
Cool thing about the us prison system is how it both makes it impossible for people to rejoin normal society and also puts career criminals in a position of authority over relative newbies. It pretty much is a sort of college, just not the good kind.
#27
When i was 4 We had a dog called Tilly, my mom said that she gave her away to a boy who couldn't speak and she died while saving him from drowning in a river Years later when i was around 13, my mom was on the phone to her friends and they were talking about their pets that passed away, turns out that tilly died because my mom was drunk and let her out the house, she ended up getting hit by a car
#28
That we (4 kids) would inherit about $9k each when our grandmother passed. There was some loophole my dad exploited (he said with his mother’s blessing) where he got all of the money (almost $40k, on top of whatever she gave him otherwise) and that giving it to us was a lie just so he didn’t have to pay taxes on it. At that point, why even tell us? I don’t think he really was meant to take that money.
I’d still be salty about it BUT he did pay for the first couple years of college for all of us (and my one brother’s entire Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers), so I guess it doesn’t matter in the long run. Still, s****y lies were told.
Bols 2 years ago
My Dad screwed us from inheritance form his parents when I was a kid :/ He called to say my Mom that she has to turn it down because we will inherit a lot of debt. Mom found out a year later that in Greek law at that time children could only inherit debt from parents, not grandparents... Not to mention it was the last time he called my Mom and he knew I was nearby because she was talking to me and didn't even ask about me... Eh someone hug me please, old wounds :/
Coralinea 2 years ago
My brother and I were promised something when my parental grandparents died. Never happened. My maternal grandma, who was the last one standing at that time, hid a cash box, gave me the other key, and whenever she had some spare cash she put it in that. There was everything from 10ct pieces to 100€ bills in, almost 3000€ for my brother and me to share. My parents never knew. And we didn't get anything through my parents when that grandma died either. (Despite being told so.) Yes, they paid in other ways, but if you do it this way, don't promise it.
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#29
They lied to me about my dog going to school, but it turns out he's dead😔
just me 2 years ago
My parents put my dog down. She was old, in pain, couldn't walk, had to be held up to go to the bathroom. Sometimes it's the right thing to do. I'm still ticked that they didn't tell me beforehand, but I guess they didn't want 5 year old me to be worrying over her dog all day at school.
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Lillian Charter 2 years ago
I had a hamster, called Betsy, we had her for years, we got a cat when I was 5 and gave betsy to my nanny's friend Angie, lovely woman, and I only saw her once after that, about 2 years later I asked if I could see her and they said she'd been dead fir a year but didn't want to tell me. I used to raise tadpoles from my nanny's garden and let them free at frogs and whenever they died I'd literally sob my frogging eyes out. I'm weak
#30
My dad told me that every pickle you eat adds 5 minutes on your life. I was like 5 and damn did I ever take that to heart.
Tiny bun 2 years ago
I told my brother that every bite of pickle his favourite Pokémon would get stronger lol
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
No, but at least eating a pickle gives you five minutes worth living!
#31
The whole story about Sinterklaas (the Dutch equivalent of Santa)
When I was 8yo I was devastated when they confirmed my suspicions he doesn't really exist. Not so much because of the fact he isn't real (I had figured that out on my own) but because they had lied to me!
For years I couldn't believe how parents can justify it to themselves to blatantly lie to their own children and promised myself I would never do that!
But then my daughter was born and I happily told her the same 'lies'.
Oh the hypocrisy 😆
RabidChild 2 years ago (edited)
I have zero regrets about lying about Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy - any of it. The joy and wonder it gave my son for those years was so worth being caught out as a lying liar that tells lies. Putting a little magic in someone's life, especially a child's, is never wrong even if it's not 100% true. These are not rotten, stinky black lies but glowing, shiny white lies and should be forgiven
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
When my sister and I were very young, my dad invented the Hanukkah bunny who lived in the special shrub by the front door. A little wonder in a child's life doesn't equate to a lie, in my opinion.
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Sea Squirrel 2 years ago
When I found out about Sinterklaas, I could hardly believe my parents bought all those presents and candy for us. We weren't rich and my mother almost never bought candy. I loved what they had done and decided to give them presents too.
megabeth 2 years ago
The reason I believed in Santa was because I was POSITIVE my folks couldn't afford to buy me so many toys! We couldn't afford that! Very sweet. I absolutely raised my son with all the magic.
Load More Replies... bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
better than my dad, told me on a random thursday before kindergarten, didnt even tell my mum that he was going to do it, or see if i understood properly. told people santa was dead lol
Hazel Sage 2 years ago
God, I would have been devastated if my mom if she had lied to me about Santa Claus! Not because of his realness (or lack thereof), but because I trusted her to never, *ever* lie to me. Lying and gaslighting were my abusive dad’s prerogative. Now I’m NC with daddy dearest, and happily living with my mom and siblings without wondering what else might be a lie.
Joshua David 2 years ago
If I was a person of faith, I probably wouldn't tell my kids about a santa claus. The reason for that is because I feel that it would be hard for them to believe in god after finding out something that they were supposed to believe very hard and was all a lie.
Debbie 2 years ago
There is also a lesson in it for kids: don't believe everything you are told. Search for the truth yourself (though please not on facebook or youtube...)
Tim 2 years ago
BUT.... the lies came from mom and dad. And some parents will die on that hill 50 years later for some dumb reason.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Milton Jones: if all my presents come from Santa, why do I have to spent Boxing Day writing "thank you" letters to all my relatives?
#32
My dad went into the ER with stroke-like symptoms. He ended up having a severe brain bleed that required immediate and major surgery. While he was laying in the ICU, my mother, who opened their computer to get insurance info, found messages on his linked in page, that he’d left open earlier that morning before I took him to the ER, from a woman he was engaged to in college. They had been having an affair for over a year.
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
💯 This is one of the rare occasions when divorcing somebody never recovering from a medical emergency is totally justified.
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When my sibling and I were young, we were tossing toys around that the Easter Bunny had left for us. My mom started yelling at us, “I did not buy those for you to treat them like that.”
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Tbf, Mom could have been overwhelmed and simply wasn't thinking properly at the time. Not that it's right, but this pales in comparison to many on this list. Moms make mistakes too.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
I agree. It's in the same ballpark as kids finding presents before Christmas that were meant to be coming from Santa. I boobytrapped the sitting room door with the snap things from Christmas crackers to catch Santa, nearly gave me aul fella a heart attack
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They told me the burnt pizza was just brown cheese….
#35
that they knew how the world worked
#36
You will break the PC if you touch the mouse during boot.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Not that far off. On the first Macintoshes you would fry the motherboard if you disconnected the mouse while the computer was on. I hear they fixed that.
Angela C 2 years ago
No one told me this one but I got it into my head that if you didn't shut the computer down properly (like from the start menu and then wait til you got the "it's now safe to turn off your computer" message) that it would blow up. So anytime it froze and I had to just power it off I'd hit the power button and run out of the room. When I was older and realized this was bs I realized that if I thought it was true, maybe my sister would as well. And she did. So when I'd want her to leave me alone I'd hover my finger over the power button until she ran away. She finally figured it out in like middle school when her teacher had to shut off the computer and it did not blow up. I was away at college at this point and got a very heated call from her after school that day.
#37
More of an omission: I was shooting the s**t with my grandmother, I can’t remember what she was talking about but she related it to my mother’s fight with breast cancer the year prior……..what fight with breast cancer?!?! I just nodded like I was in the loop. I guess it makes sense why I’m so reluctant to open up to people, look who built me lol
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Although...as a Mom with breast cancer, I can understand. My son was young when I was diagnosed and I intended on sharing after I was in remission. His dad lost a partial leg and my son had endured enough. I only shared with my son earlier as it is unfortunately terminal cancer. Parents protect children when possible although not coddling them to allow them to live in utter ignorance hopefully.
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Protection by omission. I wish you as long a life and as good quality a life for as long as possible.
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Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
This is a fair enough type lie. Mother clearly didn't want her child to worry. My own mother still doesn't know her grandson, my nephew, had cancerous tumour removed and chemotherapy, he didn't want her to worry so the whole family kept it quiet. Her son, his dad, had passed away 2 years prior at 56 and my darling nephew saw what she went through, never mind what he went through losing his dad at 18.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Mom is entitled to her privacy, but in this case OP is clearly at least a teen if not a full blown adult. It's a dangerous game to play, potentially making the last significant part of your relationship be a lie of omission. I'm not saying I would cut a parent off for this, but it would definitely sour things between us.
Load More Replies... Argie Smith 2 years ago
My sister had skin cancer, never told anyone in the family until years later. Then kept her daughter's illness a secret until she died, and did the same with her husband's illness and death from lung cancer. I wasn't even informed until years after his death so never went to the funeral. I live less than an hour away and could have supported them, but she wanted to wallow in it all by herself, and I never got to say goodbye to my niece or BIL. Needless to say, we are not close.
Libstak 2 years ago
OK, this is too much. My SIL kept alot of distance when my brother was dying too, she literally tried to deny us a final goodbye by telling us to stay home the day he died and she would call us when the hospital was ready for us. We waited 3 hours and then thought this is not right. We went to their home and nephew had just come back from hospital. He asked us why we weren't there, they were preparing to move my brother to the morgue. He had to ring and stop them so we could see him one last time in the bereavement part of the hospital. I will never forgive what she tried to do either. She didn't want to see us but was waiting for the death certificate at the hospital...which typically takes weeks to provide, she was all about not losing out on welfare payments, it makes me sick to think about.
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