Lies we tell our children?

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LilElvis wrote: »

That isn't a little white lie, it's rank stupidity. What if one child had been a little braver than the rest and had opened the door? You know exactly what the outcome could have been.

If you had the time to concoct the story you had the time to to fit a lock.

Or just tell them there is poison in there, AND fit a lock.

itsanne

We told our kids that "Eine Kleine Nacht Music" was a very rude phrase in German. They didn't question why they were allowed to use it and took great delight in shouting it out of the car window (not in the middle of the street ) for years before discovering the truth.

There's an old castle on a hill not far from where we live built from the teeth the tooth fairies collect .....

There's what looks like a cross sticking out of the water in one of the lochs. It's from the church in the sunken village .....


We haven't lied about anything 'real'.

System

I dont know if anyone else does this but if you are reading a pretty crap bedtime story do you make stuff up to make it more interesting?

1 we downloaded a while back called the soup princess was so boring i added an evil villain called Simon Cawl who was the harshest soup critic in all the land :rotfl:cawl is a welsh soup for those who dont know. I made that story so good

FBaby

I dont know if anyone else does this but if you are reading a pretty crap bedtime story do you make stuff up to make it more interesting?

Not every one has this kind of creative talent! Your kids are lucky

Armchair23

barbiedoll wrote: »

My mum used to solve everything apart from open fractures and accidental amputations, with Germolene. And possibly a Band-Aid, but only if more than a pint of blood was lost..:rotfl:

Ah the smell of Germolene I might just have to go out and buy some !

lika_86

Spinkz wrote: »

I dont know if anyone else does this but if you are reading a pretty crap bedtime story do you make stuff up to make it more interesting?

1 we downloaded a while back called the soup princess was so boring i added an evil villain called Simon Cawl who was the harshest soup critic in all the land :rotfl:cawl is a welsh soup for those who dont know. I made that story so good

My dad used to slip the odd killer whale into a story to see if I'd notice!

Dave_Pierce

I've always wondered if telling lies to children, such as Father Christmas, is one of the reasons why teenagers tend to rebel against their parents!

On a lighter note, I just told my 4 year old that Loopy Rabbit won't let her go into his holiday park next week if she doesn't eat her toast........

mellymoo74

I would never lie to a child so
Telling my nephew bacon grows on trees cos it's a type of vegetable
Eels are the hair from a horses tail
Aren't lies probably

mum2one

Baby_Angel wrote: »

When DD was about 4/5 she was always asking when she would have a baby sister or brother, just like her friends. We did lie to her saying maybe later, but not now. We hoped the question would go away. Even at 8 she was still asking a lot. Then we decided to tell her the truth about her elder sister passing away as a baby and she will simply have to make do with being a single child. She took it amazing well and even accepted death as part of life. She talks about it normally now.

Bless her heart, my sister had passed away at 18 mths old, I was born 2 yrs after she died, I always wanted a sister, xx

pigpen

mum2one wrote: »

Bless her heart, my sister had passed away at 18 mths old, I was born 2 yrs after she died, I always wanted a sister, xx

My sister died at 30 days.. I was born 1 week short of a year of her birth.. Worst thing my parents ever did having me as a 'replacement' .. My dad told me about her when I was 6 because I was desperate for siblings.. My parents split up when I was 3 .. My mother screamed her existence at me when I was first pregnant with my oldest.. Almost like she wanted the same to happen to me!! Until that point she didn't even know that I knew! .. Good job I did that would not have been a pleasant way to find out!!

I now have 8 other siblings since both parents had other children with people who already had children!!