Lies we tell our children?

selloptape

My ex sadly had to have a pet cat put down and told our son that he had given the cat to a nice old lady who could look after him now he was getting old. Our son was in nursery at the time but could still hold a grudge like nobodies business and was upset with his dad for "giving my cat away" for about three years until ex FINALLY told him the cat was dead.

I didn't get so much lied to by my own parents but just had information withheld, there was a lot of. "When you're old enough to know" and "because I said so" which I've tried to avoid as a parent myself and just be honest where I can.

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Primrose

As a kid the ice cream Antonio van used to come round ringing his chimes. My dad wouldn,t let us buy his ice cream because he said they made it in a po which was kept under the bed! I always smile and remember this when I hear an ice cream van's chimes. I could never get an answer out of my dad though why the ice cream didn't melt if it was normally kept under the bed !

lizzy85

Yeah I do with my little daughter. I think all parents do just to prevent their kids from getting upset. Sometimes I tell lies to get her do what I want.

LynS

Back in the 60s our local corner shop sold just about everything. We had a coal fire in those days and my parents would often buy firelighters which the shopkeeper would wrap in newspaper. He also used newspaper to wrap ice-cream bricks which was an occasional treat for us. On those days, my parents would have my brother and I making a wish that the firelighters would turn into ice-cream and, amazingly, they always did! I tease them about it now, and it has passed into family legend.

JimmyTheWig

I told our son that the machines in the gents were bubblegum machines.

Former_MSE_Andrea

gt568 wrote: »

When the ice cream van plays a tune, it means they have sold out. They do it to save you going outside if they haven't any ice cream left....

That rings a bell

susieq87

My little brother who was about 4/5 at the time was rummaging through my handbag and found my tampax, the ones in the yellow wrapper and he got so excited thinking it was a sweetie. I dont remember the lie but i do remember him asking "well, if it's not a sweetie what is it?"

JP08

selloptape wrote: »

I didn't get so much lied to by my own parents but just had information withheld, there was a lot of. "When you're old enough to know" and "because I said so" which I've tried to avoid as a parent myself and just be honest where I can.

Indeed "Why ?" "Because." "What's that ?" "Whim Wam to wind the sun up." - thanks Mum !

Did manage to convince the kid next door that spoons grow from seed - had a teaspoon in a plant pot I'd been using to extract some seedling. Three days later it was a desert spoon, then a table spoon, then ... well you get the idea.

Also had a young work colleague convinced that turkeys gave birth to their young live - that was why you never saw turkey eggs for sale !

mgarl10024

I remember as a child, when selecting Christmas/Birthday presents that my parents disapproved of, being told that my Mum worked with a guy who had one already and he didn't think it was very good.

It didn't matter what I wanted. It could have been a water pistol or a remote controlled hovercraft, that guy had one already.

At one point I did start to wonder what this fully grown man was doing buying all these children's toys, and I remember being amazed by the staggering coincidence that each time he'd happen to have the exact toy (sometimes long before it came out in the shops) and he'd had it long enough to have formed his unfailingly negative opinion.

I do remember however a building dislike of this guy who had all these amazing toys.

wizzywilc

When I was about five my parents told me that my goldfish Herbie had died and that they'd buried him under the rose bush in the garden. I used to go and sit by the spot and pick flowers and put them there. This always seemed to upset my mother.

I was in my thirties before I discovered that Herbie had been consumed by my cat!