Little White Lies that we tell our Kids

crispeater

i do the ice cream van playing music means they've run out and that the noddy car at asda and the thomas at sainsburys are broken lol

sometimes i say that the sweets at the checkout arent actually sweets but poison and give you bad tummy ache

bexsta-star

These are great and bringing back memories of mine before they started school. The cars etc outside supermarkets - you can sit in them but some naughty children have broken them - they just don't work!! Sweets at the counters are really really bad for you, they make all your teeth fall out. And the toys in Woolworths are not for buying, oh no, they are just for looking at! That pre-school age is fab - they will believe anything you tell them.

I still remember my Nana telling me that Grandad rescued her on a white horse from the Tower/Hunting Lodge at Lyme Hall, Stockport (where Pride and Prejudice was filmed - the scene where Colin Firth emerges from the lake!!) and believing (for quite a long time after) that it must be true, after all my Nana had said it. We recently visited the place again and I just had to tell mine the same story and bless them they were enthralled.

rosieben

We told my dgd that the chimes came from the potato man's van!!!

Biggles

Is telling the truth and instilling some level of discipline in your children going out of fashion, rather than making a rod for your own back with lies that will soon be found out?

liney

I robbed an old lady because my mom told me that Santa was watching me through the little window in the living room, so i better behave. I now know Santa wasn't watching me, my mother is a liar and we no longer speak, and therefore i can plan my criminal activies in peace ....

Get a grip Biggles. LoL


All the carrots in out house are frm Peter Rabbit, potatos from grandads garden, and apples are Sporticus's (sp) Sports Candy. I am sure my son will turn into a delinquent for telling him such lies ) but in the mean time he eats fruit and vegetables.

We also took him to a pond with lilly pads where the Frog Prince used to live don't you know.

Toys in Woolies and Toys R Us are left by Santa so that he can show us the kind of toys he likes, so we can tell Santa. We are not allowed to buy any this time of year though, because the other children have to look and show their mommy's which ones they like too.

mummy_Jay

My 3 yr old wants to know about babies, he knows mummy made him in her belly so when i get questions like "where do they come out"

A special hole appears just below the bump when the babies ready to come out

"whats it called"

I don't know (I sadly use this alot when I feel he's too young to know these words/things)

"how do you make one"

Mummy has to get a little piece of magic from a daddy to make one, mummy's not allowed to make another baby without a daddy, mummy was only allowed to do this once

As much as I would like to tell him the truth, he's way to young to know about these things

Grandad knows santa and tells him all about my boy and that grandad, the childminder & play school will all talk to santa before xmas, to tell santa if he's been a good boy

My dad is actually the worst one everything from you get pipples on your tongue for telling lies to elephants live in trees. My favorite one was always the story of the haggis, that have 3 legs two longer than the other and run round the hills in scotland clockwise and sound like bagpipes but they would as that what bagpipes are made from the skins of dead haggis. My dad is a great story teller, it's a shame he has to insist they are true, telling my boy elephants live in trees when he was only 2 caused such confussion. I do tell him off and now to my sons delight I put him on the naughty step for trying to convince him this rather big whoppers are true. At 3 some things are too much. (I now feel like a bit of a hypercrit)

squibbs25

liney wrote: »

Toys in Woolies and Toys R Us are left by Santa so that he can show us the kind of toys he likes, so we can tell Santa. We are not allowed to buy any this time of year though, because the other children have to look and show their mommy's which ones they like too.[/quote

I just LOVE that one...... :rotfl: :T

Amanda65

I used to tell mine when they were younger that if the lights were flashing on a ride outside a shop (Thomas, Noddy etc.) it was a way of letting the engineer know that the ride had broken down so he knew to come and fix it

liney

mummy_Jay wrote: »

My dad is actually the worst one everything from you get pipples on your tongue for telling lies to elephants live in trees. My favorite one was always the story of the haggis, that have 3 legs two longer than the other and run round the hills in scotland clockwise and sound like bagpipes but they would as that what bagpipes are made from the skins of dead haggis. My dad is a great story teller, it's a shame he has to insist they are true, telling my boy elephants live in trees when he was only 2 caused such confussion. I do tell him off and now to my sons delight I put him on the naughty step for trying to convince him this rather big whoppers are true. At 3 some things are too much. (I now feel like a bit of a hypercrit)

I thought a haggis was a animal in Scotland until i was about 9. Blame my grandad for that one.

positivelymummy

i tell my children i know if they're lying, i tell them to let me see their tongue, then i say "yep, its changed colour, you're telling a lie" know i def know if they're lying cos they refuse to speak or open their mouth/show their tongue:D

when i was little, for some reason everything that my dad came home with for me, he told me giants had made for me? i grew up believing my dad went to work with giants everything seemed to be centred around giants, like at parks the huge stone planters were giants eggcups, i believed that for years:D