Little White Lies that we tell our Kids

Carmina_Piranha_3

going against the grain here but i hate it when parents lie about machines being broken. if i've given my son his penny for the ride in mothercare after having his nappy changed then i want him to have his ride - not have to wait until all the parents who lie have gone because i don't want to be responsible for upsetting those kids. you even hear them lying about it before they get around the corner, they don't bother to check if the ride is in use before lying that it's broken. why not simply say you don't have the correct change, or tell them they can have a ride at such and such a time.

shopping is dull and knowing that he can have a go on thomas at the end of it makes it easier for my toddler to endure then i don't see a problem with that.

CharleneUK

LOL, good thread.

Just the other day dd2 wanted to know how she got inside my stomach as she was looking at some of my old pregnancy pictures.

Having just got home from work, tired, brain not working, I just blurted out that daddy gave me an egg and I swallowed it, it landed in my stomach and it grew into a baby (her) she was fascinated by this. I realised how this story may sound if any ADULTS overheard it! LOL

Don't worry, she will not be having this version for long, but at the age of 5, I don't see it causing any major harm.

Jacks_xxx

:wave: I've always been pretty big on telling my kids the plain honest boring truth - even if that meant that one of my daughter's dollies was called Vagina for at least two years. (Granny went PUCE. :rotfl: )

When I was 5 I smacked a kid as hard as I could, and knocked him flying - which was a huge shock for everybody because up 'til then I'd always been this quiet timid little thing. Nobody could understand it at all...

The day before this happened he'd told me Father Christmas wasn't real.

So I went home and asked my mum about it.

I said (more or less) "Mum... If Father Christmas is just a story for little children then it's ok to tell me now, cos I go to big school now and I'm a big sister."

"Don't you let Father Christmas hear you talking like that!" she replied in a scandalized whisper.

"Honestly...he's REAL????" I whispered back, and she nodded.

And I went to bed happy.

The next day the same boy told me I was a baby for believing in that stuff, and having previously checked the veracity of my beliefs with my mother whom I trusted...
I hit him as hard as I blimmin' could... :eek:

Not judging (kids end up believing all kids of weird things all by themselves anyway) - just telling a funny story.

Love Jacks xxx

mummy_Jay

CharleneUK wrote: »

LOL, good thread.

Just the other day dd2 wanted to know how she got inside my stomach as she was looking at some of my old pregnancy pictures.

Having just got home from work, tired, brain not working, I just blurted out that daddy gave me an egg and I swallowed it, it landed in my stomach and it grew into a baby (her) she was fascinated by this. I realised how this story may sound if any ADULTS overheard it! LOL

Don't worry, she will not be having this version for long, but at the age of 5, I don't see it causing any major harm.

:T :T
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that gets this awkward question and I have been warned by friends that if you teach them the correct words and they (in my case) repeat them in play school, it's your child that gets in trouble.

Carmina_Piranha_3

HAS ANYONE READ 'GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS' ?

oooops, caps sorry!

i saw an ad, one of the lies is 'wine makes mummy clever' :rotfl:

Biggles

I suppose the next one will be, "If you're naughty the paedophile will come and get you"?

I'll get me coat.....
;-)

maveli

CharleneUK wrote: »

LOL, good thread.

Just the other day dd2 wanted to know how she got inside my stomach as she was looking at some of my old pregnancy pictures.

Having just got home from work, tired, brain not working, I just blurted out that daddy gave me an egg and I swallowed it, it landed in my stomach and it grew into a baby (her) she was fascinated by this. I realised how this story may sound if any ADULTS overheard it! LOL

Don't worry, she will not be having this version for long, but at the age of 5, I don't see it causing any major harm.

Couple of days back the 3MW show (the one follows channel 4 news) was in the same line. The little one asked mother how he got in mothers stomach and mother replied that through the small door in her stomach. The kid asked whether he can see it and to which she said not now. Kid went to sleep and had this dream where he managed find the door and started walking throught the corridoors and finally reached a room asking "Daddy what are you doing here ?"

Red_Panda_2

Carmina_Piranha wrote: »

HAS ANYONE READ 'GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS' ?

oooops, caps sorry!

i saw an ad, one of the lies is 'wine makes mummy clever' :rotfl:

I have that book, was great until my eldest learnt to read, now he has read it all and whenever I go for a night out reminds me that wine does not make mummy cleaver it makes her drunk!!!

I did tell him that heelies only went up to a size 1 though and he cant have any as he is a size 2 - but he really does have the worst co-ordination in history and broke his arm earlier this year just playing in the garden, god knows what he would do on heelies.
was a white lie but better than him either breaking a leg or getting upset by me telling him he would not know how to use them.

nej

We often use the Wee Willie Winky thing at bedtime. We just say "Wee Willie Winky's coming!" and knock on something and DS (nearly 2) gets a bit better behaved (he calls him Winky-winky - bless!)

The other night I was rocking him on the chair and he was trying to
play with the controls on the cd player that we have a lullaby CD in and my wife knocked sharply on the bedroom door and he shot back up to cuddle me.

The strange thing is, we've never said "he's coming to get you" or mentioned that he'd do anything bad. Just "he's coming." I guess it's in our tone of voice or something.

Threadhead

nej wrote: »

Those ice-cream van tricks don't work in my house. As soon as she hears the bells, my wife jumps up yelling "Ice cream!" and comes and asks me if I've got any money.

I heard a fire engine today, and asked the 2yo who I childmind "what can you hear?" "Oh thats the ice cream man" she said. Hmmm - not quite; cue the "what does the fire engine say" conversation.

And, Santa's fairies hide in the tops of the curtains (and I know this to be fact, cos I actually SAW one when I was little)