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Telling little white lies to your child every now and then is certainly not a bad thing. In some cases, namely, that of Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy, bending the truth can inspire a sense of wonder in a kid's mind - and keep them on their best behavior if they know presents under the tree are at stake. Other times, these little lies are simply the only way to get stubborn, critical young minds to move in the right direction.
Using "alternative facts" in raising kids, however, can occasionally misfire. If your young detective catches you in a lie, you're in hot water. "Kids globalize and say, ‘My parent is a liar. Are they also lying about loving me?’" Canadian parenting expert Alyson Schafer told The Washington Post in 2015. On the importance of owning up to your funny lies, and making up for it, though, she added that “making a mistake gracefully is a really important parenting skill.”
In other words, as long as you make sure to backtrack and let them know that eating watermelon seeds won't actually turn them into a watermelon before they make it to high school, you're in the clear. A heartfelt apology and an ice cream cone also never hurt anyone.
Check out some of the most clever and funny things to say to your kids below, and if you still need more inspiration, you can find our previous post on this here. Also, don't forget to add yours to the list!
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#1
"I've always been pretty fascinated with space. When I was a little girl, my dad would take his ladder and put it on our lawn every night, and bring my outside to tell me he put the moon up for me. I believed him for years. He passed away a few years ago,and every night when I see the moon I think of him."
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#2
My mom brainwashed me as a kid. She put all of the candy out in the open and told me I could eat it whenever I wanted, but she'd hide the vegetables and tell me I could only eat them as a special treat at dinner. It worked. When I was six, I asked if I could have a bowl of Brussels sprouts for my birthday instead of a cake.
#3
I was told that every person gets 10,000 words per month. If you reach the limit, you can't physically speak until the new month begins. Anytime I was especially talkative, Dad would say, "Careful now, I have to think you are up over 9,000 by now." That would shut me right up.
#4
My dad said if I could look after a special growing rock, and watered it each day until it stopped growing I could get a dog. I'd water it and every week, while I was at school he'd replace it with a slightly bigger rock.
#5
Parents used to tell my only brother and I that we used to have another brother who turned into a mushroom from not taking a bath. Even added him to the family albums.
#6
"If the ice cream truck is playing music it means they have run out of ice cream."
#7
We got our daughter to eat fish by calling it "Argentinian Chicken". That worked for a long time until grandma came along and f*cked it up.
#8
My grandma told us that smelling each others farts would make us stronger. Worst Christmas ever for us, funniest Christmas for her.
#9
My mother told me that spinach would make me strong like popeye and if i ate it i could lift the house. I would have a few spoonfulls and then she'd rush outside with me and i'd try and lift the house, squeezing my eyes shut with the effort. She'd go "It moved! It moved! Quick, eat some more!" and i'd run back inside and finish it off.
#10
When I was little my Dad told me that toys grew under the weeds in the yard and if I pulled them, eventually a toy would pop out. And I believed it for a long time.
#11
My grandpa told me, when driving on the highway, that the fastest way to count all of the cows in a field is to count all the legs, and then divide by 4. It took me many, many years to figure out that my grandpa was a huge troll.
#12
My mother was a genius: She told us that brown M&M'S were only for adults, so whenever we encountered a brown M&M we would give it to her.
#13
When I was a kid I was really interested in dinosaurs, but also afraid of them. I would have trouble going to sleep because I was worried that one might just appear and eat me, even though I knew about extinction.
My mom convinced me that the asteroid theory had been questioned, and the next likely theory was that there had been an explosion of liquid vanilla that killed them all off. She proceeded to fill a spray bottle with vanilla extract and put it in my room, and taught me to spray it in each of the corners of my room before I went to bed, saying: North, South, East, and West, dinosaurs, take a rest!
I believed that this was the only thing keeping me safe for quite a while.
Paul K. Johnson 7 years ago
I work at an inpatient psych facility. For the longest time we were getting meth users who many came in believing they had snakes in their hair. I think they all used the same batch because I've never heard anyone say that since. Anyway, what worked for a lot of them was when I gave them 'Snake-Killing Shampoo'. The first time I did it I thought they'd tell me I was an idiot but it worked more times than not and people would settle down.
#14
The funniest one I heard was a father who was asked about coconuts in a store by his son. He said:
"Don't go near those son...those are bear eggs..."
#15
"The door is locked because mommy was helping daddy hang a picture behind the door and we didn't want you to open it and hit us." God damn how many times you guys are hanging pictures behind the door at night.
#16
My dad told me if I ate my spinach if get hair on my chest like Popeye. So here I was a small girl wolfing down my spinach hoping I'd get hair on my chest, when I got older and realized I wasn't supposed to get hair on my chest my dad laughed at me.
#17
My dad, a 2-3 pot a day coffee drinker , had me convinced at age 7 that you had to be 16 to buy and drink coffee. My first time at Starbucks when I was 16 I was so nervous because I thought they would card me! Lol
#18
Babies were bought from the hospital. Women had to get really fat to prove that they could afford eating well, and therefore, afford having a baby.
Aunt Messy 7 years ago
Until I was about six, I firmly believed that if you wanted a baby, you just went to a health unit and picked one out. Both of my siblings were adopted, and at that time, that's what you did. I distinctly remember my brother being brought out of a room and handed over to my parents.
#19
When she was small, I told my daughter that when she lied a red spot would appear on the middle of her forehead. I knew for sure it worked when she did indeed lie and then her hand went up to cover her forehead.
#21
My dad always told me, that if I press a certain button on our remote control our tv would explode. As I grew older, I was curious and pressed said button only to see he saved porn channels on this one
#22
One time when we were visiting relatives in the UK, I was playing outside and a bee got near me and I freaked out. Mom off-handedly said, 'It's OK, honey, British bees don't sting' to get me to calm down. Fast-forward ten years, when as a teenager I repeated that fact within earshot of my mom, and she said 'Who told you such a stupid thing?' You did, Mother. You did.
#23
"We have to leave the zoo now. The zookeeper called my cellphone and your crying is upsetting the animals."
#24
"We aren't French so you can't eat French fries from McDonalds."
#25
My father always said the animals on the side of the road were just taking a nap since the road was warm.
#26
My dad used to tell us that if we lay perfectly still in the backyard for long enough then vultures would circle us and then land to try and eat us. My brother and I would lay silently in the backyard for hours while my dad sat inside watching TV and drinking beer. Well played dad....well played.
#27
If I eat my green beans then I will turn into the Green PowerRanger when I am older. THAT NEVER HAPPENED MOM!
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
Duh! It takes a minimum of 15 years until it happens. Stick with it!
#28
My dad said Pulp Fiction was a documentary about oranges so that I wouldn't want to watch it.
Ricky Couture 7 years ago
No, that's "Pulp Fact". "Pulp Fiction" is about a boy who travels to New York in a giant orange after his parents get eaten by elephants.
#29
My dad would never tell us what he really did for a living. He’d always say 'I used to paint the spots on dalmatian dogs, but I got really good and now I paint the spots on ladybirds.’ I believed him for a good couple of years.
#30
Story time: In kindergarten a girl told me what sex was. She told me incorrectly so I had a bunch of questions. I walked up to my mom and said "mom, I know what sex is." she sort of panicked and said "ok" I responded "I just dont understand how you know when you are done?" (I am a girl and didnt understand the concept of ejaculation) so my mom looked me straight in the face and said "You set a kitchen timer."
and. she. never. f*cking. told. me. the. truth.
I found out in high school.
#31
My mom told my brother and I that a penguin lived behind the fridge, and if we left the door open too long we'd steal his cold and he'd get mad and come out and bite us. It worked on my brother. I asked my mom to move the fridge so I could pet the penguin.
#33
I refused to eat eggs when I was younger. The only way my mum could get me to eat them would be to draw green and purple spots on them and tell me they were dinosaur eggs. Apparently I thought dinosaur eggs were delicious.
#34
That if I misbehaved in the car, the car would be sad (I think I was 5 or something). Fast forward a year and I'm tearfully telling the car that I'm sorry he has to go, but I'm sure he'll be a cool plane in his next life.
#35
"I want to carry you but the doctor said your legs would stop growing if you didn't walk."
#36
"If you pee in the pool, you'll get the girls pregnant and have to get a job."
Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
We were told that a chemical had been added to the water that would make our pee go bright green
#37
As a child, I used to have the worst luck. whenever my sister and I would have froot loops, she only got a couple brown ones, and almost my whole bowl was brown froot loops!
the first time I poured my own froot loops, I actually considered that god might be real, and that he might be trying to reward me for something. I didn't get a single brown froot loop!
when I told my mom, she admitted there was no such thing as brown froot loops and that she had been giving me bowls of cheerios because I'm diabetic.
#38
I was made to believe that the city of Amsterdam was actually called Hamster Jam.
#39
I told both of my kids that the ice cream truck was the "music truck." It's purpose was to drive around and cheer up all the sad people.
#40
A trick my mom used to get us out of her hair was "You can catch a bird by putting salt on its tail". I'd spend hours running around the yard with a salt shaker, looking like a damn fool. I tried this trick on my son and he just looked at me like I was nuts
Jay Berkman 7 years ago
When my son was six, he saw a rabbit in my parent' yard and asked how to catch it. I told him that as you put salt on a bird's tail, pepper should work on a rabbit. He grabbed a pepper shaker and ran outside, trying to get close enough to that rabbit to pepper it. He's s 37 now and still hasn't forgiven me.
#41
My mother told me that our house wasn’t haunted because ghosts were too expensive and we couldn’t afford them.
#42
My kids are convinced that they have a long lost brother somewhere that I dropped off because he was too loud in the car. I am sure they will figure it out but for the time being our road trips are very quiet and peaceful.
#43
The rumble strips on the highway are for the blind drivers. Took me seven years to realize. Well played, Dad.
#44
When I was about six, I was obsessed with the song "Believe" by Cher and I would have it on repeat for hours at a time. We would drive nine hours from Washington to Idaho to visit family and as soon as we crossed the state line my mother would immediately change my CD to radio and tell me it was illegal to listen to anything but country music in Idaho – which I hated but she loved. I believed that shit until I was about 13.
#45
I told my kids that if they didn't behave while waiting in the drive-thru line, they'd get a Sad Meal.
#46
When they want something that is beyond reason, I tell them they can have it if they kiss their elbow.
My 9 and 7-year-old daughters are over it but my 5-year-old son still tries like his life depends on it.
#47
A friend allows her little kids to watch 1 hour of TV a day. Where their hour is up, she turns off the TV's power bar without them noticing and tells them "the TV's empty" which they believe because the remote no longer works.
#48
My dad used to tell me that Santa was tired of cookies and milk and that he wanted Doritos and beer. That went on for years.
#49
I was told that the reason why I had so many nose bleeds was because I had too much blood in my body. I found out that this wasn't the case when I was 18 years old and had a nose bleed at a friend's house. My friend's mother asked me if I was OK and I told her I was fine and that I just has too much blood in my body. She couldn't stop howling with laughter.
#50
My mom had me believe that she was 21 for the longest time, so when I was around 10 I asked 'when are you going to turn 22?'
#51
When I was younger I drew a picture of an alien and I gave him a butt. I showed it to my dad and he told me drawing butts was illegal, so I quickly changed it. I remember reading Captain Underpants and being so confused how the author got it past the government.
#52
I'm Chinese. My mom told me that for every grain of rice I waste would indicate the number of "dents" on my face when I grow up.
From then on, even when I dropped a grain of rice on the floor, I would eat it. Never wasted a grain of rice ever again.
Pei-Ying Pan 7 years ago
I was told that my future husband would have dents on his face - I have made the habit to not leave a grain behind and it's hard to change now!
#53
My mom told my sister that they only named hurricanes after girls otherwise they would be himicanes.
#54
My flatmate grew up on a farm and was told by her parents that their TV only worked when it rained. She believed this for far, far too long.
#55
I dated a dude once who didn't find out until he was a teenager that you can actually eat more than one marshmallow a day. His parents told him that if you ate more than one they would expand in your stomach and kill you. I think he ate a lot of marshmallows after that.
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
I would have asked if his stomach expanded but clearly he's not with us any more. ;)
#56
My parents told us that on Christmas morning, if we looked or touched our presents before 7am then magic would make them disappear and we wouldn't get them. I believed this for far too long and even after I knew, I was still nervous to touch them incase they disappeared.
Aubrey Rae 7 years ago
Omg I do this too, only, I told them they couldn't get put of bed until the sun came up or the magic would go away and all the Christmas stuff would disappear. They are 10 & 12 now. It still works.
#57
When I was little, my FAVOURITE restaurant was this one diner. My grandmother was coming into town, so naturally I wanted to take her to the diner. I asked my dad if we could go and he said that old people weren't allowed there. Obviously I found this totally offensive so I decided to boycott the place and never went back!
#58
I was once asked why a tree on my street was painted white. My dad said, "The government does that to show kids how far they can walk down the street without a parent."
Leoninus Fate 7 years ago
I wondered this for so long too, oddly it's for ants, so they won't climb it, my memory is s**t so I don't remember fully just that ants don't like the bright of it or something and it keeps them off......weird huh
#59
When I was a kid, I asked my father what it means if your 2nd toe is longer than your big toe. His answer: "It means that your great grandmother was a woman." I was satisfied with that answer at the time, but realized it was bullshit long before I became a doctor.
Final score:
37points
#60
My mother had me convinced that you had to say "open door" in order for automatic doors to open. I didn't think I realized that they opened automatically until I was like, eight.
#61
Grandpa told me that there's a tube connecting my bellybutton to my butt, and that if I unscrew my bellybutton my butt will fall off.
Benny Lava 7 years ago
And if you screw it tighter as time goes by, you will always have a nice firm butt.
#62
"When you lie, your ears turn red." I covered my ears every time I lied.
#63
If I didn't sit still during a haircut, the barber would cut my ear off. The worst part was that the barber would play along.
#64
My mother told me that my lips would turn purple if I kissed a boy. When I was in highschool I had kissed a boy at a football game and asked my friend for lipgloss to cover up the purple on my lips. She just laughed at me and I felt very embarrassed.
#65
I told to my 3yr old nephew that my sister's name is Potato. It's was 10 years ago, he still calling her that at every familly gathering.
Aubrey Rae 7 years ago
My kids believe my uncle's name is Uncle Buck. 10 & 12 still dont know his name is Rodney.
#66
"If you don't read at least one book a week your brain will stop growing."
#67
"Don't touch that. It'll turn into spiders."
#68
My dad told me that I could not get a sundae because they were only sold on Sundays.
#70
Whenever my mom would fart she would blame it on the ants in the house AND I BELIEVED HER.
#71
"The candy next to the checkout line are not for sale."
#72
My mom's friend got tired of her kids eating her scallops when they went to restaurants, so she told them that scallops are dolphin balls.
#73
My dad told me that the reason old TV shows and movies were in black and white was because there was no colour in the world at the time. He said colour was invented part way through filming The Wizard Of Oz which is why it starts in black and white and then switches to colour.
#74
My ex's mother told her kids that they had to make sure they watched her (the mom) at all times to make she didn't get kidnapped.
Neither of her kids ever got lost or wandered away.
Marty Sunderland 7 years ago
I've told my grandkids to watch and hold my hand so I wouldn't get lost. Seems less scary than kidnapped.
#75
My mum tells my sister the Internet lady turns the Internet off at 6 pm every night.
#76
My mother once told me not to swallow apple seeds because a tree would grow in my stomach. I actually believed her for a while.
#77
My co-worker told her son, who is afraid of clowns, that ice cream trucks were driven by clowns. He heard that music and sprinted to his room. Evil genius of a parent.
#78
The cashier forgot to put your candy in the bag! Time after time...ugh.
#79
Grew up in west Texas in the middle of no where with no street lights so my curfew was when it got dark. If I wasn't home before it was dark to eat dinner and get ready for bed, my mother would shout "You better get in here before the chupacabra gets you." And I would proceed to break world records running and riding my bike home and I would then "play it cool" when she saw me just briskly walking in the house. She even had me believing the sounds of cicadas was the chupacabra.
Final score:
25points
#80
Remember back in the '90s when the Gap had mannequins with no faces? Well, my parents used to tell my sister and I that if we misbehaved in the mall we would end up as one of the Gap kids with no faces.
#81
My mom told my younger siblings that when they tell a lie, they would grow "lie bumps" on their tongue. For years, any time she suspected they were lying, she just had to say "Let me see your tongue." Made it much easier to solve arguments where they both blamed each other.
Michele Caldwell 7 years ago
My grandmother told us our tongue would turn purple if we lied. I remember arguing with her that my tongue couldn't be purple because I wasn't lying! LOL NOT that it was BS just that I wasn't lying LOL
#82
When I was little, my mom told me Saltine crackers were called cookies. I loved ‘cookies’ and legitimately thought they were Saltine crackers for longer than I am willing to admit on the internet. One day I had a real cookie at a friend's house and knew instantly I had been hoodwinked! Luckily, my mom made delicious chocolate chip cookies to make up for the deception.
Susie Saint Charles 7 years ago
I thought crackers were cookies and bananas were candy until the grandparents finally were able to make the (fairly long) trip to visit and set me straight...
#83
Living on the West Coast, my friend would show the East Coast feed of the NYE count down to her kiddos. They were always in bed by nine. Brilliant.
#84
My dad convinced me that our last name literally translated to 'of Caesar' and that we were direct descendant of the rulers of Rome. I felt like a badass until I started taking Latin classes in middle school.
#85
Santa had birds that watched me 365 days a year, and every child starts with 365 presents and every time you're bad his elves throw a present in the fire....
Now I was bad but not 358 presents worth of bad.
#86
"If you don't behave the pilot will turn the plane around!"
#87
My friend's dad when he was little: "Hey buddy, have you been pushing your nipples in every night?"
"W-what?"
"You haven't been pushing them in?"
"Why would I need to?!"
"You know how mommy looks different? She has boobs, right?"
"Yes..."
"And men don't. Because we push our nipples in at night. But you haven't been"
Commence panic that lasts for several months...
#88
"If you just tell the truth, you won't get in trouble."
#89
My Dad told me when I was really little that graveyards were just people farms
#90
I was told that if a centipede counted my teeth I would die. To this day, I close my mouth when I see a centipede. I'm over 40 years old.
Filip Piękny 7 years ago
interestingly enough, i was told the same would happen if an owl counted my teeth.
#91
As a kid my dad convinced me there was a species of mountain goat that had evolved with longer legs on one side so it could balance on steep slopes... I was a dumbass as a kid...
Caroline Espenschied 7 years ago
And there are left-legged ones and right-legged ones : if you want to catch one, you just have to hide under a bush, wait until one comes your way, jump out and shout "BOOOH!" : it will get scared, turn around and fall down. You'll just have to pick it up. :-)
#92
I told him all kid shows go to sleep at 8 just like him, and we have a timer set at 8 to turn the TV off automatically
#93
If you don't learn how to read, your voice disappears. This one worked surprisingly well, because my son came down with strep and it freaked him the f*ck out.
#94
"If you don't wash your hands before you eat, your food will start to taste like poop."
Wayne Wilson 7 years ago
My Mom tried this. My (then 12 year old) brother said the food always tasted like poop. Dad was not pleased.
#95
That Santa uses Christmas trees as spy beacons to make sure children aren't being naughty.
#96
my mother told me i have to drink my milk everyday so i would get nice boobs....i have a D now!!
i tell my daughter she had to eat her broccoli for princess hair, carrots for my little pony eyes. she does not need big boobs i think....they just get in the way...thanks mom!
Final score:
18points
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
That's okay as we don't need to drink milk anyway after being a baby. It's a myth to support the dairy industry.
#97
"If you don't wipe your butt properly, it'll close up and you'll have to spit out your poop."
#98
My mom used to tell me that 7-Eleven wasn't open until 11am.
Missed out on many a' slurpee.
#99
My kids have no concept of what coal is, so telling them Santa would leave it in their stocking was more work than it was worth. Instead I told them if they were naughty, Santa would let the reindeer poop in there.
Hoparduc Snowpanther 7 years ago
here we just get a bundle of sticks that the parents can beat the kids with (not physically, just in a representational way)
#100
As a kid I put a tooth in a plastic bag and slid it under my pillow for the tooth fairy. When my parents forgot to put money under my pillow, my dad said, 'You shouldn't have put the tooth in a bag. The tooth fairy couldn't smell it.
#101
My father told me (and my Catholic cousin) that Easter was the day that Jesus rolled back the rock, and if he saw his shadow we'd have six more weeks of winter. My aunt was beyond pissed when my cousin broke that out at her first communion.
Tiny Dynamine 7 years ago
It's actually based on a pagan ritual and was hijacked by the church. Look up as to why the date of Easter changes so much.
#102
My dad told me oil stains on the street were little kids that got run over because they didn't hold anyone's hand while crossing the street.
#103
"The brown cows weren't working today so we only have white milk."
Naima Ivansdóttir 7 years ago
and then this happens: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/american-chocolate-milk-brown-cows-study-us-dairy-innvoation-adults-a7793016.html
#104
"Your baby toe is the smallest because it was born last."
#105
My aunt told my little cousin that after Halloween he would have to leave his bag of candy on the porch for some "Halloween spirit" to take.
She... or the spirit, would leave a gift in the mourning. So my cousin basically collected the neighbors candy to barter for some gift.
ELLIOT YANT 3 years ago
Omg! My parents did that with the switch witch! LMAO found out last year (I'm almost 12). now my mom sneaks me a few my brother's good candy!
#106
My dad convinced me it was illegal to play with a toy or game if you were not in the recommended age groups. For example, if it said, 'for ages seven and up' and I was six, then it was illegal for me to play with it.
#107
My father told me that pears were apples from outer space.
#108
When I was little my mom told me that boogers were tiny pieces of my brain and I would get more and more dumb each time I picked them.
DancingToMyself 7 years ago
And then you are the dumbest when it's a flue season (then the brain leeks from your nose) :p
#109
My dad would tell me that I had a brother named Steve who misbehaved all the time so one day, the raccoon clan came and took him away. He spent so much time with them that he became a raccoon. I told all my friends and teachers about this until in fourth grade, it hit me.
Final score:
13points
#110
I convinced my son that I had eyes in the back of my head so I could we him and his brother misbehaving in the back seat while I was driving, a week later he wanted to comb my hair while sitting on the back of my chair, he took a really long time so I asked why, he said he was trying to see my eyes in the back of my head, I said I'm keeping them closed so you don't scratch them with the brush! He believed this for a couple of years then figured out I could see him in the rearview mirror!
Final score:
13points
Susan McNeely (Submission author) 7 years ago
Hey Zori, he was 5 years old, now he is 37 and owns his own glass blowing business.
#111
When my ex-girlfriend was a kid, she had misbehaved and her dad told her he was, "only going to buy her one boob when she grew up."
#112
"If you eat after 8pm you turn into a gremlin and the only way to stop the process of changing into one is to eat a vegetable."
#113
Dad convinced us he had a special button to change red lights to green. Literally didn't realize he was bullshitting until I was 12.
#114
"I believed that it was illegal to have the lights on in a moving car."
#115
My friend's parents told him there was a big beautiful fish that lived behind the bathroom mirror, and if he used too much water, it would die.
#116
When we go on a road trip I'm going to tell my kids, "If you go to sleep, we'll take the shortcut."
#117
i forgot one...
you have to eat your dinner with fork and knife . (knife on the right)...so you can join our King (The Netherlands) for dinner one day and dont look stupid
Final score:
12points
#118
When my son feels there was horrible unjustice done to him, and cry, because a catroon was too short, there wasnt something in the store he "needed" or just because the change of summer -winter time, I tell him I will write very angry complain to ministry of cartoons, time or whatever is needed, to let them know we can't accept such awfull conditions they put us threw. Works for several years now .
Final score:
12points
#119
My mom thought it was time for my younger sister (1.5 years old) to stop using her pacifier, but my sister couldn't sleep without it. So my mom made up a story and told her that the pacifier had to go home and spend some time with it's mom too. My sister believed it and told my mom to let the pacifier go back home. From then on, she never used it again but sometimes she will ask how the pacifier is doing. WELL DONE MOM!
Final score:
12points
Rita Maneata 7 years ago
That's actually brilliant and way less traumatic than pets "going to the farm."
#120
I’ve told my daughter that our local pizza place’s ovens broke so we couldn’t order pizza that day.
#121
Chuck E Cheese in only for birthday parties. You have to be invited to one to go there.
Victoria Harmon 7 years ago
Same here. Still to this day have never stepped foot in a Chuck E Cheese
#123
My daughter was afraid of monsters at night, like all kids. So I gave her a potato masher and told her it was a magic stick that keeps monsters away if she sleeps with it by her pillow.
#124
My mom showed the video of me being born in reverse and said that that's what happens to children who misbehave.
#125
Whenever the ice cream man came through my neighborhood and my father did not want to buy me ice cream, he would tell me that it was just the Beer Man and he'd let me know when the ice cream man actually was driving by. I never even realized the Beer Man was NOT a thing until I was much older.
#126
"Sorry sweetie you can't watch any more Elmo videos, it's Elmo's bed time and he's sleeping now."
#127
That if we jumped while on a plane, the plane would keep going and we would go flying backwards and slam into the rear wall.
It worked for years and kept us sitting quietly in planes until my older brother made me try to jump.
#128
My mom hated swimming, so she told me she was allergic to water. At a young age I just believed her, but as I grew older, I asked her how she bathes? To which she convincingly replied "I have special medication for that." Again I believed her. Until one very hot summer's day... she finally decided to swim, to which I freak out of course, thinking she'd die!!!
Final score:
11points
#129
When I was a kid I was super sure that cats are the women of dogs...
Final score:
11points
#130
"If you eat enough vegetables, your body makes them taste like candy."
Paul K. Johnson 7 years ago
I grew up eating a lot of sugar. Much of it was served up by my parents and grandparents. Some veggies ARE very sweet. I've wondered for a long time if I wouldn't think those veggies are sweet treats if I hadn't consumed so much sugar (and still do).
#131
My mom always asked my brother's kindergarten teacher what he had done during the day. Then, back at home, she would speak with him about these things, telling him that she had a special channel on her TV where she can watch him all day long.
#132
My mom told me that when an earthquake happened, it was because our planet was fighting with another planet. I believed that crap until second grade.
#133
My friend ripped open a handwarmer, and when the powder got on his hands his parents told him his hands would disintegrate by age 30. We looked up what disintegrate meant later that night, and he bawled hysterically while staring at his hands.
#134
My mom told my sister and I that Chucky, the evil murderous doll from the Child's Play series, lived in our A/C vents to get us to stop sticking cheerios in them.
I was terrified to go near vents well into adulthood.
#135
"You can only wear your Batman costume outside on Halloween and maybe on your birthday. It says so on the tag."
#136
My parents said if you play with your belly-button you'll pop like a balloon and fly around the room.
Final score:
10points
#137
We would go blackberry picking behind our house in the summer. In order for us not to pick the green, unripe berries, my mom would tell us to only pick the dark ones because the green ones meant that a dog had peed on it.
We never touched the green ones.
Final score:
10points
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
Surprisingly, snakes also like blackberries, so always watch out for them, when picking them!
#138
My dad used to tell us amazing adventurous stories of when in 1944 he was in Klondike, fighting bears, eating wolves, living in a cave during the winter... Until we realised he was born in 1955 (oh, we live in Italy)... Amazing memories
Final score:
10points
#139
I told my son, when I turned 34, that I went to the courthouse and had my age stopped . He gave me handmade birthday cards, wishing me a happy 34th birthday for many years. He is now older than me.
Final score:
10points
#140
"Oh no this isn't Cola it's black water you wouldn't like it."
#141
A fart is two turds whispering to each other.
#142
I'll always remember when I had a pile of grated carrots on my plate. I didn't like carrots. I was told it was a big pile of cheese, and naive me decided to eat it. I was trolled by my own parents :(
#143
I routinely tell this to children when they ask why the sky is blue:
"The sky is blue because we live inside the eye of a blue eyed giant named Macumba."
#144
My parents hired an actor to pretend to be a drugged out version of myself from the future to scare me away from drugs.
#145
My mother told me that every time I lied, a piece of my tongue would fall off. She would convince me by putting a piece of meat on her finger (without me seeing), reach in my mouth and pull it out and show me. I'd cry for hours.
#146
"Candy canes are the bones of rejected elves."
#147
I told my Godchildren that my brother (who they called Uncle Fartypants) has such bad wind that he's not allowed on planes - because farting affects the air pressure and makes them crash
Final score:
9points
#148
Once (ok, more than once) I forgot to play "Tooth Fairy". My daughter was so upset, and I had to come up with something quickly. I told her she was a little on the older side of loosing her teeth. The Tooth Fairy always started with the younger ones, and she must have run out of time last night.
Final score:
9points
Michele Caldwell 7 years ago
I forgot a time or two as well. I told him that she had too many children to reach them all in one night and that the longer it takes for her to get to him, the more money he gets. He used to be bummed when 'she would arrive on the first night' certain he could have gotten more LOL
#149
My dad used to say he could make the traffic lights turn green. He'd count down 3-2-1-GREEN and the light would change. It wasn't until I was older that I realized he was timing it off the light turning red for the crossroad.
Final score:
9points
#150
"Lucky Charms are for Leprechauns. If you eat too many you'll shrink and have to wear a green suit and have a red beard."
#151
I was told that if I swallowed my gum, my poop would bounce up and down in the toilet. I cried every time I accidentally swallowed some.
#152
I didn't like eating rabbit and my mother decided that I was being difficult and was having none of that. So she told me that what I had on my plate was a chicken leg. I told her it tasted really funny and she replied "That's because I cooked it without the skin". I bought it and finished it all.
#153
My mom told me that if I get angry I will get old. Then she pointed at an old lady and said 'look at her, last week she was just the same age as you and now she’s 70 years old', so I held my anger in FOR YEARS.
#154
I told a kid that the human body only has so many words until it runs out and then you die. That's why old people slur their words more, because they are running out. It's a lot of words, millions, but don't waste them when you're a child. They didn't talk for the rest of the day.
#155
I told a kid that a car was essentially four unicycles lashed together, and there were really small people peddling at super high speed.
#156
To keep my sister and I busy my mom would tell us if we could kiss our elbow we would turn into the opposite sex.
#157
If i didn't stop biting my nails they would get infected and i would have to get tiny needles in my fingers. I hated needles. Still do.
Darth Vader 7 years ago
I was not introduced to clear nail varnish because I thought they only came in bright colours. My mother used clear nail varnish once and told me that her nails became so shiny because she scrubbed her hands and nails clean everytime she washed them. So I spent hours in the bathroom scrubbing and washing my hands.
#158
"You have to wear your pants because if you don't we will have to move to a different city where naked people live..."
#159
My mom told me that redbull was alcohol because she did not want me to drink it.
Final score:
7points
#160
My Dad told me that if I take a spoonful of vinegar while closing my eyes, I can see heaven. I really believed him, so I tried it.
Final score:
7points
#161
I told my son that if he drank caffeine or alcohol his ears would fall off. Because he was an extremely intelligent child, I had to explain to him that children have a chemical reaction to these elements, which is why it is illegal for children to even purchase alcohol. When he was about four, his daddy gave him a Dr. Pepper and when my son found out it had caffeine he freaked out. His daddy didn't help matters by telling him his ears looked a little low. "Momma put my ears back!!"
Final score:
7points
Susan Gardner 7 years ago
I don't know about ears falling off, but okay... whatever it takes lol
#162
When i know my son is lying I am telling him that his eyes changed color and only parents can see that. Now I know when he is lying cause he is hiding his eyes.
Final score:
7points
#163
"Happy Meals are for poor kids who's parents can't buy them toys and they're sad."
#164
My parents got me to eat calamarie by telling me they were "Italian onion rings."
#165
My dad always told me he was terrified of mice and rats so we couldn't go to Chuck E Cheese.
#166
"We can't have the dome light on in the car at night because it blinds the other drivers."
#167
My mom told me girls peed out of their butts to avoid telling me about vaginas. I went to school and told the other kids before being corrected.
#168
"That's not juice, it's camels blood" my sisters attempt at averting her kids attention from the expensive pomegranate juice.
#169
My parents told me that haggis were small creatures that lived on Scottish hillsides. They had tartan pelts, and the legs on one side of their body were longer than on the other so they could comfortably run around the hill. Bagpipes were made from haggis pelts, and the haggis you eat was made from minced haggis meat.
#170
Beanbags actually have badly behaved children inside them, ground up into little pieces.
Works a charm.
#171
If we were naughty she could put us in the rubbish bin and we would be taken away with all the rubbish. Worked while we were kids but became a joke as we got older.
#172
You know the myth that carrots make you see in the dark. My mother took it to another level and said you would go blind if you didn't eat carrots
Final score:
6points
#173
My mother use to make eggs for the whole family at once and season them with salt and pepper. But my sister wouldn't eat anything with pepper in out. One time get egg was sprinkled by accident with pepper o.k. the edge. Because she really didn't want to waste it my mother assured her that this was special pepper for kids. My sister was convinced and ate her egg. Years later as a teen my sister still believed there were two kinds of pepper. One for kids and one for grownups.
Final score:
6points
#174
I had headache once and it was suggested I go for a walk. As I was leaving my mothers friend said "you can't wear a hat, the headache won't escape" so I took off the hat. To this day I don't wear a hat if I have headache even though I know
Final score:
6points
Markus McCloud 7 years ago
Well, if you have an adjustable hat (like a baseball cap), having it too tight could exacerbate the headache, so your mother's friend wasn't entirely wrong.
#175
We lived in rural VA and my dad had me, my sister, cousins and all the neighborhood kids convinced if we stayed out after dark a "hairy monster with glowing green eyes" would eat us. One night doing dishes with my sister, a green eyed monster appeared in the kitchen window. We dropped and shattered the dishes, ran screaming for my father and cried for hours. Wouldn't believe him when he said it was just a mask
Final score:
6points
#176
Oh SO many! I used to tell my daughter that when she took baths as a toddler, she would fart then try to catch the bubbles with her teeth....also told the kids that the car wouldn't move if their seat belts weren't fastened and whenever they had a friend in the car they would always tell their friends the same thing.
Final score:
6points
#177
My D.A.R.E. teacher in middle school told us if we ever smoked pot we would never be able to receive an organ transplant.
Final score:
6points
#178
When my daughters were little I told them if you burped, farted, and sneezed at the same time, you would turn them inside out.
#179
My wife's parents used to tell her that dandelions were illegal and they would get fined if she didn't remove all of them from the yard.
Darth Vader 7 years ago
I always got told that they were bad luck. Good thing Im not superstitious
#180
My parents told me that if I pushed the "reset" button on the power outlet the house would explode.
#182
My mom told me that if I ate raw cookie dough I'd get worms.
Caitlyn Marquez 5 years ago
Not worms as in the insect, but you can get worms from the raw egg, this is not a lie.
#184
my parents told me i was allergic to sugar and would die if i ate it. they even went and brought "alternative snacks" to my school teachers like carrot sticks and peanuts for them to stock up for me and hand out when the other kids got birthday cupcakes. not the worst thing they could have done to me, but it sucked. i totally believed them until i went to visit my aunt and realized that ice cream and m&m's were F*CKING AMAZING.
#185
My parents convinced me that if I didn't eat my broccoli then I would go bald. They used my Grandfather as an example as he was bald. Turned out he was undergoing cancer treatment. It worked though! I do love Broccoli!
#186
My dad told me that there's a dead lady that crawls through little childrens' windows and kills them if they're not asleep by a certain time. My dad liked to scare the shit out of me...
Michele Caldwell 7 years ago
I would have been terrified to fall asleep! What if she only 'thought' I was awake and killed me in my sleep! EEK :)
#187
"Grandpa called and he said if you don't go to bed, he is never giving you candy again. "
#188
When I was little, I was afraid of monsters coming into the house so my dad told me that he set up and invisible force field around the house so that when monsters got near the house, they would turn to dust.
Later, I asked him what happened when santa came to the house and he told me that he turned off the force field and the reindeers bit any monsters that got near.
Final score:
5points
#189
When I was little I thought littLe people lived in the traffic lights and would control them. I asked my friends if the 'people' could see me.. they said yes.
Final score:
5points
Victoria Harmon 7 years ago
My dad tried to do this with me. I knew there really weren't little people in them but to amuse him I played along and never told him they weren't in there. I knew he liked it when I believed him when he said something crazy like that.
#190
My grandma would point at the armored money trucks outside stores and would tell me that those are the truck that take misbehaved children away. Shit freaked me out.
#191
My mom would threaten to trade me at the children store for a kid that looked exactly like me but behaved good.
So many years later and I only now realize how wrong that sounds... children store
#192
"Don't grind your teeth or they'll fall out and you won't be able to eat again."
#193
When my brother and I would visit our Grandmother, and she didn't want us messing around with stuff in the back yard she would tell us that the Wompus Cat was gonna eat us. I think Im still scared of the dark bc of it lol.
Final score:
4points
Melissa Boone 7 years ago
My grandmother said there was a wildcat in her room and to never open the door.
#194
I was not introduced to clear nail varnish because I thought they only came in bright colours. My mother used clear nail varnish once and told me that her nails became so shiny because she scrubbed her hands and nails clean everytime she washed them. So I spent hours in the bathroom scrubbing and washing my hands.
Final score:
4points
#195
My dad had me convinced that he had an instruction manual that the hospital gave him when I was born. When I wanted to do something he didn't want to do he said, "That is not in your manual."
Final score:
4points
#196
When I was about 3 Santa came to my grandparents' house. I didn't believe it was him until my parents told me to look outside, because he was taking off in his sleigh and Rudolph was leading the way. I looked outside and saw his red nose and believed it was Rudolph. I only found out years later that it was my aunt running down the street with a pair of red underwear stretched over a flashlight.
Final score:
4points
#197
"Everytime you lie, baby jesus gets diarrhea."
#198
For the longest time, I had my daughter convinced that McDonald's hash browns were made from peacocks.
#199
The toys "are going to the repair workshop"...
The toys weren't broken and they were going to poor children >:(
Rita Maneata 7 years ago
I feel like I'd rather have the donation bit explained. That would encourage kids to share.
#202
When I was younger, if I woke her up and needed medicine, she told me that to go right to sleep because with "night medicine", you have to be asleep in 15 minutes or else the medicine would not work... I believed her well into my childhood.
Final score:
3points
#203
My mom told us, that the yeast in her freshly baken bread continues to grow in the warm stomach and it could burst. So we never asked to eat the bread when it was still warm. We waited until our mother told us, that it was „safe to eat“.
Final score:
3points
#204
I was always told by my parents that if I ate the crusts on my sandwiches my hair would go curly. I'm 36 and I still eat all my crusts…but my hair is as poker straight as ever. 😆 Thanks Mum & Dad!
Final score:
3points
#205
I complained to my dad that my food has ants. He said that it will make my singing voice better and beautiful. I swallowed the ants anyway. :)
Final score:
3points
#206
My dad told us we had to hold our breath when passing a cemetery or ghosts would haunt us. There were some huge cemeteries and I would almost pass out trying to hold my breath!
Final score:
3points
#207
If I forgot to be tooth fairy. I told my kids they must of pulled their tooth too late in the day. And tooth fairy picked up teeth in the order they became available. So they must be on the next nights schedule.
Final score:
3points
#208
My friend decided to become vegetarian at 6. Her father told her that drumsticks came from trees, so she could eat them. For years, all she ate were drumsticks.
Final score:
3points
#209
I told my kid that there was a "Mommy Book" and one of the rules in it was that I had to tell them "no" thirteen times a day. Then I would say "Ask for something! I think I'm behind!"
Final score:
3points
#210
My mum was a single parent and when I was very young I asked her who my Dad was. She told me I was a gift from God. For a period of my childhood I thought I was the second coming.
Final score:
3points
#211
My grandma told my mom that the right boob was for white milk and the left was for chocolate milk. She believed that until she took Sex Ed in high school.
#212
My dad told me that pushing the seat recline button on an airplane helps the plane take off, and that if not enough people push it the plane would crash.
#213
I was told swallowing watermelon seeds would grow in my stomach.
I had a very nerve wracking couple of months waiting.
#215
If you don't finish your dinner, Buzz Lightyear will die.
#216
"The toy shop is not working today. Today is "the day of the week". They don't open at this day of the week."
Final score:
2points
#217
My Dad used to say the hazard lights button was to eject the passenger seat so I never pushed it once he pushed I freaked out thinking I was going to eject out of the car
Final score:
2points
#218
My mom said that the little brown freckles/little birthmarks came from drinking too much Cola, so i never drank it. I believed it till I was 12 years or something.
Final score:
2points
Bradley Auerbach 7 years ago
Birthmarks are called BIRTHmarks for a reason: you are BORN with them!
#219
My Dad has a bald patch and hated broccoli, so my Mum told me if i didn't eat the broccoli I would have bald patch when I was older. Still think broccoli affects hair growth 10 years later.
Final score:
2points
#220
My mum told me that mountain goats can only go one way round a mountain because their legs are shorted on one side. I was 13 when I blithely repeated this "fact" and she started laughing uncontrollably and confessed it was a lie her father had told her as a child.
Final score:
2points
#221
I've told my son that the shower automatically stops when he is clean enough. He doesn't know about the 3 second delay after pressing the button and has never seen me press the button either
Final score:
2points
#222
I told once my three year old boy that women didn't fart. Whenever he felt one was out, he always blamed daddy or another men. It lasted until he was nine!
Final score:
2points
#223
My mom told me the reason she doesn't have earlobes is because she's from Mars. I was sceptical, but my brother believed her completely.
Final score:
2points
#224
"If you wander off, the boogie man will kill you and make sausage out of you."
My grandmother, to me. Couldn't eat sausage until I was 13 and realized that there was no way that was true.
#226
We convince my son that mommies didn't have bellybuttons when they had babies because kept trying to look at mine and his grandmother's. But his Aunt didn't have kids so she was fair game!!! Best time my mom and I ever had that summer was watching her run from him so he wouldn't yank her shirt up in public!!!
Final score:
1point
#227
My dad told me that if I'd sleep on my belly my boobs wouldn't grow... I tried to sleep on my back and was checking my chest when I would wake up on my belly.
Final score:
1point
#228
Asked my mom when I was a kid, "How do actors /actresses cry in movies so easily?"she told me that "when in the back they watch sad movies that make them cry". I believed that for awhile.
Final score:
1point
#229
I would only eat "Japanese" mushrooms! My family was eating soup out one day and I refused to eat it because there were mushrooms in it- until I was convinced they were Japanese mushrooms! Game changer
Final score:
1point
#230
My dad would drive us by the lumber yard in the evening just as it was getting dark. There were storage units with chain link fences on them. He would tell us gorillas lived in there. Oh God, it would make us cry, like snot-faced boo hooing. I'm an adult and it still freaked me out until a few years ago.
Final score:
1point
#231
When I was little I used to play in the street with my friends until it was very dark . To make me come home earlier my mom told me that a witch will catch me if I stay in the street when it's dark . That shit worked for years because we used to play in front of a house where an old lady lived . She was almost always dressed in black so I used to think she was a witch and run home everytime I see her
Final score:
1point
#232
I was told that if I swallowed chewing gum, everytime I inhale the gum would inflate into a balloon, and when I exhale it would deflate. Then if it popped I would die. For years if I accidently swallowed gum, I would breathe extra carefully hoping I don't die.
Final score:
1point
#233
When I was around 8-9 I didn’t want to spend time in the garden. That is why Mom came up with the argument that Madonna had such figure and strong arms only because she was hoeing potatoes. And that’s how I ended up with the hoe in my hand, refusing to take a rest.
Final score:
1point
#234
I own a liquid nitrogen tank and had my nephews convinced for years that I made clouds. Pouring the liquid out on the ground produces copious amounts of vapor. They were always duly impressed.
Final score:
1point
#235
My dad is a die-hard Aggie fan. He taught me when I was 3 that the color orange was actually yellow and yellow was orange. When I was in kindergarten learning colors I kept calling orange and yellow each other's color. My teacher got so concerned she called my mom and my mom had to explain what my dad did. Everyone thought it was hilarious except me.
Final score:
1point
#236
When the twins were very young we would go to the beach.
As a flight of pelicans flew by, I'd tell them "I'm getting out my invisible shotgun!" and hold my arms up as if I had a gun. Having observed pelicans for years, I could tell when they were going to dive for fish. I'd make a huge "BANG!" as they all fell from the sky into the water. They were amazed and saddened by my feat...I'd tell them "they're OK"....and repeat the process for the next flight of pelicans.
Final score:
1point
#237
Our youngest daughter was born on ANZAC Day (a public holiday in Australia) and I told her that everyone had a holiday because it was her Birthday - she believed it for at least 2 years.
Final score:
1point
#238
I had just learned to make coherent sentences, but I was also extremely gullible. My dad lost his voice and was sick at home with laryngitis, he ushered me over and convinced me that he had lost his voice in the basement, and promptly asked me to find it. I searched for his voice for 20 minutes before coming upstairs and asking: " Papa, are you tricking me?" He told me he was sure, and I rushed back to uncover his missing voice.
Final score:
1point
#239
Whenever my mother knew we were lying, she'd say a "mommy dot" would appear somewhere on our face. So whenever one of us would lie, we'd try to cover every inch of our face.
Final score:
1point
#240
Whenever trains would stop in a seemingly random place with no station, my Dad would tell me they were just changing the tyres.
Believed that for an embarrassingly long time.
Final score:
1point
#241
Not my kid, just a friend...but she was complaining about having freckles one day ( I have my own and am happy with them ) so I told her that it was because she ate too much vegemite. That our skin has parts that are thinner than other parts, and that if you eat too much dark food, it shows through. She took all of this as fact, and her Mum was in the same room but behind her the whole time shaking her head as I did this, with a smirk but realising her teenage daughter was way too gullible.
Final score:
1point
#242
My mother told me to not swallow watermelon seeds or one will start growing and I'll have a watermelon in my tummy. I never swallowed those seeds again because I thought I'd be pregnant. I was 8.
Final score:
1point
#243
My grandmother used to tell me that drinking milk while eating fish was poisonous. I've eaten tuna fish sandwiches with a glass of milk for years and it's never hurt me.
Final score:
1point
#244
The tooth fairy used the teeth to make dentures for old people
Final score:
1point
#245
When I was younger my favorite sweets were fruit pastels so my mum told me that red and black ones were poisonous to kids and I believed her until I was 8/9
Final score:
0points
#246
I was told when I was a kid the trick to getting rid of worms:
Lay on your belly with your mouth open, and a piece of devon (baloney?) in front. The worm would smell it and wriggle out of your mouth. believed it into my teens...
Final score:
0points
Connie Martin 7 years ago
This is a way to get rid of a tapeworm, if you can stand to do it. Also a dish of milk is good bait, I hear. *Shudder
#247
In order to keep her kids from wandering too far, my cousin used to tell her kids that the Cucuy (Mexican boogie man) would get them. Worked every time.
Final score:
0points
#248
deadlocks are cow poo on strings
Final score:
0points
#249
My dad and his brothers would always tell us to stay away from the front corner of my grandm's house. Saying, "the wrag-man gon' get you!" I'm 34 and still anxious about that part of my grandma's house...
Final score:
0points
#250
When my husband and I moved in together, he couldn't believe that I wasn't wiping off the toothpaste that had splattered on my shirt. He said "it will bleach your shirt! You joke, but my dad told me that's how his beard went great! When my husband and I moved in together, he couldn't believe that I wasn't wiping off the toothpaste and it splattered on my shirt. He said "it will bleach your shirt! You joke, but my dad told me that's how his beard went gray!" He was 32.
Final score:
0points
#251
My dad told us he did not know how to get to our grandma's house and that he had to watch for the blinking arrows on the car's dashboard. We would watch for awhile then lose interest. He would then secretly hit the turn signal. We would tell and he would say "I see it, I see it ".
Final score:
0points
#252
When he was younger, my mum managed to convince my brother that ticket machines had tiny little men inside them and that he had to thank them every time a ticket popped out. He always did for years. Now he tells his children the same thing
Final score:
0points
#253
My mother told me and my two older siblings that she could tell if we were fibbing by looking at our tongues. She could always spot the fibber, who would steadfastly refuse to stick out their tongue.
Final score:
0points
#254
When my brother was born, my dad told me and my sister that babies were born with antennas on their heads. I got really excited when they brought him home from the hospital because I wanted to see them for myself; I was super disappointed when he told me that the antennas fall off when they put the hat on the baby (it didn't help that my mom went along with it) .
I believed him for a couple years until I realized that he made it up (2 more siblings later). We still laugh about that one.
Final score:
0points
#255
My parents liked to entertain their friends in the summer by throwing barbeque's and enjoyed drinking Grasshoppers. That's an alcoholic drink that includes ice cream, Crème de Menthe, and Crème de Cocao (tastes like frozen chocolate mint) and is green in color. To keep the kids out of their hair, the parents told us kids we had to keep catching and bringing them grasshoppers for their drinks. Worked like a charm!
Final score:
0points
#256
My dad told me his middle name was Handsome... I believed that for years until by chance saw his drivers license.
Final score:
0points
#257
When I was three we had tiny candy canes on the Christmas tree. They were just my size and I wouldn't leave them alone. That year we had a 'live' tree (whatever that meant to little me) so my mom told me the Christmas tree would get mad if I kept stealing his candy canes and might try and eat me. When I didn't finish my dinner, she would set the plate of unfinished food under the tree to feed it (we watered it so that made sense). I gave it a wide berth after that.
Final score:
0points
#258
My dad tricked my little sister and I into believing that if the hazard button in the car was pressed it would shoot missiles out into the car in front of us. This went on until I was 14.
Final score:
0points
#259
When I was younger and I would refuse to eat something, my mom would look inside the kitchen cabinet and said that the list inside said that the previous time I liked the food. Then I just ate my meal, and I liked it.
When I was 18 or something, I heard there has never been a list. It was just a list with phone numbers.
Final score:
0points
#260
My father and uncles told us coffee would put hair on your chest and stunt your growth. Since most of the men in my family are furry and everybody's short, I believed it.
Final score:
0points
#261
When I was five, I heard someone mention "Elvis sightings." I asked my father what Elvis was. "Elvis is an alien from outer space," he said.
I was in my 20s before I discovered this was joke.
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#262
# 65 was once true. # 249. Toothpaste will bleach your shirt. Some brands.
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#263
My son was 8 before he knew that football games on school nights had a second half. I always sent him to bed at halftime.
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#264
The paper boy would pick up the papers, cross the road, stand under a shady tree and roll up the newspapers with a thick red rubber band. He always dropped a few. I told my daughter that it was red rubber band tree and those were ripe ones that fell off. She believed it for a long long time.
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#265
My parents told me drop bears would come out at night and attack you if you went near trees. For years I was terrified of going outside at night.
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#266
When I was between five and eight my dad always woke me up in the morning and I detested waking up for school. He would always say that a bear was knocking on our door and that it was asking for me. When I looked at the door panes gingerly there was none but I was told that it had just left after waiting for me.
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#267
To get my daughter to sleep in her toddler bed, I told her that grown up beds were only for people who were done growing. If she wants to get big and strong like mommy and daddy, she has to sleep in her toddler bed because it has magical powers that make her bigger when she sleeps...
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#268
When my brother and I were around 2 or 3 years old, my mom's youngest brother (still in school and living at home) told us that raisins were dead flies with the wings and legs pulled off so that my grandparents would buy a cereal other than Raisin Bran (at the time our favorite snack).
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#269
When my kids would see a commercial for a fast food place they would immediately want to go, so I would pretend to call the place, and then tell my kids the place was closed. My son said one time "They are never open!"
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#270
When we went to the store my mom used to tell, "Every time I touch something a kitten dies"
#272
My parents just told me the glare was making it hard to drive.
#273
One time years ago when our son was about four or five he had a little toy screwdriver and was going around telling people he was going to "screw them"
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#274
I asked my dad why he won't eat vegetables, he said that old people's stomach will furtilized them and it eventually grows bigger like a tree on top of his head. It freaks me out...
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#275
Babies are the gifts from Allah for the wedding. But if Allah sends the gift before wedding, it's a curse. Ammu (mother) still says this to my nephew. LOL
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#276
once we were in the park and we
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#277
This is very tips on lying to kids specially for parents for many reasons when kids are very young. Sometimes parents need to lie to their kids in a lot of occasions which is too many to mention. I would like to suggest those parents too for lying to kids in necessary times. Thank you so much for sharing such post that has really awakened me and I am a sincerely blogger who shares tips on Blogging can be read here http://www.easybloggingtip.com/
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#278
When I was in kindergarten, our little bathroom in the classroom had a noisy exhaust fan. One night, I had a dream that I was in that bathroom, and the fan was strong enough to suck my long hair into it. For at least 5-7 years after that, I was terrified of going into any public restroom that had an exhaust fan in it. Not a lie, per se...but that really f*cked me up for a long time. To this day (I'm now 47), I still don't like loud fans but they obviously don't hinder me in using restrooms!
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#279
When my elder sister was 3 she was told the tree is moving because she didn't ate food. When I was 3 years I was told the same and I said "Moma, it is moving because of wind"
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#280
When a mean boy pulled my hair in kindergarden my Mom said it's because he liked me. Since then I consider meanness the sign of fondness. :(
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Hoparduc Snowpanther 7 years ago
mine told me this too. except they are still abusing me to this day and thanks to my low self esteem I don't even believe when she tells me that they like me.
#281
My mother told me she knew absoli everything. I believed her until i was about 12. I started to learn things at school that she had not heard of and i finally knew she was human like me.
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#282
When i receieved my first car and let me tell you i was 19, mum was being cheeky or maybe just tricking me for my saftey sake.. She told me not to drive over 80 for the first few months because if not the engine will be broken and may explode, so i believed her till i had to send my car for its first service and i asked the person working at the workshop if its true what my mum said & he just laughed at me, that's how paranoid i was to BELIEVED IT! 😂 Im 25 nw & im driving over the speed limit😝
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Haunting Spirit 7 years ago
Well, for new cars they do advise to not drive too fast and accelerate too fast during the first 3.500 km.
#283
When I was a child my parents bought me red boots that I really liked and wanted. When I was going to bed my grandmother told me that the cats that were living in the roof of the house knew about my boots and they have told the gypsies. She said the gypsies will steal my boots once I fall asleep. That night I slept with my boots...hugging them.
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