Also interchangeable with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Halloween Ghosts.

Let me guess - noisy toy?

Not only their teeth will benefit from that good habbit ;)

also you dont want to poop in the middle of a routine

So we sleep with our eyes open now?

I told my daughter she had to eat as much vegetables and fruit as she ate junk to counteract the junk food. She'd fill up on fruit and vegetables and be too full for any junk food. I think that's why she's a vegetarian now too

I'm writing this down

well at least thats a cute story

Genius

My girls were about eight before they could cross a street without holding the hand of an adult. They never asked about rules or anything, that's just how things ARE.

19?!!

That is a clever one

Ah, dad tax. Nothing better.

To the adults it's funny, to the kids it's called being an a$$

We call it "candy tax". And to all the whiners harping about not lying to your kids, the kids know what we're doing, they're not stupid 🙄

Only a chunk or two? Wow your tax system is better than in my country

Similar to the Mom processing fees imposed on Halloween candy, mom's have to drag you to every trunk or treat, house, and party you asked to go to , to get said candy, but unlike the dad tax the mom tax is EVERY MILKY WAY AND 3 MUSKETEERS not some ALL of them

My brother does that with my nephew. If he wants to buy something with his allowance, my brother adjusts the cost of it based on health factors or whatnot (example: my brother will cover some of the cost of carrot sticks but would charge a tax on candy)

HA my dad should've done this

lol

My mom had a very hefty tax when we were kids... half a chocolate from each of us, so she ultimately had a full bar, and my sis and I had only half... took us a while to gather the math to figure out we were being conned

My parents told me this one. 🥲

That's actually cruel :P

Not too similar but made me think of it as I was the top bunk ( and the older) sister! Our mum used to tell me that it's really bad luck to go to bed with the wardrobes or the drawers in your bedroom left open. Like, you'd get nightmares or just bad luck the next day. So this seemed perfectly rationally to me well into my adult years (I guess as much as any other superstition would) A couple of years ago I asked her where that superstition came from and she said, "oh, it was just to make you tidy up and put everything away before you went to bed." And it bloody worked. I'm in my 30's now and still do it out of habit! Sneaky mum.

Granny Weatherwax had this issue, legitimate problem for some people.

Heaven forbid we just tell kids they are not allowed to watch tv whenever they want.

That's precious

Nah mate, that’s the button that makes the car explode ;)

Lava cake 🤤

Not sure if this is good....

they were some kids that broke the law and went in so they had to put signs to make sure every one knows

in elder days before Netflix and tablets, primitive men, would posses hard copies of movies and music. this primitiv people would sometimes go places were there was no signal and nobody knew what parents and their children did for hours...it was a short and brutish life

Ehm. There actually are cakes which are sensitive to vibrations, no? Loud noises and especially stomping can make them deflate, or am I mistaken?

Evilly perfect

I don't even see the point of this lie.. he could have just as easily pointed to the engine temperature gauge and said when the car is "in the warm area"...

Eyes in the black of my head trick worked for a while. She would be amazed especially in the car. She did not know i could see her in the rearview mirror. Even when she was still backwards in her car seat.

How to generate trust issues. Lesson #1.