what lies do you tell your children?

the true identity of the father...

no jk

i am guilty of the santa, tooth fairy, easter bunny lie. she just believed it and i didnt deny it! shame on me!

My daughters first lie: My husband told my daughter that if she knocked on the garage door 3 times it would open (She was like 20 months). She would knock and he would press the garage door opener that he had in his hands. Doesn't seem like much but it broke my heart when we were next to some other garages that were next to the play ground and her little hand is pounding the air, and her little voice saying "knock, knock, knock" and she was giving me the saddest face ever when nothing happened.

Hey, my Mom had me believing I could lay an egg until I was 5 or 6. I always wondered why, when we visited my grandmother's farm, I lay brown eggs, instead of white. :ohwell:

Just Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. Outside of that, I tell them the truth. I also never promise them anything and not follow up. If it's something I might not be able to do, I don't promise. If kids can't trust their own parents, who can they trust?

Every year on my birthday, I told both my children that I was 29. My son (the older one) never questioned it. Finally, last year when my son was 14 and my daughter was 8, she took it upon herself to do some quick calculations. She proclaimed, "Mommy, you had Evan when you were 15 years old?!?!?!?" OMG, I could imagine that little tidbit being spread through her school like wildfire. "Pssst, did you hear that Alex's mother got pregnant at 15?" :ohwell: I told the kids the truth on the spot.

When I took my then 4 year old son to Disney World, he was soooooooo into Buzz Lightyear. We rode the Buzz Lightyear ride probably 20 times. It's a little slow ride and you have a laser gun on your car to shoot at targets. You are given a score readout on the ride. Of course, as you exit the ride, there is an area where they sell Toy Story paraphenalia. So while my son was oogling various stuff, I bought an "official" Buzz Lightyear High Score Identification card and had a little conversation with the store clerk. A few moments later, he "found" my son in the store, asked him if his name was "Evan LastName," and presented him with the High Score ID card, as instructed by Buzz Lightyear himself! You should have seen Evan's face!

Told my son early on that there was no Santa. We had a pact that the fact we knew this was just a secret between he and I, that the other kids didn't need to know about it.

I tell my three yr old that veggies are gonna make her super strong nd as she eats em I go omg look at ur muscle its getting bigger!!! She also thinks pork and turkey are chicken. Horrible I know but shes a picky eater. Also not a lie but too get her too eat her peas nd green beans we call em frog eyes nd legs. Shes knows they r not legs and eyes, she gets a kick outta it tho.

About four years ago, my son came down with the flu the day after we'd eaten at our favorite pizza place. Of course, he was convinced the pizza made him sick. So now we tell him we order pizza from "that new place downtown". Lucky for us they have plain pizza boxes. He still hasn't figured out it's the same pizza we've been eating for like the last ten years! We even changed the name of the pizza place in our cell phones :laugh:

My mom told us she was 29 (like all women). . . when she obviously wasn't, and I defended her to all the neighborhood kids. I also was told I was 51% Irish, and only 49 percent German. Otherwise, just the normal stuff. Oh, except my grandma . . .she had a big pair of Santa Pants. When we would return to her house after church she would go in the house first, and come out holding the pants . . .she would tell us she saw Santa and tried to grab him, but he got away and she was still holding his pants. We were mortified!

I am so running out to get a pair of Santa pants this season!!!!

I do the holidays and we pull a gag a day on my kids but not outright lies - nah.

The greatest lie my parents ever told me, if you play with it to much it will brake...HA showed them my spiderman collection is still in awesome condention. what you think I was talking about something else! get your mind out of the gutters! :drinker: