I really enjoy listening to Simon Mayo on Radio 2 and love the confessions (just after 5.30 Monday to Thursday)
Recently they have had some where parents (usually dads) have told their kids some great fibs - including one guy (a Spurs supporter) who told his 4 year daughter that Santa would not come if she supported Chelsea - she then told him the following day that she wanted to support Spurs.
I remember telling my eldest that the burglar alarm sensor in the corner of the room was directly linked to Father Xmas and if he was naughty then it would flash red and Santa would know. Every time he was naughty he would look up and see it was red - worked a treat!!
So my question is - what fibs have you told your kids or were you told as a kid?
Oh man this is a good one.
Told my daughter, who really wanted curly hair like her mum, that eating the crusts on her sandwiches would make her hair go curly.
This could turn into a cracking thread!
We use the old tried and tested ones with DS, like if you don't put pants on the birds will have your willy, if you play with it it'll drop off etc, the same with the vegetables, eat this and you'll grow big and strong, oh and we use the 'magic drink' trick when the kids are 'sick', water does miracles doesn't it 😆
My favourite at the moment is telling them the invisible man is watching them everyday to make sure they're being good children, but I keep getting asked 'Where is he now' so they haven't quite grasped he's invisible yet.
Are any general fibs too big to tell your children (even those we were told as kids), in that it may emotially scar them or put them at a disadvantage as they grow up?
Santa is close to disappearing since last christmas the boy (6 at time) asked why Santa had got him a Playstation game when we had got him a Playstation. How did Santa know?, Had we spoken to Santa?, When did we speak? How did we contact him?
Left me in more of a state than him 🙂
I used to wear a beige coloured fleece - when my daughter was young, I told her that they simply unzipped it from the sheep and gave it to me.
Good one for kids was the email service that allowed a child to send an email to Santa Claus and they'd get a personalised reply. I think the post office do (or did) a similar thing if you addressed letters to Santa Claus, North Pole.
One other one I did, was to create an email address for myself with a domain of @toothfairy.com (costs nothing, from www.mail.com ) - had some fun with that, one year 😆
How did Santa know?, Had we spoken to Santa?, When did we speak? How did we contact him?
Left me in more of a state than him 🙂
Yeah, final nail in Santa's coffin (so to speak) was a slip-up, when my daughter asked how come Santa had used the same wrapping paper as we did.
Good one for kids was the email service that allowed a child to send an email to Santa Claus and they'd get a personalised reply. I think the post office do (or did) a similar thing if you addressed letters to Santa Claus, North Pole.
We've done the santa video thing for our two, just fill in the blanks then you get a video message, the kids lap it up thinking santa is speaking them, they go on about it for days afterwards.
Ok - this is similar but different but I think it still counts....
We (may) have been know to alter all the clocks in the house to move bedtime earlier both when were were knackered and when a new babysitter came around...
Worked a treat, but then it was winter....
My mum told me that if I didnt wash out the shampoo in my hair properly it would cause dandruff.
I believed that for years!!!
I'm glad to hear you've all resisted the most horrible lie - that the ice cream van jingle means he's run out!
I'm glad to hear you've all resisted the most horrible lie - that the ice cream van jingle means he's run out!
One of my mates mentioned this one the other day - darn missed telling that one to my daughter - would have saved me a fortune.
How about the classic eating carrots would help you see in the dark......
Or you'd catch a cold if you went out with wet hair.