The most outlandish lie you've ever told your child, and they believed.

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Many years ago, when DS was five, I told him that I'd won a gold medal for playing thumb wars in the 2004 olympics. He completely believed me, as you would being five years old. Asked to see my medal but I explained it was buried in the loft somewhere.

We've just sold our house and are planning on clearing some of the loft tomorrow. DS (now nine) pipes up "ooh mum, we can look for your thumb wars medal!!"

I've just had to break it to him that I lied! I can't believe he remembered 😂😂🙈🙈

My kids do still believe (13 & 10) that if you ever pick up a phone in a hotel, b&b or any sort of holiday home, we will automatically be charged £10.
Told them that from 4 years old 😁

I told DD2 that mummies can’t read so daddy would have to read her a story every night.
When she used to catch me with a book, I told her I was just pretending to read it.
She cottoned on when she had grown out of bedtime stories.

Me too. DS used to test me by holding fingers up behind my head and I had an outrageous success rate.

The chocolate in the supermarket contains wine so not for children. 2 years on and still no tantrums over not being allowed to go down the sweetie isle 😳.

I do also tell my kids that I am running away to join the circus regularly.

They just roll their eyes now when I start telling them tall tales.

This lovely. Really made me smile

Meant to say ‘this is lovely’

I have a round textured birth mark on the back of my head. When questioned if I really did have eyes in the back of my head I let dd feel it through my hair as confirmation. It was believed for years

Mines a bit ironic i guess. Told my dds that when they lie to me they liar spots on their tongues that only I can see. Eldest is 7 and has believed it for years

I had an operation on a suspect thing on my cheek. When I saw my grandson and he asked what the stitches and bandage was for, I told him I'd been swimming, got attacked by a shark and had to punch the shark to get it off.
Didn't think anything of it until I was in work ( shop) with him and he was with me. A work friend asked about my face and he jumped in, telling her all about the shark attack etc. She then asked loads of questions as to where it happened, when and so on, so I had to think on my feet and make up a story whilst my gs was lapping it up. He still believes it now.

That I was ‘Sandy’ from Grease. Before I met his Dad. He was watching it when he was about 4 and pointed to the tv and said ‘is that you Mummy?’
I didn’t correct him snd the lie grew and grew. I had to come clean when we were on holiday a few years later and we palled up with 2/3 families. Ds2 told everyone that I was famous. Cue some awkward conversations and a sheepish reveal to everyone who found it hilarious. Ds2 was surprisingly not phased by it! 🤦‍♀️

Only the Santa thing to be honest.

When I was at university one of the boys in our accommodation still thought the music playing from the ice-cream van meant it had run out.

We were 19 and his parents never told him! I don't think he actively still believed it, but it was a completely ingrained response.

I remember saying a few stupid things at school that I'd believed adults over, and getting made fun of. That's probably why I've never done it with my own.

I used to tell my children that the ice cream van was infact the vegetable seller.

My dad told me...
The fields you pass with plastic strips on them, is where they grow carrier bags.
I was older than I care to admit when I found out the truth.

I love this

This thread is ace! I’m going to be nabbing quite a few of these 😂

Told DD that the Prime Minister had decreed there was to be only brown bread. She believed me for a few months.

During lockdown I told my then 4 year old that the carbon monoxide alarm was a phonics alarm, and it would go off and school would be alerted if she didn't do her phonics activity (which was a 2 minute video) 😂

This was a mutual lie. I don’t think Dd2 wanted pierced ears. I don’t remember her age but I guess late primary age. She randomly stated “ if I have my ears pierced I won’t be able to skate for six weeks, will i Mum?”

Now ice skating is the thing she lives for and I didn’t want her ears pierced either. So I wholeheartedly agreed with her. No skating for six weeks to let the piercings heal.

We kept this mutual lie going for years until a friend called her out on it. She is now nearly 20 still ice skating and still has no piercings.

My kids never believe any of the nonsense I tell them, somehow they always know. It makes them laugh though!

Oh, except that they will get scurvy if they don't eat fruit and vegetables! Somewhat true but I have very much exaggerated the risk of catching scurvy and they seem to take it quite seriously.

Father Christmas couldn't come as he had a puncture on his sleigh.

Actually I haven't said this yet - but I just might...

Last week DS 9 said he had to make sure the tooth fairy envelope was directly under his pillow and I was confused and asked why. He said “remember that time when I hung it up on my bed post and the tooth fairy didn’t come. You said she’d only come if the envelope was under my pillow so it’s got to go under my pillow”

oh yes - that time a year or so ago when the tooth fairy completely forgot to come and had to try again the next day! 😳

That the Tooth Fairy flying is wether dependent, is she doesn't turn up for a few days it was because it was too wet or windy for her to take off.

My DS refused to eat nuts when he was little , so I told him After Eights had nuts in them to stop him snaffling them. Of course he found out I was fibbing .

He's now 22yo and still beliebes I played guitar in a band ( it was a Church YouthClub group)
He has 3 guitars and won't let me touch any of them so I've never been called out .
I still say when I was with the Band.............