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

[SheilasLemonade]

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 😂😂🙈🙈

We heard an ice cream van going past the window playing music and my DD asked "what's that noise?". I didn't have any change and didn't want a tantrum so I quickly told her it was the tomato van. Totally forgot about it until a few weeks later when we heard the music and DD went "oh, there goes the tomato van!"

Genius! 😂

The ice cream van only played music when it had ran out

I used to tell my DD Lie Stories when she was about 7. It was just a made up story, but always about her. So it would start with her saying “mummy can I have a lie story” and I would always reply “ ooh just let me think of something. But before that I need to tell you something………”

One time she was in the bath. She was really into Ariel the princess mermaid, and had a Ariel mermaid dress. So I told her that she was really a mermaid and her parents were the mermaid king and queen. And on her next birthday she would turn into a mermaid and be able to breath under water. And the queen would turn me and her dad in mermaids and we would live with her at the bottom of the sea.

Another one I remember was driving her home from school, I said the sea had risen and come into our home, so we had to use our beds as boats to get around our house (bungalow).

These things were in the computer game Skylanders and are called Chompies. I told my DS's that Chompies really exist and live in your hair and eat it and that’s what tugs are. And they would happily brush my hair for ages to help free me from such horrible things. I just really like having my hair brushed. 😆

DH has a bad scar on his leg. His parents have a picture on the wall of him with a leopard (conservation work). Ergo, DH was bitten by a leopard.
DN who is 15 still believes this.

Told my ds my real father is a famous wwf wrestler from the 80/90s, because we share a surname. He was so impressed when I showed him videos on YouTube 🤣

When my ds (5) lost his toe nail, my dad told him that there is a song you have to sing to your toe and it makes your nail grow back. It goes.... humdy gumdy humdy doo, humdy gumdy humdy day, this is what we have to sing, this is what we have to say. After this apparently the nail grows back. Anyway, ds sung to his toe every night and thinks it worked. Now whenever anyone has nail issues, he recommends this song My dad thinks it's hilarious

We have a small box in the corner of our lounge which is linked to our burglar alarm

it flashes a small red ‘dot’ on and off but we don’t notice it as it’s tiny-it looks like a small camera-it flashes sporadically

any kids that come round (mine are grown up) are told it’s a Santa cam and he’s watching them to see if they are naughty and if they are,they go on the ‘naughty children list’

if they see the red ‘dot’ it means Santa is watching

it really works (all year round) and I’ve never had a child play up but they have all been known to glance at it and you can see them thinking twice about doing something they know they shouldn’t

I told my nephew that wind was caused by trees waving to each other. Forgot about it then about a year later heard him telling someone else! I let him down gently!

When I was four, we stayed in a holiday apartment in Spain. There was some kind of hidden, curtained doorway in one wall and my dad fooled me into believing he could pass through solid walls, like a ghost. He told me that ghosts do exist in Spain, but not in the UK. I believed this for years and even wrote about it in primary school. Goodness knows what the teacher made of this.

Dad also told me that people with blue eyes can see better in the dark than people with brown eyes, but in the daytime, brown-eyed people can see better than blue-eyed people. He denies ever saying this. My dad didn’t half talk a lot of rhubarb.

That the toenail fairy comes and clips her toenails in the night and takes them to his underground nest in the garden made of toenail clippings, soil and cat's fur...

First DC thought that cherry tomatoes were sweets... he had his first Harribo at 5... never seen such excitement on a child's face... he is now very greedy with sweets 🫣

That the cat takes her fur off at night and hangs it up - that s why you never see a cat with creased fur.

Backfired, as my daughter used to beg ti stay up until Pele-cat's bedtime so she could see how her fur unzipped.

My DH used to tell DC that he could see round corners!

That aero mousses were coffee flavoured so he wouldn't want any. It worked brilliantly until he learnt to recognise the word chocolate.

My mum was the family story teller to my child. Among her best was that she (my mum) taught native Americans how to.skip. And that she used to be Wonder Woman, but she retired, and now I was, daughter better practice because she would be Wonder Woman when I retired.

daughter lapped it up. It didn't seem to have any ill affects, and at least one of mum's stories made it into her eulogy when she died. All the grandchildren smiled, so I guess daughter was not the only grandchild to hear mum's tall tales.

The tooth fairy once left my cousin a £5 Boots voucher as she'd run out of cash!

Gu puddings are laced with alcohol and only adults are allowed to eat them.

Love this

My
Mum told me that big spiders didn't make webs one day when I was scared of a cobweb. I believed that until I told an office full of people when I was in my 20s
Who informed me it wasn't true. I liked believing it.

My DD2 would not hold my hand when we were crossing parking lots. I was afraid she would get hit my a car backing in or out. So I told her that all the grease marks on the pavement were the remains of children who didn't hold their parent's hand and got squished. Even pointed out on near the grocery store door and told her it was a little boy I had known - named Charles.
She believed it and held my hand from then on -- but she was very careful not to step on any grease spot so as not to disrespect the dead!

Our was that they are "juice pipes", different colours transport different flavours

I was desperate to potty train DS aged just 3. I told him the shop keeper had refused to sell me any more nappies because he had heard DS was 3 now and it's illegal to sell nappies to over 3s. It worked a treat and he went straight on to near perfect toilet use (was just being lazy up to that point!).

@LeNil

I love this, especially taking it to school 💞