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 😂😂🙈🙈

I told my very intelligent 5 year old that too much TV meant your eyes went square and popped out.
Every so often I’d comment that she watched the TV for too long. For about 7/8 years she would go to the bathroom straight after and turn the TV off immediately.
She was checking her eyes weren’t popping out - poor thing

A friend admitted that she told her kids when the ice cream van played its tune it meant they’d run out.

My dad told me that when I was little, he told me that children's changing rooms were places you went to swap your child for a different one if they were naughty, so if I didn't behave, he'd leave me there and swap me for someone better behaved

The my little pony story is gorgeous but yeah, that one has to go to the grave!

They kept asking to go the park one Sunday and I literally couldn't face another trip to the park so I said a gang of youths set fire to the park and everyone was talking about it and it will be closed for a while. When we walked past a day or so later walking to school they asked why it was open. I acted shocked and said I can't believe it.

@HereWeAreAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld my godmother had snakes! So I've handled quite a few

I don't think mine will be that bothered by the lies because they're in very good humour and that's kind of the culture they've grown up in. My dad is the biggest teller of tall stories around and it used to delight me and my siblings and now the grandchildren in turn. So for me personally, no, I don't think it'll be an issue because they're always such ridiculous funny things like the toileting habits of snakes!