And so the deceit from dcs childhood catches up with me....

[Caughtinmyweboflies]

What started as an innocent conversation has turned into a confession session, and my 21yo is shocked.

We were talking about a band he listened to as a kid (JLS if you're interested), and it came about that I told him when he was maybe 5 or 6 that their names were Aston, JB, Colin and Jeff (couldn't remember the other 2s names) and he just never questioned it for all these years.

As the conversation went on I had to confess to a multitude of things like dropping cool metal things ahead of him when he was out with his metal detector, he thought he was just really lucky, he thought he saw a meteor hit earth when he was about 8, they were doing a thing at school where an 'alien' crashed into earth and they did a whole term around teaching the alien stuff, so the night before I stood outside his bedroom window with a stereo and a flashlight, and he saw and heard this meteor and just never questioned it.

All in all I had to confess to maybe 10 things that I did to make his childhood magical and he is shook.

He's very clever, at uni, paying his own way by working full time, own flat etc, but he just never really questioned anything (also autistic and takes everything at face value as we have learned in the last few years).

I'm sitting here wracking my brains to other stuff I have done now.

(Lighthearted, he is actually very grateful and thanked me then got a bit teary, after he told me off 🤣)

Anyone else had innocent lies catch up with them?

Very similar. DS1 adored (still does at 15) the entire jellycat range. He had a blue cat. He loved it so much. We called it 'Blue Jelly'.** Then he lost it. We could not find another Blue Jelly anywhere. In desperation we bought a pink version and called it 'Pink Jelly' and told him that Blue Jelly fancied a change of clothes. Then someone lovely on MN found another Blue Jelly for us and so we had a second much cleaner Blue Jelly.

All well and good. But about 2 years later he piped up with 'Where did the first Blue Jelly go?'.

We ended up finding the original Blue Jelly and now he still sleeps with 'Pink Jelly', 'Blue Jelly' and 'The Other Blue Jelly'

**We have never been terribly creative with names

My car had an EJECT button in the car, which the manufacturers hadn’t labelled as it was a secret button.

Press EJECT and any naughty kids on the backseat would be catapulted out the rear window.

Hey it worked for a few critical
years anyhow!

When I was a small child I must have had a lot of colds and the Doctor told me I was allergic to the common cold ,I spent years thinking this was an actual allergy and when asked in a science class at secondary school if anyone had any allergies i told them about " my" allergy 🙈
Looking back it was a really stupid thing of the Gp to say.

Lol my Dh told Ds1 one of yhe buttons would make the car fly 🤣🤣

DC’s rabbit died and we told them that the rabbit missed its family and had gone back to the local nature reserve to be with them.

When we had a landline if they were misbehaving near Christmas I would ring the landline from
my mobile and pretend Santa was compiling the nice list and checking in with me to see how DC were behaving. It never failed.

Dh tells our children the ice cream van only plays when it has run out of ice cream

We lost a stuffed rabbit and found one on eBay, when it arrived it was the bigger version, we told dd it had grown while it had been away, which she bought, she was about 3 I think, no idea when she worked it out, but pretty sure at 17 she now knows we bought a replacement.

Oh god yes I had this about certain things! I also used to wonder why my Mam or Dad were always going to “see a man about a dog” when I asked where they were.

The town where we lived had a special father Christmas on a sleigh on Xmas eve. Went down the High Street, chucking sweets out for the kids. Mine beleived for years that clever Daddy always managed to catch them. In actual fact, he swiped a handful of heroes before leaving the house.......another family taught us this trick!

My dad was an economics lecturer and told the students that there was a thriving economy in Wales where farmers would make stilts for sheep. The sheep would have stilts on their legs on one side only so that they could walk across steep slopes. My dad says several of the students earnestly copied this ‘fact’ down.

My children believed that their grandfather built the Forth Road Bridge for many years. He was involved in building other bridges, to be fair. I’m fairly sure they told some of their friends so his reputation as master bridge builder lives on.

My 20 year old son has just discovered that he’s not allergic to yoghurt after all. I told him he was allergic to it during his primary school days as whenever he chose one for school dinner in reception class he would always return home with it smeared down his jumper smelling rancid etc.
No feelings of remorse here - those school jumpers were woollen and had to go on a special wash cycle and took at least two days to dry as they couldn’t be tumble dried.

A mean old uncle used to tell us kids that the ice cream van played music to let people know there was none left !!

When ds was about 4,he went through a Disney Princess stage
He also hated all veg
I told him that carrots,sweetcorn and peas where not veg,they where princess jewels and aurora the princess (who we called dolly) loved them
He didn't question it and scoffed his 'princess jewels' for years
He's 19 now and I got a text about 4 years ago to inform me that they where not called 'princess jewels' but plain and boring veg
He still eats all 3 so I'm not too bothered

Many years ago as a child,I lived with my grandad and my mother was a sucker for anything free
At the time,there was a doll called flower fairies-same doll,either blonde or black hair and different outfits
They had some offer,that if you collected the tokens from the packaging,you could send off for a tiny purple treasure box (to put in any fallen out teeth)
(We'll ignore the fact the dolls cost money to buy and she had to pay a fee to cover postage-the box was free and that's what mattered)
Anyway,she sent off for it and it arrived
I waited forever for a tooth to fall out and finally the day arrived
I gleefully popped it in my box and placed it under my pillow
The next morning,there was my shiny 10p but the tooth was still in the box,the tooth fairy takes teeth,that's the while point
I asked grandad why and quick as a flash he told me that 'the tooth fairy has arthritis and couldn't manage to open it'
I believed my darling grandad for years-after all,he would never lied to me...

(Technically he didn't even lie-my tooth fairy really did suffer with arthritis!)

Dad told me my goldfish had put weight on at the vets. It could barely turn around in the bowl. He then said it went to the school pond. So I used to look through the bars where the pond was trying to see it.

Years ago I rang and spoke to my friends dcs when they were little and pretended to be Rudolf. Santa and the elves were too busy. I told them they had to be good or they wouldn't get good Christmas presents. They were mulch better behaved that year 😅
They have dcs of their own now.

Not exactly a lie, but lovely neighbours when I was a child looked after my small aquarium while we were on holiday. I was told only many years later that my catfish had died, and they’d been to every pet shop for miles to find a replacement!

Evil genius! I'm an elder sister and wish I had thought of that!

Both my DDS believed Nutella could only be bought in France until around 8 /9( we holidayed on France yearly and always bought a big jar there). They would see it in UK supermarkets, and we would all say it was really sad we couldn't buy any as we weren't in France.

Icecream can play the music when empty - check

in my defence Dd only liked fabs so I had them int he freezer anyway

the weirdest one, and I don’t know why I did it … Dd genuinely thought I could lay kinder eggs. Like a chicken.
again would have them in the fridge tucked out of sight and when she fancied one id sneak one into my waistband and do a whole clucking straining dance. WHY DID I DO THAT

I used to have to do it for her friends too 🤦🏼‍♀️ oddly I couldn’t even manage more than 3 (3 pack lol)

I told her in the car on the way to my oldest friends about Santa and the Easter Bunn. She was about to start secondary school - a grammar of bitchy girls and completely believed still so I thought I should tell her
she. Was. Furious.
told me I’d ruined her childhood with lies etc

got to my friends and she announced to her that I was awful and a liar and my bestie says ‘oh god how did you feel about all the tooth fairy letters too?’

lord have mercy on my soul.

I had a male friend who's voice sounded much deeper on the phone than it did it person
If the kids where playing up,I'd get him to send a voice note pretending to be santa,telling them he was watching and to be good or no presents
I used it sparingly but it was a godsend on those days that they pushed every bloody button I had and finally sat on my last nerve
Youngest dd would tell everyone that 'mummy knows the real santa' and I'd see adults trying to keep a straight face

I told the kids that grandad used to roam the earth with the dinosaurs
It was a bit of a running joke that poor grandad was reeeaaallllllyyy old and we kept it going for years
Anyway,we'd been to the beach and they found a fossil
They proudly brought it home and as a joke,I told them it was grandads best friend at school called Rodney and they believed me
I could have kept this going for ages but grandad came round about a week later and told the kids the truth when they proudly showed him Rodney and theyd asked what old Rodders was like as a friend 'back in the old days'

I also told younger dd that I was 21 (I had her at 29) and she believed I was 21 on every birthday I had after that
She would tell everyone that 'my mummy is 21' for years (and long after I stopped looking anything like 21)
She once threw a massive tantrum because her sister bought me candles shaped in a 3 and a 4
'My mummy is twwweeennntttyyy ooonnneee!you've bought the wrong candles for my mummy!'
Kept it going for years-we laugh about it now

I’ve told my 6yr old twins that there might be tigers in the woods to make our woodland walks more exciting when we hear rustling or twigs snapping near by. They have no idea the UK doesn’t have tigers, and I don’t want to pop their little bubbles just yet….. 🥹

At school my ‘Friends’ told me that a twat was a pregnant goldfish. I believed this until I was about 55

When my sons were 4 and 5 they desperately wanted a budgie. On the Sunday we took them out to get one and they excitedly chose a plain yellow one. When I woke up the next morning it was lying dead at the bottom of the cage. We couldn't bear the thought of their disappointment, so before they woke up we sellotaped it upright to its perch. Before they left for school we said budgie is sleeping so just wave goodbye from the living room doorway. Once I had dropped them off I drove back to the shop to get another, unfortunately they only had a yellow and green one. We had to tell them that when budgies are happy in their new home they sometimes grow green feathers overnight!
Luckily they find the story amusing now!

Why though? I know it's sweet but it's ok occasionally surely?