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?

He was known as twice-nightly Whitely though!

I recall telling my mother when I was 40+ that I used to write notes from her to get out of games when it was cold, the wind would fair scream across the valley! She was really mad and surprised I got away with it but I had invested in some proper notepaper and envelopes, Basildon Bond for fellow wrinkles, so they looked genuine.

We used to say that their tongue had black spots on if they lied, it worked for years.

This has brought tears to my eyes 🥰

This is genius!

Wet tell the kids the most random stuff. I’m one of 3 sisters and wet constantly try to one up each other. It started years ago when my dd was 5 and I said that her aunty used to be a dancer, not any old dancer but she danced with Michael flattery and was the dame to his lord. I got a blurry camcorder video up on YouTube and was like LOOK! That’s your aunty when she was younger and thinner. All of the kids just accepted it as yes, that was clearly her. Then they assured her to dance and she said she couldn’t dance after the awful ankle tendon tear of 2002 , that ended her career. Very sad.

we constantly do it and the Unwritten rule is that whatever the sister says, you have to commit and give it your all.

i got a photoshop done of my two sisters on a stage breakdancing and tucked the photo so it was poking out of a drawer for them to find and then regaled the kids with stories of how they were so close to winning the Euro champion break dancing and rap battle finals in 2013. Last year were were going down a motorway that had been replanted down the sides with baby trees in those protective tubes. My DN asked what they were and so the giant toilet roll tree was born. Those tubes are the core of the toilet roll and over time the rolls develop paper, we all know that paper comes from trees right? . Then the feilds were full of black wrapped giant round bales and obviously they were the fully developed toilet rolls ready to be cut up and shipped out.

Years ago when I was 6 or 7 we were watching some show with Bob Monkhouse on. You had to ring up to vote for something. My dad let me phone in as it was my birthday and said after how exciting it was I'd got to speak to Bob Monkhouse and for years I believed I had.
I'm sure I must have told my kids things too but hopefully not traumatized then for life

Mine told me you'd blow big bubbles out of your bum if you swallowed it.

I absolutely LOVE this thread.

DS1 (21) recently told how he was rather furious aged 11 when he discovered that there were no 'lamplighters' lighting the street lights. Obviously originally there were, but not flying ones in 2015! He'd been desperate to see one when little & was quite perturbed when I told the story again to DS3, as at 11 he could clearly tell it was a lie! We laugh now, but he was quite the pissed off pre-teen.

Can I just say, all these little things you have done to give him some extra magic in his life - that's what makes you a great mum, well done you. The email from santa? Absolutely joyous

DH used to work in an old mill with a giant chimney, he used to bring cupcakes home from work when our DCs were little and tell them he made them at work in the giant chimney.

When I was very small we went for a walk in the forest on Easter Sunday. It was my family, another family and a friend of both families who was a single man. I was the youngest child there. The single man ate a cereal bar and told me the Easter bunny had put a treasure map inside the wrapper. Off we went, following the ‘map’ in the wrapper, until we got to a certain tree and on the ground behind the tree trunk was a massive Easter egg! I was so happy. Best Easter ever!

No one ever confessed to this deceit but I still love it as a childhood memory and to this day I’m not sure how he did it 😁

DS 12 recently bought some Smarties on his way home from school. When he got home, he said 'Don't worry Mum, I didn't eat the orange ones'.

I'd forgotten I used to tell him he was allergic to them when he was little.

He isn't, I just like the orange ones as they're orange flavoured so I used to nick them off him and scoff them.

When I tell you I HOWLED!!!

He was shook but still offered them to me 💝

I mostly didn’t lie to my kids about anything, so many shitty adults told me completely false things. People told me things to get good behavior or to do what they wanted … kind of a stupid idea.

father Xmas, Easter bunny & tooth fairy for a few years. When i told the oldest that there was “no such thing as magic” he immediately realised those magic people were me.

I told them age appropriate truth.

I can't be the only one who stood in the garden on Christmas Eve a few years ago watching Santa flying over, lots of lights on his sleigh, our granddaughter was totally blown away. Never has the Space Station received so much attention!

I told DS that it was because she needed to keep her 1m distance (lockdown) so she couldn't get close enough to his pillow while he was in bed. Suggested he came and slept in our bed that night. Lo and behold she came.

Our granddaughter didn't like lettuce but when grandad grew some she became a convert, when he Daddy came to collect her to spend some time with him she had a freezer bag full of lettuce, 'This should be enough for a week', as we all looked at the bag of quickly withering leaves.

My daughter is a teacher, with 2 degrees.(relevant) We had a sensor bin and I'd told her little boy you had to sweep your arm over the top like a magician, shout open and it would open, give it a few seconds and shout close and it would close. He would run round the island, wave his hand over the bin and shout open and the time taken to run round was exactly the same time that it took for it to close, whilst he was shouting close. I told my daughter it was voice activated, and she spent a lot of time shouting at it and couldn't understand why she couldn't make it work.

My mum used to do B&B. We had a little girl staying with us who didn't like eggs but absolutely loved our pony Stanley. I told her the eggs were specially laid for her by Stanley and then she ate them happily.

That was funny enough but when they got home her mum continued the deception. Every week or so they would receive a box of Stanley eggs through the post. They came in a supermarket branded box 'for protection'. The little girl never questioned why they didn't get broken in the post or why the box wasn't stamped or addressed. I don't know if the mum ever confessed!

Ice cream van playing music means it's run out of ice cream

Exploded pigeons - going for a walk in the park and seeing pigeon feathers, exploded seemed kinder than saying eaten by a fox! 16 yr old only just found out that pigeons don't actually explode!!

Colin and Jeff 😂

That reminded me of my dad. he is the oldest of 4 and had 3 sisters. The youngest one just never stopped talking so he told her that everyone was given a set number of words to last their entire lifetime and she was in danger of using them up.

She went totally mute for months until he fessed up (but not before they had carted her around various doctors).

I love it, mine are 6 and 1, anything to add to the magic.

My nan told me that my rabbit had gone away to get married. For years I thought of him in a little suit with a flower in his pocket. He might have had more fun at the zoo.

My dear mother, although very intelligent, never really got the hang of technology. When we had our first video recorder (late ‘70’s), I told her that when it was recording, nobody was to make a sound or it would pick up the noise like a tape recorder would, Bless her, for over 2 hours she crept around the house whilst a film was recording.
Another time, we had an outbuilding that had got a little damp. There was no power socket in it so my dad used a long extension lead from the house and put a heater in there for a few hours. The door was quite a snug fit over the lead so I told her that every so often she needed to go and open the door to let any electricity through that had piled up. She had nearly fallen for that one but I couldn’t keep a straight face.
i was probably just getting my own back for the things my older brothers had told me when i was small. The most memorable one was when we were watching Winston Churchills funeral on tv (b & w of course!). When they did the 21 gun salute, my brothers told me that that was when they were shooting him up to heaven. I watched really closely and was quite convinced that I saw it happen.

This is a weird one, not meant to put a damper on the thread but It was something that worked really well!

DH told our DC never talk to a stranger or get in a stranger's car because they might take them somewhere and smack their bottoms ALL NIGHT LONG.

They're in their 30's now and tell us that it definitely worked.
Don't really know if I liked it or not but they stayed safe.