To ask for your best 'parent lies' (lighthearted).

[ThatGingerOne]

We all know the ice cream man only rings his tune when there's none left

Wombles are real

Please let this be true.

You really need your hair washed to get the flies wee wee out. It worked.

Monsters scared of fresh minty breath...

Just. Bloody. Genius.

I use "the pilot's watching and only gives good children a lollipop" on flights. It works everytime.

On long haul flights I tell the kids that it's a "sleeping plane" and the pilot checks whether children are asleep.

I also use "the policeman will come and tell you off" as a way to enforce seatbelts and crossing-the-road rules.

During the year, Santa drives around in a red helicopter to check that children are being good.

The two elderly donkeys who lived next to the village pub were retired to the seaside.

If you are very quiet and well behaved at the seaside then the sea rabbits might come out and play on the beach.

Eyes in the back of my head. All mummy's receive them at the moment they give birth. They can see everything (often reflected in a window).

That place we're going, no you'd hate it. It's the Museum of Concrete.

Thorntons is adult chocolate. It makes kids sick.

I also persuaded her to eat brussel sprouts for the first time the other day by renaming them elf cabbage. She declared them delicious and had 3.

I got mine to eat romaine by telling them it was "Klingon cauliflower"

Wow I love everything on this thread, some of them are hilarious.

You're all terrible by the way haha! Just kidding!

DNephew hated all veg except celery when he was little. It's amazing how many varieties of celery there are...orange celery, white celery, celery with seeds (peas) etc

Oh and if you act up on a ferry/plane they put you in a box in the hold and you're not allowed to take teddy. Feel quite bad about that one but it worked!!