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Confession Time!!!

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Pleb1969 · 28/08/2010 20:04

Done something shitty to DD or DS and now feel guilty? Get it off your chest here and ask forgiveness for your sins. I will start the ball rolling...

DS2 has been growing cucumbers in the garden (very successfully, I might add?) and DS 3 has been growing tomatoes. The particular variety of cucumber should only grow to about the size of a small banana. My parents gave us a marrow that was too big for the 2 of them to share, DH thought it would be a larf to trick DS2 that it was a freakishly huge cucumber from his plant. He totally fell for it and cried tears of joy at the thought of having produced such a mammoth cucumber. We didn't have the heart to confess and shatter his illusions so now the entire family has had to lie aswell. We drove 160 miles to the inlaws with the marrow/cucumber and he cried again when showing it to grandma (who was in on it and backed us up!) We then cooked it following grandma's 'stuffed cucumber' recipe (all references to marrow carefully replaced by the word cucumber) and he stated how proud he was to have fed the whole family with just one cucumber. He then asked for us to take a photo so that he could show his class when he goes back to school next week. Oh, the tangled web we weave... At what point do we confess, or do we carry on and hope he forgets it eventually? My idea was to confess in a letter, keep it in a safety deposit box 'to be opened on my death' type thing...

So, I have confessed my sin, am I going to hell or can this crime against my son be forgiven?

Has anyone else told a terrible porkie that backfired?

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zazen · 28/08/2010 20:19

Keep quiet about it is my advice.

What effect do you want - you might feel better, but he won't, in fact it could be one of those memories that never go away.

He'll go away with the shameful message that he's useless and can't feed a family with his effort, and that you're all in it against him: you'll just sleep better, or not.

I guess you've learnt your lesson, but don't teach him the wrong one...

TheCrackFox · 28/08/2010 20:25

Don't tell him until he is about 25yrs. FWIW it is the sort of thing that I would do the difference is I chuckle about it for years after.

Pleb1969 · 28/08/2010 20:27

oops, only meant this as a tongue in cheek post, not to be taken too seriously, although thank you for your advice! We have no intention of telling him (he's only 8) right now - maybe when he's older and can see the funny side. Thought this may prompt others to share humerous stories about the fibs they may have told their children!

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Pleb1969 · 28/08/2010 20:28

We do chuckle CrackFox, just not when he's within earshot! Wink

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TheCrackFox · 28/08/2010 20:31

My dad convinced me that my Bonsai tree had grown a satsuma over night. I completely believed him. The truth dawned several years later. Grin

Pleb1969 · 28/08/2010 20:35

Love the satsuma one! One of my friends replaced her sons piddly pumpkin with a massive shop bought one and he still brags about it now... He's 21...

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TheCrackFox · 28/08/2010 20:36
Grin

She could tell everyone the truth on his wedding day.Grin

grumpykat25 · 29/08/2010 21:33

my dad told me that the sheep on the hills in Wales have legs longer on one side to make walking round the hills easier.
I was a gullible child Hmm

puppie · 31/08/2010 13:10

My dad made me plant a feather in the garden and lo and behold the next day there was a chicken running around the garden. (My brother shattered that illusion a few months later)

TheLemur · 01/09/2010 10:08

I tell DS 3.0 that the breakfast fairies have put out his bowl and filled it up each morning

SquishedEgg · 03/09/2010 23:00

grumpy kat- i thought that was a haggis? Doesn't everyone know a haggis is a small roung creature which lives on a hill and has longer legs on one side than the other, so to catch them you have to chase them around the hill the other way. Or am I just unusually cruel to my DCs?

AT age 2 1/2 DD1 told the health visitor (who had come to see new baby) that she had a baby in her tummy too, and that Daddy had put it there Blush

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