"Mummy pushed me down the stairs".. and other gems from DD

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DD has a very active imagination.

She spent a few days telling anyone who would listen that I'd pushed her down the stairs!

She told me in detail about going to the park with nursery, having a BBQ, even what she ate from the BBQ. When I asked the nursery staff they'd stayed in all day. It was January, and snowing.

I picked her up another day and in front off the staff she said "mummy pleaaaase let me have some dinner today, I'll be good!"

Anyone else managed to raise a compulsive liar?

N.b I don't push her down stairs and I do feed her

One of my sons would always hang around the nursery teachers and beg for scraps of food, saying he'd eaten nothing at all for breakfast. We're bilingual at home, so in Swedish to "tickle" is "killa". My then 5 year old son answered the phone while we were in the middle of a tickling session and breathlessly declared "I can't talk cos Mummy is killing me".

Oh, and my daughter wrote a letter to Santa in school...
Dear Santa,
Please bring my daddy some slippers cos his feet get cold and please bring my brothers some play station games.
And please please bring my mummy some wine so she gets happy.

I love 'if you don't believe everything they say happens at school we won't believe everything that happens at home'

"Mummy fell down the Christmas Tree" to my mate on the phone. I fell off a chair into it. Sounded like I was trying to climb it!

And one I posted about recently. Telling DD that I couldn't drink wine any more because I was pregnant then taking her to see "Annie" and her loudly exclaiming, "that could have been YOU, Mummy!" when Miss Hannigan appeared horrifically pissed with her bathtub gin

MrsDeVere. Hope it got sorted in the end.

Same thing happened to us with DS (has asd)

It's horrible MrsDV.

don't be! What a nightmare for you. Could happen to any of us.

I remember your situation. It stays with you. Even more frustrating given that safeguarding training doesn't seem to account for many things common to children with asd.

Why do kids do this? Is there a reason?

DD at 5 wrote in her newsbook at school that we had been on an aeroplane to New York in half term, stayed in a house in woods and she had fed a deer. When the teacher mentioned this and I said, rather bemusedly, that we had been at home doing nothing much she sighed very dramatically and said "Oh Mummy, now people will think we're really boring" We are

I used to get " you're not my mummy" in various shops from ds1. Until the day I did get someone approaching me looking concerned. His twin brothers just rolled their eyes and went, "yes she is" ( the fact that they were the spit of me might have been a clue)

Oh I pushed DS into the road (allegedly). He still bangs on about this, 14 years later!!!

Hahahahhaa love them - glad I'm not the only mother of a very imaginative child!!

Dd1 when she first started reception told them we lived in a hotel, I rode to work on a horse, she has a sister (she does now but not at the time).

She came home to me and told me she saw foxes on the field and went out side to stroke them and brought the cubs inside.

She also believed she would grow up to be a dog until the age of 5 when I came down and found her crying because she realised she would never grow up to be one - broke my heart!!!

My brother told everyone who would listen for months that daddy threw him away... My dad did! Carrying my brother he tripped on the steps outside the front door and instead of falling on top of my brother decided to throw him forward into the flower bed. Db was not impressed

I was somewhat bemused when picking DD up from nursery, age 3, to be met by staff asking if I was ok, was I coping, and finally that when a major life event happens it helps if they know, so they can support the child through it.
DD had spent the day saying "Daddy's all gone. It's just me and Mummy now, all alone. Just the girls because Daddy's just left."
Only he hadn't. He had been on an overnight work visit a few days before but had definitely come back from it. Nursery must have thought me very callous, to drop her off so cheerfully without so much as mentioning such a key event...

I was taken aside today because dd had eaten 2 bananas at snacktime and said she was very hungry because she wasntallowed breakfast because mummy was inbed.

Dp gave her cereal, toast and a yogurt, got her ready for school then gpt me out of bed. The little shitbag

Apparently when I was about 3 I loudly asked my Mum in the queue at the shops when Daddy would be home from prison. She still has no idea where that came from!

My dad was looking after dd1, when I got home she told me that grandpa had hit her, (he hadn't!) My poor dad was horrified, I think she was only about 2 maybe 2 1/2 at the time, she mentioned it the other day giggling to herself. She adores her grandpa really, no idea why she said it.

On a more serious note, when I was a nanny the older boy (who I adored) accused me of kneeling on his neck, I hadn't but his parents believed him. I think he was upset that I had handed in my notice, (they didn't really need a nanny any more as they were getting older) and he was playing up. Still breaks my heart now and this was over 15 years ago

My DD told the nursery that I threw her in the bin

I just said 'now there's an idea'

Also my DD used to randomly point at men in the street and shout 'daddy, daddy'

Poor, terrified looking men. Cracked me up though.

My DD told her key worker that she wanted a pub for Christmas because then she'd get to be with mummy, cos mummy always goes to the pub.

My DUncle owns a resteraunt pub thing, very family friendly, and I go there often to see him and the family when DD is with her dad.