"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

DS2 was a total nightmare toddler When DH once insisted he hold his hand walking to the car he screamed "you're not my father"(then more quietly )"mummy is"

My DD aged about 4 helped herself to a glass champagne at a christening & took a large drink before I could stop her. I can still picture the look of astonishment on the faces of the other parents as she assured them that it was ok because "my mummy always lets me drink wine".

First day home from hospital with DD2 and the MW came to visit, general small chat and DD1 climbed into the moses basket, the MW said 'DD1 that is baby's bed, you have a big girl bed of your own' DD1 replied 'but I sleep in the cupboard' and let out a rather large sob. I had never met the MW before and so I took her upstairs to see DD's bedroom, where DD1 promptly climbed into the bottom of the built in cupboard and snuggled down on the cat blanket on the floor!

DD can tell nursery in great detail all about her weekend events - even those that didn't happen.

Better that than the time that we were just leaving the house and she took off her shoes in the open doorway and when I tried to put them on she screamed "don't kill me mummy"

puds my DS2 used to do that too-even if he was out with his dad :)

It's hilarious Sagely Most confusing for the men folk

In reception at our school we get a letter saying "if you promise not to believe everything they tell you at home about us, we promise not to believe everything they tell us at school about you"

This is terrifying stuff. Surely some parents must have been reported to SS by people hearing some of these fibs by their children?

My eldest niece told her teacher at 'news' that her daddy hit her. Her daddy doesnt but what we found concerning was the fact that cos my sil is on the parent council and my brother - a firefighter - goes to the school regularly to do fire safety talks, the teacher laughingly dismissed her claim

Yes in this case it was ok but we all found it a concern that because her parents are 'respectable' they were innocent

My Dsis phoned to ask how my poorly DD (5.4) was feeling and DD replied "I'm feeling better, the alcohol worked."

I had to hastily explain that DD meant the Lucozade had stopped her vomiting, but she had been pronouncing it Locozade, and then must have got further confused and called it Alcohol!

My younger brother had measles in august in late 80's once and still had the marks when he went back to school, He was only 7 or 8 so when he was getting changed for p.e. the teacher noticed the marks and asked what they were, he told him his dad puts out ciggarettes on his arms and beats him.

Unfortunately social services were involved, and it took around 3 meetings for them to believe my dad. Little brat never did it again though!

DD also drew a picture at pre school of me "cleaning and shouting" . I rarely do either.

I would hate to have a child who does what some of these children have done - eg accusing parent of physical abuse, completely fictional, in front of other adults. Really scary stuff. How do you trust your own child?

Has your child never made anything up dinosaur? Blimey.

The kind of thing I'm talking about is telling your school that lumps on your arm (actually caused by measles) are the result of your dad burning you with cigarettes (as one poster has mentioned). That is scary stuff, which resulted in a SS investigation FGS! What if the child accuses the parent of things that can't be verified one way or the other - that could have a really bad outcome, and at the least there will be paperwork at SS and/or school etc about the allegations.

I agree dinosaur, it's fucking terrifying! My DD is nearly 2 so I'm worried I have all this to come. DSS has said some silly things as jokes but packed it in and apologised when school made noises. I think they made those noises because he's my DSS but that's another issue...

To those with younger non talking children, not all children tell fibs like these
I have a 6 and a 4 year old who have never tried anything of the sort
The younger is far too honest for is own good
And the older only attempts to lie About things like having eaten his packed lunch and not having broken the toy his brother is crying over. His attempts at lying are also generally quite poor.

This isn't a phase all children go through

I haven't come across it either. Based on reading MN, if your child says something in the supermarket about you having thrown them down the stairs or whatever, there's a good chance someone will report you.

Ds is 4 and tells lovely creative stories about a boy (real) in his class who can jump into the air and fly and run on the walls.

He also tells people that he (ds) wins trophies in lots of different sports in made up towns.

My Ds swears that I used to dunk his head down the toilet when he was a baby

my daughter likes to pretend she has a different name which is fine in the house but we do get some funny looks when I speak to her in the street and she shouts 'I'm not called that my name is Sophie!'

My girls aged 5 and 7 have a thing about saying 'Daddy's drunk', for some reason they think it's hilarious, and my seven year old even wrote "my Daddy drinks too much" in her homework book when asked for a sentence with the word 'too' in it. I made her add 'tea' to the end of the sentence!!!

I don't know why they keep on saying this, since DH actually almost never drinks, and in fact I don't think they have ever seen him drink anything other than tea or squash!!! I dread to think what people think when they keep saying that though.