Lies you tell your DC to make your life easier?

[HiddenTheRemote]

What lies do you tell your DC to make your life easier? I once gave my little DS a beef and horseradish crisp to try which he didn't like because it was 'hot and spicy'. Now he'll happily eat carrot sticks while I'm munching crisps of any flavour because I tell him they're the 'hot and spicy' ones even if they aren't. Feels like win-win. He eats a healthy snack and I don't have to share my crisps .

I can't eat wheat. I used to say every thing I wanted to snuffle myself was as special gluten free one for Mummy. Now I have to hide everything

@HiddenTheRemote

What lies do you tell your DC to make your life easier? I once gave my little DS a beef and horseradish crisp to try which he didn't like because it was 'hot and spicy'. Now he'll happily eat carrot sticks while I'm munching crisps of any flavour because I tell him they're the 'hot and spicy' ones even if they aren't. Feels like win-win. He eats a healthy snack and I don't have to share my crisps .

I am banking this for when my child arrives 🤣

Tooth fairy doesn't pay up for black unbrushed teeth.. Brush twice a day to make them worth her pound!

That they didn’t sell replacement batteries for my DD’s singing baby shark toy.
That the internet lady turns the internet off at 7pm each evening.
We have to leave the zoo now. The zookeeper called my phone and your whining is upsetting the animals.

My daughter when she was younger, loved the bath and used to have a fit when I told her it was time to get out. So I explained to her, if she stayed in the bath too long she would turn into a fish. She believed this and from then on, my DD would get out the bath everytime I asked with no tantrum.

Every meat and fish is now being called Chicken- my 3yr old knows she likes chicken hence she then ate the salmon!

That swede is in fact red potatoes. He hated swede but liked red potatoes apparently. Ds was about 14 before he realised that red potatoes were not swede and he'd eaten mashed swede, and swede in stews and casseroles for more than a decade..

When I read your title I immediately thought of how I tell DD things are spicy when I don’t want her to eat them. My DD likes burgers but is funny about mince in any other form so meatballs are now burger pasta, lasagne is burger lasagne etc
There’s also a few things that you’re not allowed to do in the car because the police will tell you off - having windows open on the motorway and shouting/screaming in the car

I don't like lying to kids and tried not to do it. The whole Father Christmas and tooth fairy thing is ridiculous when you think about it.

If they wanted something or wanted to do something and asked why I had said no, I'd reply with "it is against my law" - for a long time this was never questioned. Then they grew up, and realised its just one of the weird things I say and that my law isn't as powerful as the real law. I am met with eye rolls when I say it now lol.

Also, everything I tried encouraging them to do would be because "its magic" if they ask what good vegetables are "well, they're really good for you and they're magic" or if they asked how I knew their little plots, it would be because of magic.
This one they believed for a long time because I knew so many things I shouldn't have known. They now know just because I'm not in the same room, doesn't mean I can't hear them.

I still say things are due to magic. But again, this is met with eye rolls or a "for god sake"

They believed I could teleport for a while too.

I don't like lying to kids and tried not to do it. The whole Father Christmas and tooth fairy thing is ridiculous when you think about it.

There’s always one 🤣

I told DS that black jellybeans were sheep poo and he must never eat them but should give them to me instead. Worked until he was about 8 years old.

That their dad is working away this week, instead of that he’s at home with his partner and hasn’t asked to see them

Told my DD her ears turn red when she's telling fibs. Works a treat!

My kids are older now, but when they were small I'd read never to say " The policeman will tell you off " or suchlike to scare kids . One day they might need to get to them as a child in danger , but see them as the bogeyman too.

@TheChip my dad put everything down down to magic too!

He also told me that when the ice cream van played it's music it meant it was out of ice cream.

And "the man / the lady". Stop doing that or I'll tell the man. What man??

"Swimming pools don't open in the winter, as it's too cold to go swimming."

My explanation to my toddler about why we've not been able to go swimming since the gym shut, so we don't have to try and explain covid.

Hopefully it will reopen as planned in April when it's warmer and then I'll not be a liar at all