Bit worrying - Ds has been fabricating his 'News'!!! Does yours do this?

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It's hilarious really...went for PT consultation yesterday, and got presented with his books to have a look through afterwards.

Literacy book was a revelation. He's done some great pictures but the stories are mainly completely untrue!!

it's meant to be 'news' and I think he must feel his life is so dull, he has to just make it up

First of all I had a little double take at 'Our car blew up' though it was a lovely pic of our nice car.

Then it was 'We went to the Christmas fair (Like hell we did) and there was a big wheel (yes, ahem) and giant hamsters. Although he tells me it was meant to say 'hammers'- even more

He had drawn giant orange things next to a diminutive ferris wheel...obviously..

He gets comments like 'how lovely' and 'very good work' but I am feeling it is a matter of time before he gives them something like 'mummy's boyfriend makes me eat soap' or some such monstrous untruth.

Anyone else?

My ds does it all the time. I suppose I should be pleased that he has such an active imagination but frankly most of the time it is just downright embarrassing. I always wonder what the other children go home and tell their parents about ds's excursions (or permanent tv watching).

He drew a lovely picture of our caravan holiday and spoke in such detail that it was mentioned to me at our last parents' evening:-

Teacher: 'Ds told us all about the lovely caravan holiday you had.'
Me: 'We've never been on a caravan holiday'
TA: 'Well maybe it was more of a camper van than a caravan.'
Me: 'We don't have a caravan or a camper van or anything remotely similar'. [Guessing what ds was up to] Has ds told you about his invisible family?
Teacher and TA'No.'

Later that day I quizzed ds and of course he had been on holiday with his invisible family. Teacher and TA seemed genuinely surprised. I was impressed by the story he'd written and the picture.

He does something like this every week without fail. We have parents' evening next week and I'm dreading looking at his latest news book!

My BIL used to get into trouble for writing things like "played golf with Morecambe and Wise". Except that he was telling the literal truth; his granddad was an actor so knew lots of celebrities.

I had parent's evening earlier this week and my dd's had done quite a lot in half term, had been down the stables to see my sister's horse, taken the dog on nice long walks and been to the park a couple of times so I was surprised to see that dd2's news was that she had been shopping to Iceland with Daddy.

My DS told the dinner lady that his mummy was dead, killed by the woodsman with an axe, and that he lived with his dad and 'other brother' in a cottage.
I was called in for a private chat with his teacher. DS, who was 5 at the time, had been sent to the headmaster's office for lying, and teacher was quite concerned!

I wish ds did this, or at least told the truth. He hates writing with a vengeance so 'plays computer games' EVERY weekend.

For some reason I always feel the need to explain to his teacher that actually he doesn't and we do educational constructive family things quite often at the weekend

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Until I put her straight very recently, my DS's teacher was under the impression that his best friend - who he's been in the same class with for the past 4 years - was his cousin

My little brother used to come home with stories about how kids had gotten balls stuck on the roof and how he'd gotten them down by flying up there

Oh YES the fibbing news - it's so lovely. Budding novelists - be proud.

I think I remember writing that my Pa (who would not have dreamt of this) would lie on the sofa watching football and drinking beer.

Also that when we went on holiday to Mull we went down a fairy shoot [what playground slides used to be called in Scotland] to get there. That particular entry, for some reason, ended with a couple of lines-full of "Yes we did. We did. Yes. We did that." I am still a RUBBISH liar.

My ds1 was fantastic for this when he was younger.

Apparently one weekend we went swimming (actually we did) and his sister drowned in the deep end and the lifeguard had to drain the pool Now that didn't happen!

Just about every entry ended with then we went home and I wasn't tired so I stayed awake all night. Untrue!

Loving nickchick's "house" and Bink's very convincing lies!

The news book is the one I always approach with trepidation at parent consultation.

DS writes "I played with my toys" every week, his teacher thinks its because he knows how to spell it all and can do a good picture.

Quite often he would say "I played on my DS" when we had stayed at friends for a party, gone out to lunch then gone for a walk

Could be worse though as I heard about one child in DS1s class who wrote "Mummy shouted at Daddy because he came home very drunk, then he was sick"

I get the impression the teachers take it all with a pinch of salt though.

When I was 6 I must have been telling some porkies as my teacher said to my Mum "If you don't believe half the things she tells you about school, then I won't believe half the things she says about home!"

I am a teacher now myself, and I do laugh sometimes at some of the things the children come out with.

loving this, especially Bink!

I think they all do it. When DH was at school he told the teacher that his dad was black and was in the army, the teacher asked him if his dad would like to come in to talk about the army, Dh had to tell the teacher that his dad was actualy a JCB driver at the local tip .

I can remember writing every monday that i had been to the zoo at the weekend when really i had been to DIY shops with my dad.

I always wrote in my news book that we had been to the zoo (we never did), but I liked drawing pictures of all the animals

My son's NEWS was always a version of -

I went to the park with Daddy.
I went to the swimming with Daddy.
I played a game with Daddy.
I went to Tesco with Daddy.
I walked the dog with Daddy......

I am sure you all get the picture - problem was that I was ALWAYS with DS and Daddy at the park/shop/swimming - but he never ever mentioned me. I am a bit to admit that I was slightly tearful and worried about what it all said about my relationship with DS. Poor teacher tried to make me feel better by saying that my DS obviously saw my prescence as a 'given' but felt the need to mention Daddy as quite often Daddy missed out on activites due to working.

O love the news books, its the ones I will keep.

One I remember is "Last night we went to China for dinner and used chopsticks"

My friend's daughter wrote her daddy's name was Tom (because it was easy to spell)

I have just looked out my 'news' books from 1975/6 (my mum kept a lot of stuff). I was such a boring child! and not as good at spelling as I have been telling the DS's! Amongst the interesting facts i have gleamed are the facts that i didn't get the stabilsers off my bike 'til i was 7 and a half (which is the same as Ds2 and I thought he was very late ). Most of the entries are along the lines of " I have a new hat", I have a little oxlord dictionary!, i am not going to school dinners. I got excited thinking I had found evidence of fantasy when I read an entry that said "I was at Iran for the weekend" but then i looked closely at the drawing which vaguely resembles a seagull flying over some mountains and realised that i meant Arran! Seventies childhoods were very dull.

These are great. Ones I've read include

• Mummy locking herself out, but it being ok because you can get into the house easily through the coal cellar.
• Mummy's 'friend' coming round to visit (That page was torn out before it could be seen by their DH)
• The dog died (but also managed to walk child to school that morning)

And a truthful one - 'My castle ...' It took me a while to realise that they did actually live in a castle!

As a reception teacher I loved weekend news. My favourite ever budding novelist had such a great imagination, not only would he tell me that he went to America for the weekend but he would then go on to say that when he was there he tried to cross a river but an alligator bit his foot off but luckily they managed to sew it back on as good as new!!

The best bit of this was we would read his stories out to the class who were so impressed and they really began to look forward to his 'news', that they grew a new found respect for this child who previously they had considered to be a bit naughty. He wasn't but he had needed a lot of reminding to sit and listen well at the beginning due to being a very young child. Another child always finished her news with and then we had a nice cup of tea. Always.

I can remember writing out the story of "The Little Red Hen" in my news book at primary school!

My dad remarried when I was 8 - my brither and I went to Gretna Green for half term week them for the wedding and a sort of honrymoon/holiday.
I remember having a great time but I spent our news writing time for at least the next half term writing EVERY detail - the drive up there from Hampshire took at least two weeks to write about! It must have bored my teacher stupid!!

I was helping out on a school trip the other week and dd's teacher asked me about dd's older brother, Barker (WTF?) who goes to a different school. It was so embarrassing to have to say that dd is an only child.

But why the name Barker???