did your parents lie to you as a kid?

Yeah, loads it seems.

My Mum will try it all the time to this day when she wants me to do/believe something...I'm 25!

The worst things they used to do were only small, but really annoyed me. For example; I'm not a fan of spicey food, I can handle mild/medium at best.

When I was young, parents trying to get me to try some sort of fairly spicey curry my mum would give me the old "oh, this is the non spicey one, just try it...". Of course, you believe your parents so I tried it and got a mouth of burn...THANKS.

She still tries it with other things these days but thankfully through years of being subject to it and being a lot wiser I see straight through her :)

Found out within the past few years that when my Rabbit died (I was about 9), I was told he was taken to a local park which is really nice and burried somewhere by my Dad...what REALLY happened was when I was at school, dad chucked it's body in a black binliner and put it out with the trash...great!
 
Knubje said:
Found out within the past few years that when my Rabbit died (I was about 9), I was told he was taken to a local park which is really nice and burried somewhere by my Dad...what REALLY happened was when I was at school, dad chucked it's body in a black binliner and put it out with the trash...great!
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Hey, at least they didn't make it into a pie :p
 
Yes

Santa
Tooth Fairy
etc

Love the lines in here about the ice cream van and the trees, will definitely be using them one day :D
 
Yeah.

All the usual stuff like Santa.



But also threatening to call the Police ( I feared those buggers) if I didn't behalve :p.
 
I'm sure all parents tell their kids little white lies... mine I think were brutally honest on most subjects.

My dad told my sister he'd pay for her wedding, and didn't if that counts? :p
 
I was told when i was younger that if my sister and I misbehaved the air conditioning system would suck us up and chuck us in a bad place. The bad place was never described and always just called a "bad place" leaving out imagination run wild!

"The fans will suck you up!"

We were always good after that!
 
movingtables said:
bit of a random thread.

as a kid (about age 7) if i wouldnt come in from playing out my mum used to say that the "pick up birds" will get you and take you away !

also there was a dog in my neighbourhood and my mum nick named it "the captain" and apparently he took little boys away who where naughty.
to this day ( age 34 ) if i see that brand of dog i think eeek lol.

did anyone here have parents that basicaly made stuff up to get you to do stuff as a kid?

:D
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So basically your parents scared you in to compliance? I approve :D:p

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Your mom reminds me of the guy's dad from "the langoliers" :p
 
Yes. When Brandy, my nan's dog, bit me in the face and left some lovely scars, my parents told me they'd given her to a farmer so she could live on a big farm away from children. Actually she'd been put down.

They didnt tell me until i was 18. I have to admit, i shed a tear for poor Brandy.
 
Santa, that was it.

Ironically one of my work colleagues cannot get her kid to wash his hands and flush the loo, I asked her if she tried some sort of scare tactics...she said she did but no luck.

I can't think of anything...loo monster? I dunno..he's a pretty smart kid he'd try poison it or something. :p
 
Yeap, pretty much same as above, parents lied and still lied. Though the cardinal sin of "no no dear, the ice cream van's ringing because it's run empty!" was never offered.
 
ChrisJSY said:
Santa, that was it.

Ironically one of my work colleagues cannot get her kid to wash his hands and flush the loo, I asked her if she tried some sort of scare tactics...she said she did but no luck.

I can't think of anything...loo monster? I dunno..he's a pretty smart kid he'd try poison it or something. :p
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Petri dish and some agar should do the trick - and it's true too :)
 
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