"Parents lie to children" shocker!

[vernon]

We go by the power station at Ratcliffe on soar quite often, my son has falen fot my cloud factory explaination hook, line and sinker!
My other half told his kids that apple cores exploded if you chucked them out of a car window when travelling.

A cruel teacher of my acquaintance told a gullible student of his that power stations were cloud factories, that wind farms were giant fans to make the clouds move and that the Humber Bridge joined us to France.

It wasn't me by the way.

 

[Sara_H]

A cruel teacher of my acquaintance told a gullible student of his that power stations were cloud factories, that wind farms were giant fans to make the clouds move and that the Humber Bridge joined us to France.

It wasn't me by the way.

My Dad told me that thunder was clouds bumping together in the sky. Unfortunately I misheard him and had scary visions of giant, angry clowns bumping each other whenever it thundered!

 

[Silver Fox]

It's funny how things stick in your mind from a very young age. I was 5 years old and had just started school, the equivalent of today's reception class and was not a happy bunny getting myself in a right old tizzy.

The next day my mum and dad came into the school and took me to my desk. My dad explained that he had sat at the very same desk when he was my age. When I was older he told me that was not true but at the time it somehow comforted me to think I was sitting at my dad's desk.

 

[Arch]

When my nephew Oli was 2 or 3, he had a moania for clocks, and my Mum, if she went anywhere for a day out, would find a postcard with a clock on to send him. One time, she was at a stately home, and there was a postcard featuring a huge big mantle clock, very roccoco and decorative, with a sort of miniature Greek temple/building affair on the top. Mum being Mum, she wrote tongue in cheek on the back that this clock seemed to have a small power station on top.

My sister showed Oli the card when it arrived and read it to him. When his Dad got home, he saw the card and made some remark about the clock having a temple on top, and Oli said "No Daddy, it's a power station, Grandma said so!"

When my sister was first pregnant, I sent her Andy Riley's Great Lies to Tell Small Kids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lies_to_Tell_Small_Kids

Our favourite is "Wine makes Mummy clever".

 

[Psycolist]

The BBC have found that most parents lie to their children.

What a surprise! Perhaps the next step of the PC brigade will be to call for a stop to this outrageous practice. So when little Johnny or Susan asks where babies come from, be prepared to answer some more questions. And Santa Claus will be a thing of the past too.

Surely then, ALL parents lie to their children at some point, for their childrens sake?

Whats even more shockin IMHO, is that this practice is rife in the extended family. brothers lie to sisters 'of course mummy wont mind if I cut your hair' uncles lie to aunts 'of course you were my first' grandparents lie to grandchildren 'your mummy wouldnt have ever done that' and so on and so forth. As for middle aged children talking to thier aged parents, dont even go there

 

[tomahawk]

Don't pull a face in shock when you read this thread because if you do, and the wind changes, then it'll stick like that. That's what I was told anyway...