Fibs

 (copied from my Facebook status today)

 

On the radio after I had dropped the girls off at school they were talking about some of the lies/fibs we as parents tell our kids. In whatever poll they were reading from they said the top 3 were;

3-If you don't stop crying, that person over there will be upset with you (never done this one)
2-We will come back and buy it next time for you. (I just always say maybe next time, they have figured... out that means NO)
1-If you don't come with me right now you are going to be left here. (SOOO guilty of this one)

So I am curious, what are some of the "fibs" you have told to your kids?

I think the best one we ever did that had my girls convinced for YEARS of was that when the ice cream truck is playing music that was just to let everyone know they are out of ice cream.

 

•  LOL!! Melissa! You are so funny! I had never thought of that one. :) So clever. :)
   
•  my sister was always threatening to kill her kids. WTH? I used to tell her, Lynn, you've got to threaten them with something REAL that you'll actually do for it to work. She's doing hard time in Sing Sing.

   
•  hahahahaha I never thought of that one about the ice cream truck LOVE IT ! ! ! my age..... Sam still tells everyone I'm 32 - that's why she's my favorite lol
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•  Im guilty of all of them!! Number 2 I only did when they where little hoping they would forget.

   
•  I tell the kids that the ice cream truck is actually a music truck that drives around playing music for people. ;-) Read that one somewhere & started using it. Too bad I hadn't heard that one when the older kids were young enough to believe me.

   
•  I want to know what finally proved you wrong?
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•  Mine was when we would go to K-mart and the horse was outside for a quarter...I would tell the kids he was broke today bad part was when we came out of the store, other kids were riding it so my kids would say, look Mommy, he's working!!! I would say, then go jump on the back!!! :0

   
•  Oh I had my kids convinced for a few year that the ice cream truck sold vegetables. And then the neighbor kids ratted me out.

   

 I LOLed about your ice cream truck lie. I'm so stealing that one!

 

 I keep teasing my children that I'm going to hang them in the tree by their toes. They think it's funny. I'm guilty of #1 as well. It works with a couple of them, as I start to walk away they come running.

 

 We fib to our kids all.the.time. Don't feel guilty either. Ill say "maybe on the way out" when they ask me to buy something knowing ill never buy it. But it shuts them up and then we are happier. But I'm all about making it easy on the dad and I.