Parents lie to their kids all the time. There is not a single parent who could say no to this. But can we blame them? The good part is that these lies are so weird that they become funny!
Little ones have the tendency to ask questions to their parents until their breaking point. Tired of answering all the questions of their children, they start telling complete nonsense to their kids. Kids, on the other hand, believe in all of that, until, they grow up and realize the truth themselves.
Parents have many excuses to lie to their children. If the child is asking too many questions or they don’t know the answer to the question or they are too lazy to explain the actual answer. We have researched and shortlisted the most popular lies that parents tell their kids.
Here’s the list of all the ridiculous lies that parents tell their child:
#1. ‘Your Eyesight Will Be Damaged If You Sit Too Close To The T.V.’
This is not at all true. Well, we cannot blame parents for it entirely, with all the rays falling into the child’s eye through mobile, computers, laptop, etc.
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#2. ‘If You Swallow A Gum, It Will Remain In Your Stomach For Seven Years.’
Seriously? Cut some slack for your child and stop telling such foolish lies to them. I mean what if they believe it?
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#3. ‘Drinking Coffee Will Restrict Your Growth.’
Only in your imaginative world parents! These things make no sense. Although many think that caffeine should not be given to the child, it certainly has no effect on the child’s growth.
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#4. ‘You Cannot Go To The Pool For 30 Minutes. We Have Just Had Our Dinner.’
Having food before going for a swim has no effect on your body. In fact, instead of stopping your child, take out your swimming costume and accompany them!
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#5. ‘Don’t Swallow The Seeds Or Else Trees Will Grow Inside Your Stomach.’
You parents have loads of crap to tell your little ones. Well, we can’t judge, after all, you have to spend all the time with your child, so you must know the perfect way to handle them. But still, parents have gone a little too far with this one.
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#6. ‘If You Make A Weird Face For A Long Time, You Will Get Stuck Like That Forever!
This is probably the most popular lie of all time. I wonder who was the first parent to think of a lie as creative as this one. Perhaps the parent of the most stubborn child!
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#7. ‘Not Closing Your Eyes While Sneezing Will Make Them Pop Out.’
An absolute lie! Sneeze all you want with open eyes, and nothing will happen!(although, you might have caught a cold).
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#8. If You Crack Your Knuckles, You Will Have Arthritis.’
The noise of the knuckle cracking might be too annoying, and that is why parents lie to their little ones about it. But all in all, it is a lie (until the cracks start to hurt).
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#9. ‘Every Grain Of Rice Left In The Bowl Is A Year Of Bad Luck.’
Not wasting food is one thing and making your child terrified about leaving just a few grains of rice is another thing. It is a pure and white lie!
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#10. ‘If Two People Really Love Each Other, A Beautiful Baby Is Born.’
There are other reasons also like if two people are drunk, or if the condom breaks or when daddy does not take a vasectomy, and more. But, you can’t tell this to your kid, right?
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#11. ‘ We were…wrestling.’
When your child finds daddy and mommy above each other, this is probably the safest thing to say. We hope your child doesn’t want to participate.
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Is the list missing any lie? If yes, then feel free to share it with us in the comment box below.
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Oh My God! This is my reaction to the lies told by parents to me when I was a kid and the realization of the level of lie in today's scenario. They are so cute and funny that you can't really argue with your parents for them because, we all know that we won't be able to hold our laugh during the fight.
But let me tell you, we might curse our parents for telling us absolutely weird lies but when we look at it from the parents point of view we come to know that they were quite helpful for us as we can't explain every little thing to them and they will also not be able to understand then, what can be the best possible outcome for it? A Big fat nonsense LIE and volla! You have managed to escape all the trouble that the kid was about to give you.
Also at that age children are curious about every little thing and solving each of their queries become difficult to tackle. Therefore, it is recommended from parents of each and every generation to go ahead and lie to your kid about all the things that are embarassing, weird or require a lot of explanation. Let their teachers do their job after some years.
this one's a funny read because each one of has heard one or the other of these lies. as a kid i came across the " swolling seeds will grow trees in your belly" the most. I have always been a clumsy kid, doing the very opposite of whats expected of me. i have probably swollen a hundred seeds and a number of chewing gums but never had the fortune of letting trees grow through me.
Firstly, no one swallows a seed on purpose. It is accidental and as kids, we are very vulnerable and take whatever our parents say is the truth. They being responsible adults should really think before making up such crap. We kids believe all this nonsense and then live in fear of a tree shooting out from our stomach. Handling kids is hard but making horrific lies should have its limits.