Lies we tell our children/siblings (From PostSecret)

[hisno1girl]

(My favorite one is the second one, lol)

[iamgrace]

Love the coffee one. Lol.

[Deleted]

The moon one...

[Jalapeñomel]

The last one is really sweet.


My dad was around when my nephew saw snow for the first time, and he was convinced my dad made It. He'd call my dad and ask him to make more snow regularly. <3

[zoidberg]

My mom did the coffee thing to me, I believed it.

[zoidberg]

Lies my parents told us:

- all little boys are born with horns, and when they were taking my little brother to his baby appointments they were getting his horns filed down and finally removed.

- the tooth fairy was my dad, dressed in his undershirt, tighty-whities, black socks and my sister's pink ballet tutu. (This one my brother believed until he was a teenager, and in fact we could not dissuade him)

There are a ton more, I just can't think of them right this second.

[Deleted]

Aww the moon one 

The weed one is great. I might need to steal that. 

[VeryViolet]

I told my sister she was adopted one night when I was pissed my mom was using me as free babysitting again. I was mean.

My mom told me that pee wee Herman got arrested for running around naked. I was embarrassed and upset when I found out the truth at 17.

[RoxMonster]

The moon one is so sweet.

My grandma told me there was a Pacifier fairy when I was 3 and they wanted me to give up the pacifier. She told me that when the Pacifier fairy thinks little girls are grown up enough, she comes at night and takes their pacifier because they don't need it anymore. And I believed it.

[eb777888]

OMG. I'm seriously tearing up at the last one. Sooo sweet.

[eb777888]

My dad told me they put the bumps on the road so blind people could drive.

[lolc]

When I was little my brother always wanted to stop on the side of the road to pee when we were driving (not because he had to, but because he had some fascination with stopping on the side of the road on the parkway). My dad said he couldn't stop - the wild cows would eat his tires and we'd be stranded if he stopped. We asked him what are wild cows? He said wild cows are those cows you see roaming the fields next to highways/parkways/turnpikes (with no barn in sight). They look harmless but they are wild, and can be extremely aggressive toward vehicles. They'll jump over the fence and attack. They tear the tread right off tires (and he would point to the truck-tire treads in the road as 'evidence'). And they really don't like when people stop their cars on the side of the road. 

He had us going for a little while with that one. lol.

[Deleted]

When I was a kid, my parents convinced me that the topic of euthanasia was actually a highly contested debate about no longer allowing "Youths in Asia." As in, no more kids in Asia. I was devastated about all the kids. Assholes.

My wonderful Dad also convinced us that our 'real' parents were out there and that they were horrible, mean people. He and my Mom had rescued us. So whenever we were bad, he'd grab the phone and say, "yeah, it time for you to come pick them up!" We would hide in the closet for hours. FTR, we were not adopted, but were really good kids most of the time. Ha!

[msgeeksout]

You know the old line of "I brought you into this world I can take you out"? Well my mother said that I had an older brother, Stephen, who didn't listen or behave so she took him out as an example to the rest of us!

FTR I am the oldest, I was born 6 months after my parents wedding and I knew that long before she started this story. But didn't fail to convince me for a bit! The joke has continued to this day.

[sugarbear]

My dad refused to allow digital clocks in the house and would not teach us to tell time. That way, bed time was whenever he got sick of us. I recall a few bedtimes when it was still oddly light outside.

[mcc]

My mother used to tell me that magnets broke the refrigerator because she hated them. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize she was lying--my college roommate broke the news to me.

[VillainV]

My parents told my sister and I that batteries in toys couldn't be replaced, and when they ran out the toy became a "quiet toy."

[lissaholly]

My mom convinced she could do magic. She would tap the big chest freezer in the garage, have us say the magic words. "Abracadabra peanut butter and jelly." Them she would pull out a toy.

It was a clever way to give us a random toy without us begging for a random toy. It was done on her terms ( she would either have enough magic or not) and the promise of future magic would prevent us from begging at the store. She was sneaky too, she would ask for something out of the freezer so we could see the empty state of it right before.

When we were little and got hurt she would give us a special pill, a red hot. We eventually figured it out and got "hurt" a lot.

My dad used to tell his younger sister that they got her from one of the gum ball prize machines. He put his money in and out she came. She just grew to regular size right after coming out. He didn't want her so he tried to stuff her back in but she just didn't fit!

[snickers]

Those are awesome!
The moon one melted my heart, that is so friggin sweet.

[lissaholly]

These are great! I have 2 more.

When we would say we were full at dinner but not eat enough vegetables my mom would check for space. She would poke and prod our tummies gently until she found a spot that wasn''t full, all the while with comments like " yup, there is he meatloaf, the mashed potatoes are here. . ." It would always get us eating more!

I have convinced DD I have eyes on the back of my head that you can't see. I will sneak a look at her turn my head back around and then say" I see you standing on the coffee table" Daisy! Get down!" All the while wih my back to her.

[Yankees21]

These are awesome!

My stepdad would have my stepsister and I do this crazy dance to magically open the garage door. We didn't find out until years later that he hid the opener in his hand to open it.

[mcc]

Aug 18, 2013 13:35:45 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

Aug 18, 2013 12:28:15 GMT -5 mcc said:

My mother used to tell me that magnets broke the refrigerator because she hated them. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize she was lying--my college roommate broke the news to me.

I was amused by this because you didn't learn until college... but does that mean you never went to a friends house growing up and saw magnets on their fridge? 

I did. My mother told me that their fridges would break but that it wasn't nice of children to tell adults these things and to keep my thoughts to myself. I grew up thinking my friends parents were idiots with fridges on the verge of death. My mother went to great lengths to keep magnets away