Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, "eating carrots will make you see in the dark," "TV will rot your brain," "we're almost there" – parents say all sorts of untruths to their kids! Perhaps it's for protection, to make things more understandable, or to keep the magic and fantasy alive.
Sometimes though, it's not all that jolly – so here are a few tales about the worst lies people ever caught their parents telling!
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#21
That’s normal sibling rivalry.
No it wasn’t normal. You guys just didn’t want to deal with s**t and the s**t you caused by setting up a situation where you pitted my older sibling against me and then punished me when I fought back.
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49points
#22
....This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you....yeah, right.
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47points
#23
They told me if I was lying there would be bubbles on my tongue. So when they asked me something and they thought I was lying they'd tell me to stick out my tongue. If I knew I was telling the truth, I'd open my mouth confidently and show off my bubble-free tongue. If I was lying, I'd try to scrape the bubbles off with my teeth.
I now use it on my son. Still works.
45points
#24
That kids in africa are dying if i don’t eat my whole plate
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44points
#25
My mom tried to tell my daughter, at my dinner table infront of my husband and I, that I had wanted to get married in her backyard. This was an attempt to validate her taking over my wedding (and ruining it for me) and to 'back me into a corner and agree with her.' Hubs and I shut that down real f*****g fast.
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41points
#26
Up until I was 8 years old, they told me that daddy was away at college. We would go see him on weekends. Found out later that he was in prison. I wondered why we could only talk to him behind glass on a telephone...
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40points
#27
When i was 4 We had a dog called Tilly, my mom said that she gave her away to a boy who couldn't speak and she died while saving him from drowning in a river
Years later when i was around 13, my mom was on the phone to her friends and they were talking about their pets that passed away, turns out that tilly died because my mom was drunk and let her out the house, she ended up getting hit by a car
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39points
#28
That we (4 kids) would inherit about $9k each when our grandmother passed. There was some loophole my dad exploited (he said with his mother’s blessing) where he got all of the money (almost $40k, on top of whatever she gave him otherwise) and that giving it to us was a lie just so he didn’t have to pay taxes on it. At that point, why even tell us? I don’t think he really was meant to take that money.
I’d still be salty about it BUT he did pay for the first couple years of college for all of us (and my one brother’s entire Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers), so I guess it doesn’t matter in the long run. Still, s****y lies were told.
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38points
#29
They lied to me about my dog going to school, but it turns out he's dead😔
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36points
#30
My dad told me that every pickle you eat adds 5 minutes on your life. I was like 5 and damn did I ever take that to heart.
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35points
#31
The whole story about Sinterklaas (the Dutch equivalent of Santa)
When I was 8yo I was devastated when they confirmed my suspicions he doesn't really exist. Not so much because of the fact he isn't real (I had figured that out on my own) but because they had lied to me!
When I was 8yo I was devastated when they confirmed my suspicions he doesn't really exist. Not so much because of the fact he isn't real (I had figured that out on my own) but because they had lied to me!
For years I couldn't believe how parents can justify it to themselves to blatantly lie to their own children and promised myself I would never do that!
But then my daughter was born and I happily told her the same 'lies'.
Oh the hypocrisy 😆
But then my daughter was born and I happily told her the same 'lies'.
Oh the hypocrisy 😆
35points
#32
My dad went into the ER with stroke-like symptoms. He ended up having a severe brain bleed that required immediate and major surgery. While he was laying in the ICU, my mother, who opened their computer to get insurance info, found messages on his linked in page, that he’d left open earlier that morning before I took him to the ER, from a woman he was engaged to in college. They had been having an affair for over a year.
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33points
#33
When my sibling and I were young, we were tossing toys around that the Easter Bunny had left for us. My mom started yelling at us, “I did not buy those for you to treat them like that.”
31points
#37
More of an omission: I was shooting the s**t with my grandmother, I can’t remember what she was talking about but she related it to my mother’s fight with breast cancer the year prior……..what fight with breast cancer?!?! I just nodded like I was in the loop. I guess it makes sense why I’m so reluctant to open up to people, look who built me lol
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23points
