"Maybe later"
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#LiesParentsTellTheirChildren Technically not a lie. Family vacation, driving back from a moonlight walk along the beach. The girl (age 7) asks if we can get ice cream. My spouse says "I think the ice cream shop is closed."
"Can you check?"
I get my phone out and google; the girl reads out the time as 9:15 PM before I tilt my phone away from her.
"It says they close—um—at ten after nine," I say.
All the adults in the car: "That can't be right."
"No, it's very clear. They close at 10… after 9."

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"I love you" when their actions clearly say otherwise.

#liesparentstelltheirchildren That tooth fairy iou. Still waiting.

#liesparentstelltheirchildren For my 40th, my wife and I went on holiday to Mauritius. We told our then three-and-a-half year-old daughter that we were working in London for the week while she stayed home with her grandparents.

#liesparentstelltheirchildren stories about the night snake meant to cause wee ones to come into the house after dark.

The hashtag #LiesParentsTellTheirChildren is trending. It's our time to shine #ExJW friends.

I'll start. Here's a drawing I did when I was six of a martyr being stoned to death.

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'If you eat that plate empty, the sun will shine tomorrow.'

Honesty is the best policy.

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#liesparentstelltheirchildren I told mine today that their cousin bit their Nan ( which wouldn't have been out of character), where as it was actually her dog, which ended up being put down.

Didn't want to tell them the real reason their favourite dog had died.

#LiesParentsTellTheirChildren That my insides would tie in a knot if I swallowed bubblegum. That my pouted, petulant, pulled face would stay that way if the wind changed direction. And that I would understand the reason and the 'why' when I grew up. Still waiting...

#liesparentstelltheirchildren my family and I went to the movie park and watched a 4D-movie of Shrek. My father said I could not take off the 4D glasses, otherwise I could not continue the movie at all, the movie would stop, just for me. I remember sitting there, scared to look anywhere else but the film xD

#liesparentstelltheirchildren "You'll become more conservative when you're older and actually face the real world."

I went from liberal/social democracy in my teens to full on Marxist-Leninist in my 20s.

#liesparentstelltheirchildren the naivity that if you work hard enough and are honest you'll always do good in your job and have a successful career. Still haunts me today.

"If that boy is mean to you, it means he has a crush on you."

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(No, kids, no! He's not mean to you because he likes you! It's because he's a little jerk!)

#LiesParentsTellTheirChildren That everyone in children's entertainment has a 7pm bedtime too and that's why YouTube doesn't work after that time.

#LiesParentsTellTheirChildren #indian edition
After a mistake: "come here, I won't say anything to you"
"you don't even feel anything while injection/tooth removal, don't worry"
When children are young: "Sleep/eat or otherwise 'buddha baba' (literal translation: old ascetic figure, used in sense of ghost) will come"

#LiesParentsTellTheirChildren (damaged child edition)

"it's ok"
"you'll be fine"
"Jesus loves you"
"I love you"

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I know people want this tag to be all happy, but thinking of the lies my parents told me only fills me with resentment over seeing their generation sell out my future for their own comfort.

#LiesParentsTellTheirChildren

I know people want this tag to be all happy, but thinking of the lies my parents told me only fills me with resentment over seeing their generation sell out my future for their own comfort.