101 white lies you tell your children or were told???

[Mancblue]

1. When you hear the icecream mans tune, it means he's ran out of icecream.
2. If you leave food in your bedroom, you'll get rats in your room.
3. (If pulling a funny face) If the wind changes you'll face will stay that way.

[Merry]

If you don`t go to sleep the `ten o`clock horses` will come for you.

[2steps]

I used to get told 'if you pick your nose, your brains will fall out'

[den_the_cat]

there's a great book called great lies to tell small kids by the guy who did Bunny SUicides. I can't remember what any of them were (although the ice cream one is in there I think) but I remember us cracking up last Christmas.

ooh - but my brother did tell me if I fiddled with my belly button my bum would fall off. Scared me for years.

[shiney]

My grandad told me that when he was a little girl, he bit his elbow and turned into a boy!

I used to spend lots of time in his garden, trying as hard as I could to bite my elbow.

[Freediver]

Here's an odd one: We have these cylindric dome shaped glass recycling stations with "portholes", so I told my niece they where stranded flying saucers which had run out of fuel, and they where collecting bottles and jars so they could sell them to purchase more fuel.

[Shirley]

If you eat your crusts your hair will turn curly

[hedgewizard]

Airplanes eat bananas, but they have to be mashed up and pumped up those little pipes you see on the runway (son #1 believed that until 8yo)

Gas storage tanks seen on the horizon are for storing baked beans for the local population (same child, same age)

Daddy has a beard because you're refusing to use the potty - use the potty and the beard will fall off (son #2, and I'll shave it off when he does)

[Andy Hamilton]

My Grandparents used to live in South London quite close to wimbledon common. Whenever we drove past my parents would say look there is a Womble, oh you must have missed him.

The thing was once I did actually see a womble.

[2steps]

I don't tell my children these things but my mum used to say loads of them to us...

don't pick your nose, your brains will fall out
if the wind changes, your face will stay like that
remember father christmas is watching so you better be good
don't eat apple pip or trees will grow in your belly
if you don't wash your ear potatoes will be growing in there

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

My family went on a day out to Brecon and we visited the museum of the regiment who fought in South Africa against the Zulus, there was a lot of Zulu items, shields weapons etc and I was entralled, however my Dad had me convinced that the Zulus came over to South Wales to fight, that was why there was so much stuff Fortunately for the gulliable 6 year old that I was the film was on a few weeks later and I was able to get the facts !

[Andy Hamilton]

This thread has reminded me of an unfortunate accidental loose mouth. I was walking and talking with a mate across a park in Northampton and during the conversation I said, "you know it is that same feeling as when you first find out Father Christmas does not exisit". - I turned around to see a little boy no more than 7 or 8 years old looking up at me his lip starting wobble and his eyes watering.

[shiney]

Andy, you bad, bad man!

I still believed in him until you wrote that.

[den_the_cat]

I still do.

Andy's clearly a bad boy and just doesn't get presents. Santa comes to the rest of us....

[PurpleDragon]

My son is quite a light sleeper, especially if he is looking forward to something, so I have told him that the Tooth Fairy doesn't want to get her wings crushed by rootling around under his pillow and that she had asked me if he would be good enough to leave his tooth in a wee pot on his nightstand.