Parents are the most awesome people we know since the day we born
till the day we die. Because they know every single bit about us and
know what’s best for us at all times. According to a survey, parents
tell their children white (harmless) lies to protect them from harm, or
to make their kids happy or to protect their child’s innocence. But some
lies are just told to get themselves (parents) from getting into
certain difficulties. SmashingLists provides a list of top 10 lies which
are told to the kids by their parents, and some of them might be very
familiar to almost all the readers.
10. Eat Your Vegetables
Eat your vegetables, if you want to be big and strong like a hulk.
This lie has been told to almost every kid. Parents tell all sorts of
stories and mumbo jumbos to get their kids to eat vegetables, fruits and
nutritious stuff that kids do not want to eat due to their taste. The
most common and classic statement was and still is about eating spinach
(or other vegetable), if you don’t eat it you are never going to be
strong and big. Whereas in reality vegetables can only go so far,
however genetics play a huge role in how big or strong a kid is really
going to be. Luckily the kids don’t know this, or nobody might be able
to get them to eat any healthy foods.
9. Ice cream van
Remember when the ice-cream man used to visit your area and had put
on a rather “permanently stuck in head” kind of song, what did your mom
use to say to you? You know when he puts on that song it means he
doesn’t have any ice cream left. And some parents tell their children
that the ice cream man is really a “Kidnapper”, who will kidnap the
children and take them away. Now I don’t know why parents tell this
specific lie to their children, I mean what harm can an ice-cream do?
You may have to spend a few extra bucks but it’s going to bring smile to
your kid’s face.
8. Stop making faces or…
Many children have the urge of making faces to other kids or people
just to annoy them, but this gives so much pleasure to the kid who is
making faces. Such children are then told a white lie that if they keep
on making faces like that, God will make their faces permanently like
that. This eventually stops majority of the kids from doing so. This lie
however is a generally accepted one since manners are the basic
principles to teach your child and making faces, even though is fun for
the kid, isn’t so much fun for anybody else.
7.”I know everything”
After a parent says the above mentioned line to their kids, it results
in two of the possible ways. One is that the kid would think of his/her
parent as a “Super Hero”, who knows and can do everything more precisely
anything, which would eventually make him/her proud. Whereas the other
reaction which can take place is that he will start to think of his
parent as a weirdo or something because he will have the image that his
parent is a sore loser because a single person can’t know everything.
Well the child cannot be blamed if his maturity is limited. A parent
should consult some other means in those matters of which they don’t
know anything about.
6. How was I born?
The type of the children generally known as “The Curious Kids” always
ask questions and mostly really silly and stupid ones, but they can’t
handle it because of their young/pre-mature age. Their questions start
with Who, What, Why, When but never really end. Mostly I have seen kids
asking their parents, “Mommy/Daddy, where do babies come from?” or, even
more difficult question, “Where did I come from?”, now parents choose
to answer these types of questions in a variety of ways. The
straightforward, honest answers would probably be the best but one might
not be mature enough to understand what it really is, that is why many
parents rely on lies and legends to explain this phenomenon to their
child. The most common answers given are according to the age of the
child, some parents tell them that “you were brought to us by a stork”
or “your mommy went to the hospital and brought you home”. If the age of
the child is more than a toddler he/she might not buy the idea of a
stork, but I’m sure that there are other ways to answer these kinds of
questions before the kids learn the reality.
Source : http://www.smashinglists.com/
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