everybody tells a little white lie…
July 16th, 2009but when it comes to lying to children, there are so many guilty culprets… time we had a look to assess the situation me thinks!
http://www.vimeo.com/5623729i’m still getting over the fact that there was still ice-cream! 
have an awesome week!
xox
July 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
You’re so beautiful, and witty and intelligent. Surely every man’s dream girl?
July 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
“If you go out dressed like that, you’ll catch a cold” Your mother obviously didn’t feel the need to say that to you Mel, what with your woolly chest! Small fault in a good woman!
Kieran
A cold is a virus as I’m sure you’re aware and bears little relation to the state of the weather.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I’ve been told that sneezing with your eyes open will result in your eyeballs popping out of your head (something to do with pressure). I’m not convinced…….nor am I willing to prove it!
July 16th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
When I was a little lad, my aunty had a Piano, and when any of my relatives didn’t want me to “make music”, they described the piano as “to hot to play” and performing the touch test “Ouch, ues too hot”!!
July 16th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
There is of course another lie that some parents tell their teenage boys (not me I hassen to add).
“You’ll go Blind”
Enough said on that subject
July 16th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I’m sure all the guys have heard this one!! “Don’t touch IT too much or IT will fall off”!! Tried this one out and IT has not fallen off!! I did have help also…. Too much?!?! Great randomness!! Thanks Mel!!
July 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Mark – Thankyou, you’re super kind.
Keiran – I forgot. I got that one also. I did once wear out the tiniest skirt and came down with flu the very next day which will teach me for not listening.
Mark – OMG I forgot that one! I tried it but my eyes closed. What’s a girl to do?
Chris – That is too cute!!! The piano that is, not going blind!
Clint – Hahahahaha. That is all that I have to say!
July 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Maybe the bread crust one is a regional thing. Around here the saying goes; if you eat your crusts it will make your hair curly.
I have curly hair. It’s the bane of my life. Subsequently, “you can keep your pigging crusts” is my usual answer. Moreover, they taste god awful on 99% of bread.
Great video, Mel. Happy Thursday
July 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
LOL… loved it!!! That was tooo cute!
Ok… I’m trying to think back at some of little white lies we were told as children… hmmm:
1). Our father (we were 2 girls) told us that if we walked on our tip toes vs the palms of our feet, we would have beautiful legs when we got older… ???
*Truth of the matter… our mother was sort of flat-footed and a very heavy walker, and dad didn’t want us to walk heavy footed (stomp) throughout the house…
) Although, I will say that my sis and I do have great legs (we are in in our 40′s now–and they still look GOO! –so perhaps it helped 
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2). If we lied, our teeth will fall out…. ??? (told a trillion lies—still have all my natural teeth — shhh… maybe it’s still coming… yikes!)
*(that one gave me night mares for years… LOL, and if that was a fact, my dad would definitely have dentures by now… LOL)
3). The worst one was that my dad told us that there was a witch that lived in the basement and if we didn’t eat all of our food, she knew, and would come upstairs to eat us. He went so far as to make her eerie knock on the basement door… and pretend that he was struggling to hold the door closed to keep her from getting in until we hurried up and finished our food…
*Traumatizing!!! Later in life, my sis and I had to go down there to do laundry, we were so terrified by the thought of going in the basement…we would startle at any noise–run upstairs screaming and get in trouble from our mother…!
4). Eating a lot of carrots will make us able to see in the dark ??? Hmmm… never worked… I guess I’m half blind from sitting too close to the TV all those years…
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5). “If you tell me, I Promise I won’t get mad” LMAO!!! …WHAT A CROCK!!!!!!!!!!!
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We also heard the hair on the chest fib, or grow big and strong (as girls… like we really wanted that–LOL!); and the if you cross your eyes, they will stick like that…
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I’m thinking, as soon as I post this comment.. another 3 REALLY GOOD ones will surface from the annals of my mind!! ha ha …
Thanks Mel, that was really fun reminiscing–this post really kind of made my day 2day… smiling ear to ear right now…=)))!! (Maybe when I get another moment—I will post the ones I tell (and have told) my kids)
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HUGS!,
Paris E.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
The tiniest of skirt eh… Shameless English girl.. My (Irish) Dad wasn’t lying to me about some things then!
What about the biggest lie of all?? A fat drunken bloke in a red suit is going to climb down our chimney tonight with a bicycle, a scalextric, a wendy-house and a surprise! He can’t stay long though… cos he has to deliver Christmas presents to all children in the whole world …tonight…
Oh and he’ll achieve this with the help of a flying reindeer!
K
July 16th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Well the one that always got me was “Don’t swallow that gum – it will stay in your stomach for seven years”… that gave me 2555 sleepness nights! was I going to be sick? would I live? would wrigley’s offer me a sponsorship deal?..
seriously though, it took me years to work out it was a lie…
July 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Dan – lol, that’s too funny.
Paris – oh my, you’ve just brought back a load of memories. Would love to know the fibs you tell YOUR kids. Does it change with a generation?
Keiran – cheeky! I don’t understand what you’re trying to get at with Santa – he does manage all of that stuff!
Chris – that’s a lie? I seriously thought it was true!
July 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
The rigmarole of the tooth fairy[√], curly hair, crusts yada[√], gum 7yr stomach thing [√] and last of all the fat geezer from lapland driving a floating reindeer train who arrives via the chimney[Wowzer[√]](+1 Paris)
July 16th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I was always told that if I swallowed seeds, they would take root and a tree would grow inside of me. One day I was eating an orange and accidentally swallowed a few seeds. I was frantically scared scared that a tree would grow inside of me or worse, that I would grow roots where I stood and not be able to move again. My parents finally told me the truth when I went crying to them all worried about it.
Now, my grandma always said that if I came from playing outside and stood in front of the fridge, or drank cold water for that matter, I would die. I’ve done it all my life and I’m still alive. *crosses fingers
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My grandparents also said that if I ate and showered right after or went into a pool or the beach, my body would lock up and I would never be able to move again. I remember having to wait 3 hour after eating before being able to go back into the beach. Now I do it all the time.
I guess parents and grandparents just enjoy scaring kids. I wonder if I’ll ever do that when I have children?
July 17th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I can’t seem to remember any particularly amusing or deceptive lies from my parents, but I’m definitely going to try a couple of the ones from this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Lies-Tell-Small-Kids/dp/0340834056/
July 17th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Robin – I just so happen to love that fat geezer who has a floating reindeer train!
Hanly – I forgot about the swallowing seeds one. Although that could explain ‘Tree Man’ – oh god that was bad taste wasn’t it?
Geoff – Even though I’m not a parent, I want to read that book now