Comments | mrserin: Little White Lies

mrserin

Little White Lies

Jul 17, 2008 12:46

This morning I stumbled across this:
14 lies to stop telling your children

I thought it was going to be serious parenting advice, but it's actually quite funny! There are some interesting points hidden in there about the things we say to our kids without even thinking though.

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katzchen24 July 17 2008, 08:31:53 UTC

he he he I'm not a parent but I can enjoy the humour! Did you follow the link to see the bit about the 26 scariest childrens movies or whatever it was? *giggle* It was very funny...... How do you find this stuff???

mrserin July 17 2008, 12:32:45 UTC

No, I didn't read that one!! Will go find it now. I did read the 5 toys that should be illegal, that was scary too!

I found it because another blog I read links to interesting parenting things around the web each week.

path124 July 17 2008, 08:42:05 UTC

LOL - that was funny!

The other week one of the dads at school was telling his son if he didn't behave today at school he'd go see Mrs E, who is the acting director of Kurrajong ELC - Yr 2 and this is in T's class so the kid is 5. Anyhow, he walked out of the room, saying "remember, you don't want to go visit Mrs E, do you". I laughed and looked at the class teacher and I said "well, lets hope AC never gets Mrs E for a class teacher. She looked at me and said "I am always telling parents to not say things like Behave or Mrs G will get cross at you", she being Mrs G. She says she really doesn't like it when the kids are scared of her...it makes it hard to teach them.

I've never said anything like this to either of my kids, but it seems to be an easy cop out that parents say.

Really though, do kids look at the whole Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy thing in THAT much detail - breaking into your house, being 7 foot etc. NO they just think wow....it's this occasion....I'm bound to get something out of it - LOL!

mrserin July 17 2008, 12:41:00 UTC

You reminded me that my uncle used to say to his sons that if they didn't behave Aunty J or Uncle G would get angry. My parents would get so annoyed about it - such a cop out. Totally agree there.

LOL at "I'm bound to get something out of it."