Top 10 Lies we tell our children

**Chocolate Lips** · 22-10-2008, 10:00pm

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Top ten tales we tell our kids

1. Father Christmas only comes to good little children (84 per cent)

2. Father Christmas only visits children who go to sleep (81 per cent)

3. Sitting too close to the TV makes your eyes go square (60 per cent)

4. Spinach makes you strong (48 per cent)

5. If you cross your eyes, the wind will change and they'll stay there (39 per cent)

6. An apple tree will grown in their tummies if they eat apple pips (27 per cent)

7. If children play with their privates too much, they will drop off (25 per cent)

8. The ice cream van only plays music to let children know it has run out of ice cream (22 per cent)

9. Eating crusts will put hair on your chest (22 per cent)

10.The police arrest children who swear (20 per cent)

**chuckle_monster** · 22-10-2008, 10:03pm

Have always loved the ice cream van one. When we heard the van the other day my friend told my Godson, "Oh, there goes the music van" the poor child thinks this man just drives around playing music for people

***Fallen Angel*** · 22-10-2008, 10:05pm

Number 1 is used with alarmingly frequency in this house atm

**Azana** · 22-10-2008, 10:06pm

I can't believe people still do 3-10!

I do think Father Christmas is a big big lie but feel I have to go along with it.

I do tell my children that the ride on in Morrison's is broken, parks are closing etc etc - but apple pips?!? Seem very out of date porkies I remember being told. I would be thrilled if dd1 was eating an apple and would call it roughage if she swallowed the pips.

**Spuggy** · 23-10-2008, 12:10am

What about my favourite - 'It's broken' when passing any coin-operated ride-on in the supermarket. Although Charlotte is now learning to read, I may be scuppered with that one...

**Jelly** · 23-10-2008, 07:38am

nothing in there about the tooth fairy??? That's a favourite in our house, as the tooth fairy pays depending on how clean and nice the teeth are. She sometimes makes spot checks as well.

**Elle Driver** · 23-10-2008, 07:43am

No 4 is true though no? In a roundabout way?

We also have the 'birthday fairy' Jelly

And I've never ever heard of the ice cream van one!

**Muppetgal** · 23-10-2008, 07:44am

I was told each and every one of those as a child!

**Seagull&Snoopy** · 23-10-2008, 07:52am

We were all told the ice cream one. Imagine the shame when I was out with my sister and some friends about age 25 when I suggested an ice cream and she said we couldn't have one as music was playing and it was empty.

I'd twigged earlier about age 14

but she had gone another 10 years.

We never had ice creams