i just found this on yahoo news page, survery into
The top 10 white lies:
1. Father Christmas
2. The Tooth Fairy
3. Crusts make your hair curl
4. Carrots make you see in the dark
5. If the wind changes, your face will stay like that
6. Easter Bunny
7. Babies are found under gooseberry bushes (or similar)
8. If you eat apple pips, they'll grow in your tummy
9. Picking your nose causes your head to cave in/your brain to fall out/your nose to fall off
10. Lying does something unpleasant to your tongue (spots, ulcers, it will drop off)
lol, where you told any of these as a kid? i find myself telling my daughter and the kids at the school i help in similar things!
2006-11-23 03:16:49 · 19 answers · asked by sinnedfairy 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I tell them loads of white lies - mainly because they always believe me. I used to tell them that a monkey lived in the dishwasher and when the door was closed it jumped out and licked the plates clean - they believed that one for years!
2006-11-23 03:21:28 · answer #1 · answered by Ally 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Although parents tell their kids these things, it is very often tongue-in-the-cheek, isn't it? At least it is for the kid! I knew it was just fun when my Mum told me a mouse would put sixpence under my pillow for a lost tooth, or that Santa would bring me a pressie only if I'd been good. Like fairy tales and nursery rhymes, just fun.
Kids are smart. It makes things more of a game for them, they don't need to believe it and most never do. They get at the real answers through their own grapevines.
Not a problem!
The only time that kind of lie bothered me was in primary school, when a religiously fanatical teacher told all of us 5 and 6 year olds to never forget to sleep with our arms crossed over our chests, every night. Otherwise we wouldn't go to Heaven if we died that night. That upset me so much I developed insomnia!
2006-11-23 11:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by kiteeze 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was told all of those by my mom and used to worry myself stupid every time I ate an apple in case I swallowed a pip, thing is I find myself telling the same things to my nephews too.
2006-11-23 11:43:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest white told to kids is ;
"I've got eyes at the back of my head".
I never believed it even though i did believe in Santa and i loved it when i would wake up on Christmas morning and the mince pies my mum would leave out had been eaten.
2006-11-23 13:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by bluenose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I was told alot of those. I can't believe the 'Rover's gone to the farm' is on there. The carrots one has some truth actually. They're rich in vitimin A & D which is directly related to sight.
2006-11-23 11:20:04 · answer #5 · answered by Alana B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, thanx for the laughs, I heard of the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, your face will stay that way, the Stork brings babies, eating Watermelon seeds will make you grow a watermelon in your stomache. Thanx for the memories. :)
2006-11-23 11:26:17 · answer #6 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the guy on the radio said this morning, it's not lying as such - it's stimulating the child's sense of fantasy and imagination, or preserving their innocence, or teaching them to obey social convention.
Lying is when you say "If you tell anybody about this then your puppy will die".
2006-11-23 11:22:43 · answer #7 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watching TV will give you square eyes. My nan used to say the ice cream van plays the tune when it's run out of ice cream.
2006-11-23 11:21:53 · answer #8 · answered by georgeygirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Preserve childhood. Children grow up soon enough.
2006-11-23 11:19:46 · answer #9 · answered by Scotty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they'll realise it's not true when they grow up. Let's not expose them to the harshness of reality yet
2006-11-23 11:21:12 · answer #10 · answered by what's up 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋