Fesshole 🧻When my kids were small I used to make up silly stories to wind them up. My son ,now 20, has just told me that he spent years of his childhood in abject terror because I had told him he might die of poisoning if he swallowed too much toothpaste when brushing his teeth.
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@fesshole Don't lie to your children.
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Queen Faun@BoneHouseWasps @fesshole While they might not die from the amount on a toothbrush, swallowing toothpaste can definitely make you seriously ill so I wouldn't call it a lie so much as an exaggeration
cheesemergency@ackthrice @BoneHouseWasps @fesshole yeah, it does say to contact poison control if you swallow more than used for brushing.
@makeitmythic @ackthrice @fesshole it does, yes but you have to wonder why that warning was put on there. I suspect it's likely because of the hysteria over fluoride rather than any actual public health reason. Fluoride is naturally occurring and we don't have such warnings in the UK. Not on my tube, anyway. 😁
However my point was more about lying to your kids in general. It's a bad idea, bordering on cruel. The little idiots will believe just about anything you tell them and they're relying on you to tell them how the world works. People abuse this fact constantly.
@BoneHouseWasps @ackthrice @fesshole idk, itd probably make you sick. i dont agree with lying to anyone as a matter of course, but i also didnt believe everything i was told as a child.
Von Xylofon@BoneHouseWasps @fesshole Do lie to them, actually, but make it so that they can see through it, and make it a challenge for them to call you out on it. They develop the skill to tell when someone's lying to them with an ulterior motive then.
My kid can tell immediately when I'm pulling on their leg, or at least they get suspicious when something doesn't add up.