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.
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.