Desperate times call for desperate measures and nobody knows than a parent of a toddler heading for a meltdown. That’s when we’re willing to try just about anything to stop the tantrum, even if it’s saying something that’s not completely true. Molly Brandt, the mom of a two-year-old, recently asked parents to admit their “most unhinged white lie you’ve told your two-and-a-half year-old because I’m running out of ideas” in a TikTok video.
Brandt also revealed her own small fib she uses with her toddler. “My daughter doesn’t like to eat meat, so I tell her that if she takes a bite of meat, I’ll give her a point toward Disney World,” she shares, explaining that they’re going to the theme park for the girl’s third birthday, and the “points” will soon be used there.
It works for her and she got other parents to offer up their own white lies that help for their kids, including:
- “Elmo is napping, the park is napping, the pool is napping, everybody is napping. It works for now.”
- “I use Google Translate, English to English, and type something like, ‘The park is closed today, due to a fire’ and then play the little microphone, so Siri says it out loud when I tell my daughter I’m calling the park to see if it’s open.”
- “You can only watch cartoons in cars. That’s why they’re called CAR-toons.”
- “I let my daughter try black coffee and of course, she hated it. Now, if I don’t want to share my food, I tell her it’s coffee-flavored.”
- “‘Every person has their own swear word. So, if you hear a grownup say one, it’s theirs and you can’t use it. You have to make up your own words’ (Makes a nonsense word).”
- “We can’t watch ‘Baby Shark’ at bedtime/night because of child labor laws.”
- “I told my daughter that spinach tortellini was green cheese and she loves it.”
- “I told my daughter our family dog went on vacation to the beach and sent back sand as a gift. He actually died and those are his ashes.”
- “When the ice cream truck plays music, it means they’re out of ice cream.”
Source: Today