- Yes, I ate all my broccoli.
- I told you before, I don’t have any homework!
- It wasn’t me.
- I’m fine!
- I hate you! (slam door)
- I promise I’ll feed it andclean the cage every day!
“I promise I’ll feed it and clean the cage!”
- I’ll be back by 11 o’clock.
- It’s NOT LIKE that!
- I don’t know what you mean.
- You don’t know what I mean.
- It was different in your day.
- No, (eye roll) he did NOT stay all night! He left just after you guys went to bed!
- I’m not cold.
I was a good kid, that is why this list is so short. I’m not such a great mum, evidently, since my list of lies we tell our kids is much longer… Oh well. Time for another chocolate.
ericanexpress 
May 26, 2012 @ 17:48:28
You might not be such a great mum because your children are not old enough yet to fill out the score card that you give them once you raise them! duh!
Oh and you’re such a square! Here are some more lies:
I swear Mom, the guy at the shop just gave it to me.
This 8 week old puppy really did follow me home.
I don’t know how the burglar bars came loose, I’ve been at risk of being burgled this whole time and you don’t even care!
I’m holding it for a friend.
One beer, really, only one. (vomitting after this one will just prove that you’re lying)
Yes, there are going to be parents at the party.
etc. ;-D
May 31, 2012 @ 05:55:49
Hmm, Mel, sounds like you knew/know all the tricks. Who’s the suspect now??
May 31, 2012 @ 10:16:45
ha! Of course I did it all in the name of being a better parent to my own little liars in a decades time 🙂 – Sadly, I believe there will be new tricks and I would have forgotten some of them by then too. Ah, the cycle of life….
May 26, 2012 @ 21:37:02
whahahahaha!!! thanks, Mel, I was hoping you could flesh out this measly post for me :))
May 31, 2012 @ 05:56:35
Erica, I thought you did a great job with your list … until “bad girl” Mel weighed in. Right?!
May 31, 2012 @ 11:20:52
Thanks MJ – I was (and still am, really) such a sorry goodie-two-shoes… in pilates class Mel always called me the “library prefect” 🙂