Oh, absolutely. She asks absurd questions like that all the time, just to see what kind of reaction she’ll get. I played along, and turned the tables on her. 
I had a first sergeant like that. Believe me, that was a lot more dangerous.
When Bricker Jr was five I told him that September was special because there were eight days in every week, the extra day being “Blurgsday,” and appearing between Thursday and Friday.
He accused me of making it up.
So later that day I showed him a calendar page (one that took me half an hour to create in Power Point) that confirmed Blurgsday.
He was still skeptical but willing to be convinced when his mom shattered the whole experiment.
Have you seen the movie Dogtooth?
I was what was essentially a camp counselor for a few summers while in college. I had a weird looking key on my keying that was for a trunk I would use to bring stuff back and forth to school. The kids noticed it once and asked me what it was so I told them it was a skeleton key that could open any lock. They all believed it and it became a minor legend for a while 
I have 2 young ones in my house currently at the tooth losing stage of life. I have told them that if they never stick their tongue in the hole left by a lost tooth, a gold tooth will grow. But if they stick their tongue in the hole, the enzymes from the tongue will make a regular tooth grow.
I also told them that water runs uphill at night, that’s why waterfalls never run out of water.
She probably didn’t make that up, since that was a common belief in my childhood and is pretty widespread.
Here for example.
We always told the kids that we couldn’t watch tv or play video games when the sun was shining. We lived in AZ - the sun was usually shining. When my kids were 5 and 6, we got a Wii. My husband suggested we play that afternoon and my 5 yr old son was flabbergasted that the TV actually worked when the sun was out. We hadn’t realized he actually thought it was a power issue instead of a parenting rule!
The world was black and white until the 1940’s and not fully color until the 60’s. That’s why there are very few color films, TV shows or photos from before then.
That there was an easter bunny !
My dad told me that Lebanon bologna (which you might not have ever heard of if you’re not from or have lived in PA) was horse meat when I was about 8. I didn’t eat lebanon again until I was a full adult.
When my daughters were very young, I told them that by feeling their pulse in their wrist, I could tell whether they were lying or telling the truth. I used this on them for several years.
Well, when they were about 14 & 16 years old, we were all reminiscing about funny things they used to do. I said, “And remember how I had you girls convinced that I could tell whether you were lying by feeling your pulse?” My older daughter’s jaw dropped open and she said, “You mean you couldn’t??!!” That’s when I realized I could have been using that technique all through her tween and teen years, when I really needed her to believe it was futile to lie to me! (The younger daughter was not so gullible.)
This seems pretty terrible to me, and I can’t imagine saying that to my kid. Imagine his fear if he didn’t meet “your standards”. Uggh, it makes me ill to think about it.
^ I agree. Some of the stories upthread seem to go beyond fun and games. Kids need to learn during childhood that they must be very careful about trusting others, and they should learn at some point that their parents aren’t infallible, but some of these stories don’t sound good. I wonder if/how many of them are cases of people doing what their parents did to them.
Insofar as you can judge anyone from message board postings, I’d rate it as a high probability that CairoCarol is savvy enough to figure out if she’s actually at risk of freaking her son out. And to not do it.
I don’t have much of a personal contribution to make to the thread. We never really got around to teaching our children that the name for the white stuff that comes out of cows is pronounced beer…
Similarly, I have audio and channel control buttons on the backside of my steering wheel (older car; I don’t know if newer models still have this feature).
We were driving somewhere, and I was channel surfing. My nephew (about age 8) asked how I was doing that.
I told him it was “mind control radio.”
There are Piggly Wiggly grocery stores. Only obese people can work there, and the scanner goes oink every time it reads a bar code.
Primitive baptist churches are where the cave baptists go.
Wait, you don’t actually think we told him that in such a way that he was supposed to believe it, do you? For heaven sakes, my son knew we were joking. This may come as a surprise to you, but my family (husband and son) are the greatest joys of my life, and they both know it, and reciprocate with tremendous love and affection.
It’s possible to have a sick sense of humor and still be a good person, y’know?
That’s a good one!
My 6-year-old surprised me with one from one of his own friends, who claimed he had gone uphill skiing over winter break.
I tell my kids all sorts of lies, but I made them both a deal that if they ask me if I’m telling the truth, I gotta be honest with them. Safe words are important :).