# Things parents say to their kids that may not be quite accurate…
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 23, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961 "2017-07-23T19:41:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/61 "2017-09-02T06:27:41Z")
Your face will freeze way. (It didn’t)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/62 "2017-09-02T15:55:17Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> My dad is an amputee. When little kids would ask him what happened to his leg, he’d tell them “I didn’t clean my plate!”
[Herman weighs in:](https://youtu.be/9lFZquBi8y0?t=30)
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### Author:  [@I\_wasn\_t\_truly\_absent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_wasn_t_truly_absent)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/63 "2017-09-06T01:43:12Z")
Just in case my lovely little girl ever had to ride in an ambulance I told her the ambulance drivers drove really fast with sirens so they could get back to the hospital for lunch. One day on our walk home from junior school an ambulance blared past us with an especially loud and somehow more urgent wail, tiny Em gathered herself and said " God mammy! He must have coleslaw on his sandwiches!" If I ever get a chance to go back in time, I’d love to spend another day with that tiny sweetheart
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### Author:  [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/64 "2017-09-06T18:11:16Z")
There was a Calvin and Hobbes strip where the Dad told Calvin once upon a time the world was in black and white.
I loved that comic.
6 year olds are great. You can tell them anything.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/65 "2017-09-06T19:10:34Z")
> [@Mr.Goob](#):
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> 6 year olds are great. You can tell them anything.
Eventually, the six year odls grow up and tell their parents that they are going to The Home.
:dubious:
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/66 "2017-09-07T01:17:18Z")
That’s better than the kids telling their parents that they’re going to a nice farm up-state where they can hang out with other old folks. :eek:
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-parents-say-to-their-kids-that-may-not-be-quite-accurate/791961/67 "2017-09-07T01:59:05Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> That’s better than the kids telling their parents that they’re going to a nice farm up-state where they can hang out with other old folks. :eek:
A cautionary tale.
Be nice to your children, or have a vasectomy.
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