"Whenever I asked my dad how he knew (random fact/skill/answer to any question), he'd say, 'I went to daddy school!' Made complete sense to me that there would be a school to teach dads how to be dads. Turns out it doesn't exist, but we still reference 'daddy school' every now and then."
"I have a pretty unique last name so I've never had a middle name, when I was a kid I asked my parents why and they told me they couldn't afford to get me a middle name as you have to pay for each letter (I have a short first name) and I believed them all the way up until my daughter was born, the nurse gave me a form to fill out with my daughters name and I asked her how much? She asked, 'How much what?' I said how much per letter to name her, I've never seen a lady look at me so confused, and in that moment it clicked that my dad was joking...."
"My grandpa used to walk back into his bedroom to blow his nose, and would secretly take a bike horn out of his closet and honk it. My cousins and I all thought that was how it sounded. I begged him-begged him-to come to my class for show-and-tell. He declined, but I still didn't figure it out for years."
Parents often tell small, creative white lies to children to simplify explanations, avoid tantrums, or create magic. Examples include claiming ice cream truck bells mean the truck is sold out, inventing a fictional 'daddy school' to explain parental knowledge, calling a mall Disney store 'Disneyland', and joking that middle names cost per letter. Other tales include mimicking nose-blowing with a bike horn and blaming 'lie bumps' on karma instead of inflamed taste buds. These fabrications can persist into adulthood until unexpected moments reveal the truth, highlighting humor and imagination in parenting.
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