Home Grown

I used to tell my 5-year-old, when he was a toddler, that Pedialite was "kid pop."

Angie, I have to admit to feeding my babies baby-food liver from a jar until they were old enough to tell me NO! I can't stand liver - but I fed it to them.....LOL.

Love the pics, especially the last one. That one deserves to be blown up!

We tell our 3 year old that water (she hates water) is fairy juice...if she drinks 2 bottles a day the fairy leaves ONE M&M on her nightstand at night. So far...so good!

Sorry about the copies!

E still thinks crackers are cookies and she's almost four!

I told lucas (2) when we were in Kansas that those crappy machines with superballs and gum only took special kansas quarters. he totally believed it!

I told all my kids (and now the next generation) that seltzer water is pop and they drink it and love it. Especially if I squeeze a lemon in it!

Love those pics.

~K!

We told my nephew that yogurt was ice cream. At 4 yrs old he went to a b-day party where he was served the real thing. He came home and said to my sister "can you come in my room? I need to speak to you about something". I was in the living room laughing as he read her the riot act over this lie. He asked what else we had lied about. Hmmmm , so many things come to think of it.

I miss those days when you could convince kids that good food is a SPECIAL TREAT. Heh.

A few times I tried to get away with telling my son that no.. there was not cream of mushroom soup in the rice dish I made... It was just milk, couldn't fool him though he didn't like it.

I used to tell them pork chops were chicken. And that there wasn't any more Halloween candy left.

All that teething was worth it! Look at that beautiful smile!

I convinced Abby there was a Binky Fairy who gave her a swell prize for putting all her binkies under the pillow (there were so many she had to sleep with her head off the pillow.) Another lie of omission: I convinced her Toys R Us was a hardware store but that one fell apart by the time she was two and she's still ticked off about it. :-)

I often tell them that they will "burst into flames" if they do this or that - just the really dangerous stuff. Hey...it works. :)

I used to have mine run into the house whenever I heard the bells on the ice cream truck. It was all ruined by a neighbor who bought them a treat. My daughter still gets a kick out of reminding me, lol.

BTW, telling him a saltine is not so bad, the English call everything a biscuit.

I've only done a few:

Ovaltine is or I should say, WAS, chocolate milk. My husband was so NOT impressed after a few years of this he went to the grocery store and bought his own Hershey's syrup. Once it ran out, though, we were back to the Ovaltine.

And fish. My son would only eat flounder. Or so he thought. Until last year we called every white fish flounder and let him be. We had to own up after the husband caught a huge striped bass and the boy was convinced he would hate it. When, in fact, he'd been eating it for years.

I love the picture of your three sweeties. Grace's smile is too cute.

I add benefiber to all our food and tell them it's magic sprinkles.

Oldest never liked cheese when he was little -
we told him that chocolate was cheese and got away with it until he was four.