The Parenting Wall of Shame...

[Aimz]

My Dad was offered a job un the US when I was 4 and my brother was 5. We had a dearly loved ****er spaniel named Mungo who was really old and obviously couldn't come with us.

One day before we left for the US Dad told us we had to say goodbye to Mungo because he was going to live on a farm where there were HUUUUUGE paddocks for him to run around in and lots of magpies for him to chase. He was going to have a FANTASTIC time!!

My parents still maintain to this day (I'm 23 and my brother is 24) that Mungo went to a picturesque farm

Poor Mungo

[Janie]

Oh Amy, that is so sad! Will they ever give it up do you think?

I'm loving this thread, laughing out aloud here too!

[Aimz]

Oh Amy, that is so sad! Will they ever give it up do you think?

My brother and I grilled them over Christmas lunch after a few bottles of wine and they stood their ground!! Mungo went to a farm!!! It's funny because it was only a few years ago that I went "Hang on a sec!!! As if!" - it worked right up until I was about 18!

[Rouge]

Paris' finger smells REALLY bad if she's told a lie. Strangely though she won't let me smell it sometimes...

I remember reading the funniest story one day. A little kid was in a line at a bank with his mum, and he was chucking a major wobbly. He looked up and saw the security camera and stood very still. He then turned to his mother and said "Mummy is that how Santa watches us?" She took it and ran with it. And after that no matter where they were all she needed to do was point out the camera and he was as good as gold.

[Turkish Delight]

Fantastic thread topic. Love it!

When Devrim was naughty (he doesn't fall for it anymore though, shame!) i used to pick up the phone dial an absurd number and talk to the police telling them to come and get Devrim because he was naughty. Mind you i was speaking in Turkish as that was the language he would understand then. I would get him to listen to the voice over on the other side saying "p o 7 8 3 your call could not be connected, please check the number and try again". He wouldn't know what they were saying, he thought i really called the police and would behave. He never questioned why they never came though.

Now he uses that scare tactic on us when we misbehave by him. He says "i'm gonna call the police and tell them that my mummy and daddy are being naughty and to come and get them!"

[christy]

Cai, I use the smelly finger trick on Matilda now after hearing your brilliant way of dealing with lies. It works a charm!

[aussienic]

Paris' finger smells REALLY bad if she's told a lie. Strangely though she won't let me smell it sometimes...

OOO I am so going to use this one Excellent

love this thread

[aussienic]

hehe got to use the smell a lie thing sooner then I thought and it worked

This thread has great chuckle value..

[Kitt3n]

We have lots of fairies in our house. Things magically dissapear in the middle of the night (like gifts of Bratz dolls).

I just tell DD that the fairies musnt like them and that she is too pretty and lovely to play with dolls like that.......

[Lisa]

Oh I just remembered another thing I once did to my eldest son.
When he was about 7, we were in Big W, and he was being really naughty, taking off and hiding from me so I couldn't find him etc... he really just made my time there terrible.
Anyway, on the way out he was bugging me for the sweets that are near the registers, so while he was being annoying, I whispered to the lady on the check out to have a word to him, and told her what he had been doing. So, after a few seconds, the lady turns to James and says "Excuse me little boy... I have been watching you on the cameras in the store and this is your last chance. If you come in here and be naughty for your mum or anyone else again, I'm sorry to say you won't be allowed back in."
Ever since that day, I have not had one bit of trouble with my kids going into any shop. It was kinda funny though because the lady remembered him and James would behave so well whenever he saw her.

[MissWingBat]

re - the smelly finger - we use the one on our daughter that her tongue turns blue if she's lying. Funny she won't let us see her tongue sometimes!!

[~Kate~]

I am so loving this thread!!! Comes at a great time as well...I'm going to be needing many of these soon I think.

[Hollybolly]

When Luke was about 3yrs, he used to have a pet axylotle (a mexican walking fish.. perhaps the ugliest thing you've ever seen in your life ) - He named him Peter Parker (Spiderman), as he was going through the Spiderman stage at the time.

Anyway, I do not know what DH & I did wrong, but we just couldn't seem to keep him alive
We replaced him once, and then when the 2nd one died, I decided that it was maybe time to attempt to explain what was happening...
DH & my brother decided he was still too young, and so my brother picked one up on the way up to our house the morning that Peter Parker #2 had died.

Peter Parker was a white one - the albino ones that you can almost see through... well by brother turned up with a black one with brown speckly spots all over him
When I asked him how he was going to come through with that one, he told me to relax, he'd take care of it!

A few hrs later, when Luke finally realised that Peter Parker didn't look the same anymore, he asked what had happened to him... my brother said 'Gee, don't you know anything? Your Peter Parker is like the real Peter Parker... the real one puts his suit on and changes into Spiderman, your one puts his suit on and changes into someone else as well.... he's Peter Parker you know!'
(Pretty amazing comeback on my brothers part considering he had drunk the better part of a bottle of wine at this stage )

Well, Luke went for it, and to this day, I still don't know if he ever figured it out, he's probably forgotten by now

Peter Parker #3 ended up 'crossing over' as well... and it was at that stage I took it upon myself to tell Luke what really happened

[Trillian]

We got Lindsay an absolute pearler a while back. We live on a property for those that may not know, and we have a gate at the end of our drive that is shut if we have sheep out etc. So this day the gate was shut and we had to go out for the day and Lindsay volunteered to open the gate when we got to it, so we stop, he gets out and opens the gate and then just as he closes it, DH starts to drive off, leaving Lindsay behind. Poor kid didn't know what to do. Probably a bit cruel actually, but both DH and I had parents that did that to us when we were kids LOL.

I've also done the usual too with not being able to open lids/bottles etc and faking that there is any chocolate left in the house when they find the wrappers.