Out of the house this morning I was carrying a plastic bag containing “poop in a case” (nappy if you prefer), to dispose of it in the bin. It was “bin day” today and Elliott asked in shock:
“Maman what are you doing?!”
“I am taking the dirty nappies to the bin for the bin men to take away today.”
“No Maman!! they can’t take my “car” nappy! I need it to sleep!” (Elliott wears pull ups with Cars characters on)
“It is ok darling we have plenty more that are clean, to use when you need it”
“No, if the bin man takes it, I won’t have any anymore!”
At this point signs of extreme distress were showing. His trembling voice was announcing tears, this is when I quickly said:
“It is ok Elliott, the bin man takes the nappies away to wash them and brings them back to our house all clean for you to use again! You should be really grateful for the hard work they put in this job so you always have clean nappies at night!”
“That’s ok, so when does he bring them back? Can I see him?”
…
I gave up! No matter how hard is the truth you should never lie to children, just tell them to zip it when the conversation becomes too heavy…
heheheh! Excuse me can I borrow your bin men they sound much better than ours LOL! I try not to tell the little white lies because they will come back and bite me in the bum but sometimes you just have to!
Posted by: Laura C | Thursday, 13 May 2010 at 10:32 AM
Fantastic! I love it when you come up with some fantastic story to try and ward off the tears and you end up caught in the child trap of so many questions! It's happened to me soooo many times! x
Posted by: ThatGirl39 | Thursday, 13 May 2010 at 04:15 PM
You are right not to, it definitely backfires all the time! :)
Posted by: Perfectly Happy Mum | Thursday, 13 May 2010 at 05:41 PM
I think it will happen lots of other times... :)
Posted by: Perfectly Happy Mum | Thursday, 13 May 2010 at 05:42 PM
My brother used to get hysterical when my Mum cut my hair and always picked it up off the floor and put it back on my head. My daughter has no such hang up luckily though but these little quirks are pretty funny once the tears have dried..
Posted by: nixdminx | Friday, 14 May 2010 at 11:32 AM
Inspired lie, well done. We're you a lawyer in a former life....
Posted by: Lou | Friday, 14 May 2010 at 06:03 PM
Amen to that!
Posted by: muummmeeeee! | Monday, 17 May 2010 at 04:17 PM
Hehe...I've got caught in the white lie trap a few times, so just decided to go with the truth and deal with the fallout immediately
Posted by: nmaha | Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 06:09 AM
Hehehe so that's what in store for me when Pumpkin learns to speak :)
BTW I've tagged you on my blog
Posted by: pumpkinsworld | Wednesday, 26 May 2010 at 10:03 PM
Ha ! I've been caught out on this so many times so many times ! Now I kind of go for the honest policy - almost always...Great blog xxx
Posted by: Belgravia Wife - sort of | Friday, 28 May 2010 at 07:16 AM