“My kid went up four reading levels during Covid lockdown.
Everyone thought I was really putting in a big effort with his reading.
These are just harmless parenting tricks that are necessary for survival.
So redditoru/TopRun8728asked, “Whats the mostunethical parenting hackyou know?”
They will do anything to avoid waking you up.”
u/BabesTina_69_
3.
“We do something we call ‘toy rotation.’
It’s like Christmas all over again.
No new toys; they’re the same old toys, but they love them.
We rotate them every month to two months.”
“My mom would literally change the clock so that it would display our bedtime.
And then she’d be like, ‘Oh, ten more minutes ‘til 8:30, see?'”
u/Sharp_Memory
6.
“I had a friend whose parents told him he was allergic to alcohol.
They said they found this out when he accidentally drank some as a toddler.
They told him he was in intensive care and nearly died.
On his 18th birthday, they told him they made it up so he didnt drink when underage.”
u/Yellowperil123
8. u/GentleTina_778
10.
I will definitely be using this one on my daughter."
Hannah Loewentheil
12.
“My kid went up four reading levels during Covid lockdown.
Everyone thought I was really putting in a big effort with his reading.
The truth is, I just turned on subtitles on the TV.”
When the kids act confused, he says, ‘it must be because you’re tired.'"
u/MajorCompetitive612
14.
“My nephew refused to vacuum, so I told him the thing about the vacuum sucking up ghosts.
I said that vacuuming kept houses from getting haunted; that’s why haunted houses are so dusty.
Ten years later, he is still a neat freak…and I feel responsible.”
“I tell them their tongues will turn purple if they lie to me.
The hesitation when you ask them to show you their tongue if theyve lied is a dead giveaway.
u/Keljameri
16.
(Or they realize whatever they bumped doesn’t actually hurt.)
It works great in a class full of four-year-olds.”
The resulting noise I made never failed to make me laugh hysterically and calmed me down instantly."
u/4C35101013
18.
“My niece was told that when theice creamtruck made music, it was out of ice cream.
She believed this until she was about nine years old.”
“Tell them you have Santas phone number.
I still remember the time our babysitter told me that.
She called him once when I was acting up, and I never forgot about it.”
u/CarlJustCarl
20.
“Telling your kids that the car won’t start unless everyone’s seatbelt is buckled.
Its sneaky, but at least its for their safety!”
They were always in bed by nine.
u/komakozic
22.
“My parents used to tell me that the tooth fairy comes every night to check for teeth.
