According to a Redbook study, 84 percent of readers admit to lying to their kids at least once per month.
Experts
weigh in on some "acceptable" lies. I can understand some of them, like
telling the kids that Daddy's office is closed rather than explain that
he got laid off. But I can't get behind lies that are so clearly over
the top, like telling a child that if he doesn't stop sucking his thumb
it will fall off. I know that would scare the bejeezus out of my
thumb-sucking 4-year-old. But it probably wouldn't get him to stop.
Redbook readers weighed in with their own craziest lies.
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