Controversial thing for you to post about so people aren't nice to you: what's the best lie you've ever told to a child? And if you've never lied to a child (boring), what's a funny lie you think you could keep a straight face while telling? (lmao that could actually be an oc prompt - it's not, but it could be!)
My current frontrunner is either the ongoing bit I have at work where if they hide directly behind me during hide and seek I simply will never see/hear them, the time I convinced an entire class of 5yos that I don't believe dogs exist (they're just weirdly shaped cats!), or the time I refused to acknowledge Christmas existed
Not Father Christmas, mind you, just the holiday that he's associated with - I genuinely pretended for an entire day that Santa was real but that I thought they'd all collectively invented the concept of Christmas, it was very funny
YOU TOLD THEM YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE IN DOGS LMAOOOO stop gaslighting kids is so funny 😭😭 Done properly, it is harmless and hilarious and kids are just the best. Off the top of my head, I can NOT pull up a specific example but I've worked with kids for like... 14ish years now?? so I absolutely have done bits just like this. I feel like my favorite/go-to is just consistently calling the kid the wrong age (usually early 20s lmao) and/or the wrong name since kids love when adults are blatantly wrong about things lmao










