Try not laughing at these hilarious white lies parents have told their kids

“My girls believed the car would not start until everyone had their seat belt fastened!” — Sharron Price Jones

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“My 12-year-old son decided that he was going to run away from home. I told him I was sorry to hear that. He started to pack his things and I told him that it was against the law to take anything that he himself hadn’t purchased. Kind of hard to ‘make it’ on your own with a collection of Britney Spears DVDs, action figures and MatchBox Cars.” — Renee Matthews Carson

“When my kids were younger, they were under the impression that the security cameras in stores were actually ‘Santa Cams.’ They never misbehaved in a store!” — Jennifer Drake-Addleman

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“My dad told me that cheese would grow hair on your chest… I was a six-year-old girl.” — Betsy Woolford

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“You have to snap your fingers to get the traffic light to turn green. She believed it until 7, when we told her the truth.” — Tamara Grzetic Saban

“When my nephew was three years old, he would only eat carrots. So I told him that other veggies are also a carrot but with different colours, and he would gladly eat them all.” — Gojar MC

“That buffalo wings came from buffalos.” — Renita Hernandez

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