lies raul told his 3 year old recently

Trees talk to each other at night.

All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.

Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose.

Tiny bears live in drain pipes.

If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.

The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago.

Everyone knows at least one secret language.

When nobody is looking, I can fly.

We are all held together by invisible threads.

Books get lonely too.

Sadness can be eaten.

I will always be there.

lies i've told my 3 year old recently, by raul gutierrez

Comments

[dogma-central]

That is so beautifull it makes me want to cry.

[tim]

this is awesome.

[kirsten]

love it!
[as the mother of a 5 year old and a 2 year old, i will be able to add these to my already growing list of lies...]

[Heather]

Aw, those are great!

[Dale]

Early childhood is a time when people can believe anything wholeheartedly. These kinds of lies provide a source of deep wonder that lasts a lifetime.

The other day there was thunder and lightning, and I remembered a time when I believed those sounds were made by the rough hewn bowling balls of Nordic trolls crashing into pins made of granite. But I didn't just remember it, it brought the wonder of my childhood back up to the surface.

It's important for parents to capitalize on that openness while it's there.

[andy cochrane]

This was EXACTLY what i needed right now- it made me laugh out loud. Thank you for posting this Tina.

[San]

"Trees talk to each other at night; Everyone knows at least one secret language; Books get lonely too" are not lies. And I am 99% sure that "We are all held together by invisible threads" isn't a lie either.

I love it anyway! :)

[rickyfitz]

What crap. What utter bullshit. Give the kid real answers.

[Thinkabout]

What a wonderful poetic writing!
Thank you very much!

[amy korngiebel]

adorable. perhaps one day, the moon and the sun will make up.

[Alex]

That was so sweet! I think it's amazing how kids can believe anything; sometimes I really miss the days when I wasn't so doubtful.

I remember when I was younger, my mother told me the Sugar Cane Factory was a cloud maker, and that I could reach rainbows if I tried enough. And let's not forget Santa Claus.

Brava.

[vreni]

eigentlich sehr schön, ausser die letzte aussage. die ist ziemlich traurig, aber natürlich sage ich das auch immer wieder zu meinem 3-jährigen.

[24 Years Older Than My Siblings]

My baby brother thinks he is a pirate. He goes to sleep every night with the promise that "Captain Jack" will leave candy on the dining room table for him in the middle of the night, after he is asleep. (Candy meaning an assortment of health foods, plus a jellybean or two [heathconscious parents]).

One day, recently, after my father and his mother had a very long week, he woke them at around 5:45, the usual time, and said:

"DAD! CAPTAIN JACK FORGOT!"

No jellybeans that morning.

The strength of a person is buttressed by the walls of love parents build around them. They will believe anything if you keep them well, and then, if you have done your job right, when the time comes, they will laugh at the silly stories you told them.

Like Captain Jack.

[dosdedos]

I can't think of them as lies. They are just a prove that grownups can have imagination too. A very nice thought, don't you think?

My dad used to tell me things like that all the time and I'm sure they are helping me today to have a smile, knowing life can be so hard.

[YeaRite]

You can eat sadness.

Another morbidly obese teenager with an unnatural attraction to black makeup gets their start.

[Oliver]

Tiny bears do live in drain pipes !

They're called rats.

[dylan]

When I was a kid, we lived near the ocean. The shore there was very rocky, and there were alot of large rocks that my brother and I would climb and jump around on. This made our parents very nervous, they constantly thought that eventually one of the large rocks would shift and crush one of us.

So my dad said, "Those rocks move every one thousand years, and this could be the year."

Obviously this made my brother and I think that there was some mystical force which would make the rocks move around on their own.

[Markus Widmer]

To a three-year-old, these aren't lies. They still live in a magical world, where everything is a story. Whether it's true or not is simply not relevant. That's why young children can't lie – they don't see the difference. It's like saying that Shakespeare lied because there are no witches at all.

Love this. I like to think that my boys love those little crazy stories.

[Elit Alice]

wow! INSPIRING!

[Josh]

I hope you really didn't tell your kid this stuff. I remember being 3 years old quite clearly and I remember when my mother told me that "all women have eyes in the backs of their heads". I really believed that was true.

When you're three, you're parents word is the gospel and lies like that really mess with you. They're the only link you have to understanding the world and if you can't trust what they say you could develop some trust issues later in life!

When you kid asks you a tough question how about giving him/her a clear explanation instead of taking the easy road and feeding them a lie? You'll be surprised how much they understand.

[Lala]

Raoul is just amazing - so talented. I met him and his family in Brooklyn last summer.

[Cindy]

I belly laughed reading this list!
Especially the part about small bears in drain pipes!

The last lie is pretty sad though.

[Jan-Willem Bats]

You're evil.

[Wolter]

This time is considered a magical time, because it's a time when she still trusts you and hasn't yet figured out that you lie to her.

[Larry Gottschalk]

I just spent some time perusing Raul's blog...amazing. Great stuff.