I had my Son convinced that giants existed and they liked marshmellow's for a while when he was younger. The big rows of marshmellows in the fields were peace offerings . He doesn't buy any of my shit anymore lol.
I'm usually straight up with them, except about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy...they still loosely believe they exist at 9....
The Priller, the Duc, the Tiller and the RC were all referred to as tractors at some point. Seems like a natural progression.
Many years ago my kids watched a show on TV where the aborigines in OZ were eating toasted caterpillars, they said they tasted like nuts. A little while later we were at breakfast and they like honey nut cherrios. I read the contents on the box and pointed out that one of the ingredients was ........caterpillars! Be careful goofing on your kids...they don't believe anything I tell them anymore and they're 36 and 40!
I don't jerk their chain about everything, but we like joking around and keeping things light unless you have to be serious. Life is unfortunately full of serious stuff that inevitably forces it's way in. No need to be so rigid about the rest of it. In case nobody has figured it out from my posting here.... I don't take myself too serious lol. Plus I'm trying not to raise gullible muppets that believe everything people tell them..... He still believes in Santa at 8, but He tries to trick the tooth fairy by switching the container his tooth is in, and moving it around so the tooth fairy can't find it.....I'm pretty sure he knows the tooth fairy is bunk, and through deductive reasoning has probably figured out the rest....We'll ride the Santa train as long as possible because he loves Christmas for all the right reasons. He did try and stay up late last year to catch him in the act, but Santa stayed up later....and left some hoof prints, and sleigh tracks in the snow outside....... My daughter (6) still believes calamari is onion rings lol. She loves them, and cannot be convinced otherwise. When I get her real onion rings she hates them and only eats the batter "dad I think the onions in these rings are bad or something" lol We've told her a thousand times they're squid rings, but she still thinks I'm joking. Can't imagine why, I come from a long line of jokers .