This is what the passive income 1% crowd tell the rest of us.
Sure, I fantasize about doing this sort of shit with my kid sometimes too.
But you don’t do it.
Oof, this is definitely a:
Every lie incurs a debt to the truth
Sort of thing. It’s not going to be fun when your child understands that there is no school on weekends, you’ll lose a lot of trust overnight with this.
Every kid survived the Santa lie.
It’s not a lie, you can always fill weekends with home school.
A lot of my coworkers actually do take their kids to a separate school on weekends. One of my coworkers said his parents did this to him and he hated it lol but he is really smart now though so 乁( •_• )ㄏ
I did after school tutoring on weekends, it’s not the worst thing that ever happened to me.
when your child understands that there is no school on weekends
“I did not lie to you, we just all as parents agreeded to make the same offering to our children”.
(it’s not even half lying; setting agreements as adults is what bulding a society is about)
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a “lie”, you’re still manipulating a child.
And it’s a fucking lie, too
Its lying. I mean i dont judge. If you want to teach your kid how to lie your way out of developing any spine, i dont wanna stop you. Not telling the whole truth can even be interpreted as lying.
Good, kids need to stop believing every bullshit they hear. Critical thinking is in short supply these days.
It’s a parent’s job to be someone their kid can trust.
The kid will survive. Stop being so irrational about a thing the kid won’t even remember 2 years later.
Santa isn’t real, vast majority of kids have survived this misinformation.
It will be pretty obvious that you did this out of self interest. If you wanna teach your kid to lie themselves out of putting any effort, this is the way to do it. Its the only conclusion for your child that critical thinking will bring. No one will trust your kid to do any work, this means it will have to fend for itself. There will definitely corrective info from classmates, teachers, but by that time the damage is already done, and the only lesson that remains will be that your dad/mom is a terrible human beeing.
We’re talking about a 4 years old.
Stop projecting your unmedicated paranoia to 4 years old
What will happen is that they’ll figure it out, be mad for about 5 hours, and then have Dino nuggies for dinner and won’t remember any of it.
Kids are dumb.
well if you dont even manage to keep this stunt covered for a year then maybe you are just stupid for trying in the first place.
Mate it’s a small white lie to a 4 year old kid. It doesn’t matter if it’s uncovered in a year or less. Stop being so fucking dramatic and take your meds.
no thats the point. I genuinely think you might be unlucky enough that this lie stays with the kid for too long. might even reject other classmates attempts at clearing it out because your kid trusts you. Also critical thinking involves dividing facts from fiction, and you dont teach this by telling fiction. If thats a white lie i dont wanna see your actual lies.
My nephew asked me why all the old pictures in his great grandmother’s photo book were in black and white.
I told him that because back then they hadn’t invented colors yet, and that they had to invent green yellow and red because nobody could figure out the traffic lights.
He bought it, moved on. Later he learned the truth. He also learned to not believe everything an adult says. I can’t fool him with stuff like that nowadays.
Haha, it’s also something you have to learn, to be fair. You can’t just throw them to the logic wolves like a logic Spartan.
Yeah let’s start teaching them lies straight away
Not like they wouldn’t learn anyways. Learning to lie is an important part in development.
Not if you’re a Vulcan!
No Santa for your kids, I suppose
Ideally not
I’m not planning to teach my kid to believe in fairy tales.
santa is haram. Only jesus is allowed.
doing this is going to make your children hate you when they grow up, have fun with that. you deserve it for being a shit parent
I genuinely think shit like this is what promotes antisocial behavior in children. As in clinically antisocial, not just a synonym for introverted.
Children learn hundreds of new words and new things every week. That’s their entire purpose in life at that age.
Deliberately lying to them about how basic reality works for extended periods of time is likely what causes the neural short circuits of religion and conservatism.
You’re teaching your kid to manipulate others to get what they want. Fuck that.
Yeah. I honestly think it’s also a fuckup to treat children totally differently from adults. Probably around age 7 they start noticing it and a lot of people resent that treatment.
I think this is another case of a joke that people have taken seriously. There’s no chance this would work in reality. It just makes for a funny hypothetical.
Idk how to tell you but there are people in here that think this is a good idea. If it is all sarcasm then thank god, but i doubt it is, since they are arguing it.
That’s going to backfire one day.
RIP child’s trust.
Not to mention, I mean…other kids talk about how they don’t go to school on those days? Now, yes, I am a super sleuth and a genius, but I’m starting to get the inkling that there’s some fishy, dubious lies going on here.
When younger, my parents made me believe in Santa Claus. Most other kids were believing in it too, and I was getting more Christmas present. So it was cool and fair, even if not true.
But here, the person is lying to his kid to get away with something. Not cool.
But no one else is lying to their kids about this. So the game would be up pretty quick when any other kid in school talks about the weekend. Which…they all will.
What age are kids in ‘pre-k’? I’m imagining like 3-4 years old? I wouldn’t be surprised at that working with some kids that age. Not saying I think the story is true necessarily, but just that young kids are very trusting, don’t always put together information they get in different settings, and don’t really discuss weekend plans with each other much.
Why should someone on the Internet lie? nobody does this. /s
4 years olds according to Lemmy: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/887/981/2cf.jpg
Actual 4 years old: Dying a slow and painful death because they don’t have their favorite Dino nuggie shape on their plate.
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wow, even a 4 year old knows that schools are bullshit.
I guess for some people the dumber you are the more impressed you are with your own ability to fool a child. Probably because that’s the last stage of their child’s life where they can still pretend to be smarter…
Maybe this is fun now. It won’t be later tho
There is always sunday school.
No one: Me telling my kid there is sunday school:
I can’t imagine there’s never a scenario where the teacher says “See you Monday,” on a Friday. I think this is fiction.
That’s good parenting!
You forgot this: /s
I did not.
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