Lies I've Told My 3 Year Old Recently

Trees do communicate with each other by releasing chemicals they they can detect, but you cannot; deer live in the forest (they’re just as interesting as unicorns to a child and you might actually see one); all the gold in the world comes from big stars that got so old and tight they exploded; if you injure your brain and depending on the area, your perception of things or even your personality can be affected; some plants can eat little frogs; a cloud may contain enough water to weigh the same as a house, and a large rain cloud could weigh as much a one hundred houses–and it floats! Your body contains many, many tiny little life forms called bacteria and they outnumber your body’s own cells by ten times, but they are much smaller than your body’s cells. The sky is blue because the air scatters the blue part of the sunlight more than all the other colors. The earth is a big ball, going around a much bigger ball of gas. Al things–even you–emit a force called gravity, the bigger the thing is the more gravity it emits. People are animals just like deer but we have evolved in a different direction. Santa Claus is a myth created by adults for children, and he’s not real, just like monsters are not real. As a parent, I want you to know that I will always do my best to be honest with you.

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