Outrageous Fibs We Tell Kids

Outrageous Fibs We Tell the Kids: The Best Lies Grown-Ups Tell Children Charlie Ellis Did your parents ever tell you a lie? Have you ever told your children a lie? Of Course Not. We prefer to call it a Fib. Why would we as parents tell our children a lie? I know why! To get them to behave. Or maybe th......more

Outrageous Fibs We Tells the Kids has its heart in the right place, collecting all those white lies we tells kids to get them to behave or because the real answer is probably too complicated. And it may work a lot better in print than it does as an audiobook. But I can only judge it by the audio vers......more

Overall this was a quick funny listen. Some brought me back to things I was told as a child, some were funny and some were definitely outrageous. As an audio book it wasn’t a smooth listen, the flow was weird. Kind of reminded me of a coffee table fact book. I picture one fib per page and in a physi......more

There were some funny moments in this book, but I didn’t ever laugh out loud, which was disappointing. Some of the suggestions made in this book seem outdated, like pushing the star button on the telephone, but it may just be the difference in cultures that make it appear that way to me. This narrat......more

I definitely expected this to be funny. It was more just a telling of things that many parents do or tell their children (like when that super annoying toy just magically stops working but we took the batteries out…). At the least I would have enjoyed it to be told with a funny tone rather than the......more