How gullible am I - taken in by 2.2 and 3.6 year old DGCs!

I've been had too! Told by senior GS aged 3 that younger one loved cheese sandwiches. Results hungry miserable wee one and smug older one telling Mum that Gran couldn't get wee one to eat anything!

Never underestimate a two year old, my GC used to try and hoodwink me all the time. Have you ever tried escaping from cot/bed in one of those sleeping bags ?
My eldest GD told me the last time she stayed that she was going to watch Harry Potter as she had overheard Mummy telling Daddy that she was old enough to watch these films now

I'm still puzzled by it. For all his faults, telling lies for the sake of it isn't one of DGSs, but I got the distinct feeling that his little sister thought about her answer before continuing the, er, lets call it a 'misunderstanding'. If she did, then heaven help us all as she gets older

Oh dear, maybe she takes after me. At three years old, I was once playing out with my six-year-old brother and we got our best clothes covered in melted tar from the road. My elder brother went home and tried to hide (our mum says she just had to follow the tarmac footprints to find him), but I went to our next-door neighbour and told her that my mum had sent me round to see if she could get the tar off my clothes!!!

'Trying it on' rather than lying I think
You're not gullible per se, but a grandmother so someone 'safe' to try it out on IMO
Bright little girl there!

It's easy to be taken in by a pair of wide blue (in our family) eyes, innocent and unblinking and the dreaded words '...but mummy/daddy said we could...' and they know that mummy and daddy are at a wedding with their phones turned off!

Yes, pushing the boundaries is quite healthy and normal. When faced with this sort of dilemma I say 'I'll just give Mummy/Daddy/your teacher a quick phone call to see if that's OK. Then I fish out my mobile.

Their face usually says it all

I'll remember that for the future Anya!

I go with "nannies the adult here at the moment so nannie decides"

I remember asking DGS "Have you asked Mummy?" Once when he asked me something (probably TV) when he was about 2+ , and he replied confidently "Yes". What he didn't add was that Mummy had said a firm "No!" But he had answered my question "truthfully". Moral, rephrase the question!

My dgd is aged 7 and is a most adorable child, biddable most of the time.
Since she was 6 months we have looked after her at least one day a week, (and now also her 4 year old brother), family Sunday dinners and occasional random times. When she was around 3 or 4 she told her mother (my dil) that I had smacked her.... total rubbish. Her mum mentioned it to me, knowing quite well that I wouldn't have smacked her. And indeed if she had been given a tap on the legs that she would have deserved it.... but it didn't happen and never has happened.
At that time, and now, dgd loved to come to us, always had a great time, her claim of me smacking her was not mentioned further.

Mum and dad had spoken with dgd who insisted I had smacked her, although they knew she was telling a lie, dgd 'would not break'

About a month later on one of her days with us, upon arrival her mum said..... you have something to say to granny.
Dgd came to me and said..... "" Granny, I'm sorry I told a lie, you did not smack me and I'm very sorry""
We never got to the bottom of why ?? I think she said it (for whatever reason) and then couldn't go back on it. And why she then decided to admit that it was a lie..... who knows.

Her mum and dad totally knew it was a lie, but had her parents been different types of people.... it could have caused trouble.

As it is, her parents totally trust us with regards to discipline of her and her 4 year old brother, and have never questioned it.

Strange isn't it, Coolgran!

That reminds me of an incident last year. DGS was getting on for three at the time, and we were all leaving their house together. Suddenly, DGS launched himself out of the door shouting "stop it Daddy, don't hit me, you're hurting me". It was all a complete act, as none of us had even touched him, but what any passer-by would have thought is anybody's guess.

Sometimes, what goes on in their minds is a complete mystery!

When my DGD was about 4, she spotted some Rennies on the bedside table. 'My mummy gives me those when I have a poorly tummy' she said. 'I have a poorly tummy now, can I have one please?' I couldn't imagine my DD giving her Rennies obviously but didn't want to disbelieve my DGD. I rang DD and DGD was promptly given a stern lecture on the perils of lying.

Little 4 year old dgs is very fond of the phrase....Just joking !!

Coolgran if DGS told DD I'd smacked him (I never would) her response would probably be "Well what did you do to deserve it ?" Thereby putting him on the spot

He's nearly 6 and unfortunately has been caught out on lies a couple of times. As others have said, what are they thinking.

My aunt once had one of her little nephews to stay for a few days. Everything was fine until she tried to wash his hair. He told her that she mustn't wash it because his head would bleed. She was certain that his mother would have mentioned this but at the same time didn't want to have to cope with a bleeding head! When his mother collected him she confirmed that it was complete fantasy on his part