My mom thinks that I am the greatest.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, is it wrong to lie to children?

Wait, does the Easter Bunny only shop at CBS Pharmacy? See? Mike the other day I was texting with my mom and my sister and we were texting

about lying. Like you were lying to each other or you were just texting about the concept of lying.

I don't remember how this came up, but we were talking about whether we lie to our children, because we're all now parents and does it matter?

Now before you say anything can I just say that since we are going to talk about lies that we may or may not have been

told by our parents that this may be something that any parents listening to the conversation may want to listen to on their

air pods. Yes. I mean the funny thing about my childhood is I cannot recall a single occasion on which my parents lied to me.

Or that you knew they lied to you.

Yes, okay, that's true.

Surely they must have lied to me, but I to this day cannot think of a time where that happened.

I will say I'm roughly in the same boat with the exception of maybe the most glaring and obvious examples that are

kind of ubiquitous in culture of Tooth Ferry Santa Claus Easter Bunny stuff like that and I

will just lay it out on the line here. I think that those are very good

lies to tell. What, tooth fairy lies? Yeah, I do, but I think that there is something really beautiful

about this idea of childhood and fantasy and imagination and the excitement that that brings and I know there are others who disagree and I know that there have been some who you know rocks their world

when they find out that their parents have lied to them but I think that they rocks their What do you think? I mean, did you tell your children that those fictional beings exist?

Let's see, Santa Claus, yes. Easter Bunny, yes, maybe for fewer years. I think they were like wise to the absence of the Easter Bunny a little sooner,

probably because they could see that everything in the Easter basket was from CVS.

You're like, wait, does the Easter Bunny only shop at CVS pharmacy and then

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