It’s great when kids are at that age where they’ll believe anything you tell them. If only they’d stay that young and dumb forever.

Here are six lies parents have actually told their kids to get them to behave, calm down, or stop asking for things:

1. “If the ice cream truck is playing music, it means they ran out of ice cream.”

2. “If you don’t behave in the McDonald’s drive thru, you get a Sad Meal instead of a Happy Meal.”

3. “This isn’t soda, it’s black water, you wouldn’t like it.”

4. “They don’t sell replacement batteries for that toy.”

5. “Calamari is Italian onion rings.”

6. “Chuck E. Cheese is only for birthday parties. You have to be invited to one to go there.”