By Anonymous - 27/03/2009 13:05 - Austria

Today, I was outside searching for "treasures" with my son using small plastic shovels. All of a sudden he starts screaming. He dug up the bones of our old dog. I told him that we had sent him away to live on a farm, I even helped my son write letters to the farm owners. FML
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You deserved it 93 219
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L4m3r 3

Perhaps you should have buried the dog further down... he must've been awfully close to the surface if your son was able to reach the bones with a plastic shovel.

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songstress4life 0

And this is why we shouldn't lie to our kids about dumb stuff. They can handle the truth.

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CallingYouOut 0

This story is fake. As many of you have pointed out--but yet, for some reason, choose to ignore--the facts just don't pan out. Who buries a dog in a shallow enough grave in the back yard so that it could be dug out with a plastic toy shovel? A dog that had died within the memorable lifetime of a young child would not yet have fully decomposed into just bones. Why would a small child find some bones in the backyard and automatically think, "Hey, that's my dog?" Does he have some advanced knowledge of canine anatomy, such that he can identify a dog by a few bones? (I doubt he unearthed the entire corpse with his plastic shovel.) So, yeah... fake fake fake. That being said, plenty of parents tell this lie, and it's not even remotely close to bad parenting. In my experience, only bad parents (or people who aren't parents at all) accuse others of being bad parents. Raising a child is not like fixing a car; there's no manual, and no single way to handle a situation "correctly." Would this have been an opportunity to explain death to the child? Sure. Does not taking that opportunity make her a bad parent? Not even close. Is the child going to "hate her forever because she lied?" Give me a break... that's the stupid thing I've ever heard. But, again ... that's besides the point. Fake story.

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sexxxy_lexxxy 0

ohmygosh, #93, i swear, i had a WHOLE LONG thing typed out, then lookeed up and read yours, and you made EVERY point that i did. guess we're the only two smart ones left on FML.

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Storyofmylife77 0

oooooooooooooooooooooooooh my gosh................

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Vehicle 1

WOW. Yeah, YLiF... But I'm afraid to say that it's your fault it is.

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SummerWind 0

..... You are a terrible parent.

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F_YOUR_Life6 0

That's only a "You deserved that one," because you didn't remember where you burried the dog, let alone remembered that the dog was in the backyard, but other than that, it's okay, because depending on the kid's age when the dog died, it was for the best.

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sarahlouisehw 0

that is why you friggin dig a deeper hole....

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carpe_cotidie 0

The term "six-feet-under" is used for a reason.

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dcapp 0

dig a bigger hole? that was so dumb he would never be able to dig deep enough to find something buried!!

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