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I fully support lying to kids to make your life easier.
Now for the record, I'm not a parent so you definitely shouldn't take parenting advice from me. But this seems like a harmless little fib to save yourself a ton of work and stress, so it sounds like it's worth it to me.
Jason Kelce is going to have a lot more time at home these days after the veteran center retired from the Philadelphia Eagles after 13 seasons. And there's no doubt that he's looking forward to having more time at home with his wife Kylie and their three daughters, Wyatt, Elliott and Bennett.
But of course his daughters are now at the age where they're starting to want pets in the house - so Jason has had to get creative to avoid adding to the family.
The elder of the Kelce brothers revealed on his
New Heights podcast, which he hosts alongside his brother Travis Kelce, that his kids have been asking to get a cat. And rather than just telling them no, he decided to tell them a little white lie to get them to stop asking:
"I just keep telling our girls that cats are poisonous. So that they don't want cats and I don't have to deal with having a cat. Make them terrified of them."
Ok, not a terrible plan. But he doesn't stop there:
"Kylie is like, 'They're not poisonous, your dad is lying to you.'
I'm like, 'Listen, if you have a cat the government will come and take it from you because they're so lethal. I mean, they could kill you. They don't even have to bite you, just them licking you. You fear their tongue. It has little needles on it.'
Then I pull up pictures of a zoomed in picture on a cat's tongue, and it looks like needles, and it terrifies the f*ck out of them."
Yeah, that should keep them from wanting cats. But as Travis points out, Jason grew up with cats in the household, so I'm not exactly sure why he's so opposed to getting one for his kids other than the extra work and the fact that cats are assholes (this coming from someone who has both a cat and a dog).
When asked why he tells his kids that they're poisonous, Jason had a pretty straightforward answer:
"So that they don't want cats and I don't have to deal with having a cat, and make them terrified of them."
Now, obviously Travis is dating a pretty famous cat owner, so he then asked his brother what was going to happen when his kids went to somebody else's house and saw a cat:
"That's fine. That sounds like a that person's house problem."
Fair enough.
Despite the objections from Travis, it sounds like Jason's sticking by his plan:
"It's whatever. They'll find out. I think lying to your kids is important. I think it's great. I think it's genius. It's a genius ploy."
And when a fan asked what was going to happen when Jason's kids finally get to meet Taylor Swift's cats, it sounds like dad was looking forward to witnessing that:
https://twitter.com/JasonKelce/status/1831330515959345614
Sounds like good parenting to me.
