Willes examines interviews from parents as well as their adult children about the lies parents tell their children while they are growing up. Willes, having analyzed these stories, then discusses three general reasons why parents fib: 1) to ensure that their children perform certain actions or observe certain behaviors, 2) to tease or play a practical joke on their children, and 3) to be imaginative and play with their children. Willes then evaluates the effects the impact these lies have (or have not) on the lives of their children. Created by Jennifer Willes while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 495 class during summer semester of 2002.