So, do you lie to your children too?
Very, very rarely, much more often I do not finish speaking. For example, with an explanation of where the son was born.
I came up with a story that dad gave mom a seed. Mom planted a seed in the belly where you grew up from her.
I haven't got into the details thankfully yet. But when I told my daughter,
You are the best thing I have ever made.
She replied,
"You didn't make me, I was in Mummy's belly."
I left it there. :D
This is how the role of the father is minimized from childhood. And without us, well, nothing :)