Meet the parents who admit they "lie to their children" - by telling them their birthdays are on a different day every year.
Abbie Guy, 26, and her husband, Callum, 27, a Carlisle United footballer, made the decision to ensure both parents could be there on their children's special days.
The pair have two children - Ava, five, and George, three - but Callum's strict work schedule means he is often training or playing in a match on their actual birthdays.
Instead of letting it get in the way, Abbie says they decided to just tell the children their birthdays are on a different day - when both she and Callum are not working - so they can do something fun to celebrate.
And the couple say their kids haven't rumbled their lie as of yet.
Abbie Guy, 26, and her husband, Callum, 27, a Carlisle United footballer, made the decision to ensure both parents could be there on their children's special days.
The pair have two children - Ava, five, and George, three - but Callum's strict work schedule means he is often training or playing in a match on their actual birthdays.
Instead of letting it get in the way, Abbie says they decided to just tell the children their birthdays are on a different day - when both she and Callum are not working - so they can do something fun to celebrate.
And the couple say their kids haven't rumbled their lie as of yet.
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00:00We have lied to our children almost every year. We tell them their birthday
00:05is on a different date to what it actually is, with the main reason being
00:09that we just want to be able to spend their whole birthday with them and give
00:13them the best day. My husband has had to work away on quite a lot of my
00:17children's birthdays so he will be sad to miss it and the children will be sad
00:21that he's not there. So what we do is we tell them that their birthday is on a
00:26date that is convenient for us all, because at the end of the day it really
00:29is about who you spend your time with, that's the most important thing. Because
00:33both of my children are still so young they have no concept of time really, so
00:39if I tell them it's their birthday in two days they just think it's their
00:43birthday in two days. As they get older I totally appreciate that we won't be
00:47able to do this forever, however while they are still so young we want to make
00:51things as magical as we can with the whole family together.