Mom Has Top Tier Technique for Safeguarding Her Ice Cream From Kids: 'Lie'

A girl from Texas has gone viral after she was easily convinced to believe in an unconventional ice cream flavor.

Selena Moncayo filmed a conversation between herself and her 6-year-old, where the mom came up with a quick-thinking response to her daughter's question.

Eyeing up her mom's strawberry shortcake ice cream popsicle, Arlettzey Carolina takes off her pink headphones in a clip on TikTok.

"Is that spicy ice cream?" she asks.

Arlettzey Carolina asking her mom whether she was eating spicy ice cream. As soon as the then 5-year-old clocked the color, it was game over. @selenamoncayo

"Because it had red on it, she thought it was spicy," Moncayo told Newsweek. Spotting her opportunity for some fun, the 29-year-old said yes.

Wide-eyed and a little disgusted, Arlettzey Carolina cringed and responded: "Oh my God, that's crazy."

She placed her headphones back on her head and impersonated the Columbian singer-songwriter Shakira by singing, "Shakira Shakira Shakira".

"I never told her it was, I just agreed when asked," Moncayo added.

Initially, the mom of 3 was recording her daughter to get her to repeat the catchy self-referential phrase on camera, as she'd been walking around the house with her headphones on.

"Her headphones weren't even plugged into anything, she just had that song in her head," she said.

Moncayo wrote on the text overlay: "When you tell them your ice cream is spicy so they won't ask for any."

The clip has been viewed 16 million times and received over 3 million likes. Thousands of viewers commented on the little girl's antics, finding her unplanned response hilarious.

"Kids are so random I can't," one user wrote. "She said ok beautiful liar," another commented in reference to one of Shakira's hit songs.

Many others shared that the mom's hack wouldn't work on certain members of their family.

"My niece would oddly say 'I wanna try'. Nothing scares her away," one user laughed.

"My little siblings would have said, 'It's not spicy to me'," @pgh.ciaraa commented.

Moncayo wrote in the caption that the video is repost from her most viral video on TikTok, adding that, "Sometimes it's OK to lie to your kids.

"I remember seeing this the first time [and] it still is just as funny," another wrote. "We quote it regularly in our house," Moncayo replied in the comments.

"The reactions on TikTok have been so funny, and it's really awesome seeing how everyone has been reacting to her in a positive way," she added.

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