Lying in childhood can be a common thing for every child, but if it becomes a habit for your child, then it can be worrisome for every parent. There can be many reasons for lying, such as fear, high ...
What emotion drove it? Fear, embarrassment, guilt? If you knew your honesty would be met with empathy instead of anger, would ...
Lying is an incredibly important skill. But it is pretty tricky and depends on a basic cognitive capability that young children lack and need to develop. You may have to teach your children how to lie ...
As the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, I am increasingly exposed to the alarming (yet adorable) reality of early childhood lying. A couple of months ago, my husband came to me laughing. He was ...
If your sweet, usually honest kid is suddenly lying, you're not alone, nor are you failing as a parent. These reasons explain ...
"Come on now—Is that really the truth?" Source: AI/123rf Regardless of how conscious or contrived our lying is, all of us lie. In general, however, we lie only in situations where it seems a better ...
I was adopted at 13 into a family with five other kids. At 16, my adoptive parents sat me down and essentially said they were done being parents. They asked me to move out. They had kicked all the ...
"Our lying is buying us time — a precious and limited commodity that we want as our own," the author writes. btrenkel via Getty Images Living alone when you’re my age requires lying. There’s no way ...
MISSOURI CITY, Texas (KTRK) – A nonverbal child with autism in Texas was left lying on the floor for hours, crying in pain after a slip and fall at school. The 11-year-old boy named Kyle was ...