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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 261995" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Oh Vickie, I'm so sorry that your difficult child is lying like that. It can be so disruptive to everyone and everything. Even when everyone around her is aware that she is telling lies, it's so hard to get to the truth, because the story morphs by the second.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child has done the same thing for years and years. He spews lies practically without thinking, and even when it's clear that he will be "busted" for it. Sadly, I don't have a lot of advice as to how to make it stop, because we've never found anything that worked.</p><p></p><p>The one thing we have done is instituted a fact-check policy. In effect, everyone who deals with difficult child has been instructed to independently corroborate everything he tells them. If they're unable to back up something he says with independent proof, then it's assumed that he's lying. There's no real discipline or punishment that we've found effective, only the natural consequences that no one believes him, no matter what the circumstance.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if it's possible to put something like that in place for your difficult child. It doesn't curb the lying, but it does lessen the likelihood that you'll get taken in by it.</p><p></p><p>{{{hugs}}}</p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 261995, member: 3907"] Oh Vickie, I'm so sorry that your difficult child is lying like that. It can be so disruptive to everyone and everything. Even when everyone around her is aware that she is telling lies, it's so hard to get to the truth, because the story morphs by the second. My difficult child has done the same thing for years and years. He spews lies practically without thinking, and even when it's clear that he will be "busted" for it. Sadly, I don't have a lot of advice as to how to make it stop, because we've never found anything that worked. The one thing we have done is instituted a fact-check policy. In effect, everyone who deals with difficult child has been instructed to independently corroborate everything he tells them. If they're unable to back up something he says with independent proof, then it's assumed that he's lying. There's no real discipline or punishment that we've found effective, only the natural consequences that no one believes him, no matter what the circumstance. I don't know if it's possible to put something like that in place for your difficult child. It doesn't curb the lying, but it does lessen the likelihood that you'll get taken in by it. {{{hugs}}} Trinity [/QUOTE]
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