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How do you handle difficult child's lies?
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<blockquote data-quote="bystander" data-source="post: 41629" data-attributes="member: 3614"><p>I agree with the PP.</p><p></p><p>One of our older easy child's was quite an artful liar. We wound up having to do excatly what the PP did with her child. Verify everything - and I love the line that the teachers don't have <em>time</em> to lie.</p><p></p><p>If your difficult child is lying to your husband - you need to become a united front with husband to plug <em>that</em> leak. Again it's all verification. husband should say to your difficult child, "OK so if I check with your mother - she'll say this is what happened?" And then he should check with you either way.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child 6 year old is learning the lying ropes now. He is experiencing lying will get him into <em>bigger</em> trouble than the actual bad deed itself.</p><p></p><p>Children of divorce unfortunately are usually the most accomplished liars. That is because they want to stay on the "good" side of each parent - and that often means making the other parent look bad. One more reason for divorcing parents to make the effort to be civil and decent to one another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bystander, post: 41629, member: 3614"] I agree with the PP. One of our older easy child's was quite an artful liar. We wound up having to do excatly what the PP did with her child. Verify everything - and I love the line that the teachers don't have [i]time[/i] to lie. If your difficult child is lying to your husband - you need to become a united front with husband to plug [i]that[/i] leak. Again it's all verification. husband should say to your difficult child, "OK so if I check with your mother - she'll say this is what happened?" And then he should check with you either way. My difficult child 6 year old is learning the lying ropes now. He is experiencing lying will get him into [i]bigger[/i] trouble than the actual bad deed itself. Children of divorce unfortunately are usually the most accomplished liars. That is because they want to stay on the "good" side of each parent - and that often means making the other parent look bad. One more reason for divorcing parents to make the effort to be civil and decent to one another. [/QUOTE]
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