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Would you lie to your little ones?
I love honesty. I love being on the receiving end of it, even when it’s hard to hear. I love telling the truth in pretty much all circumstances. I grew up in a household that really valued honesty as a core virtue. Lying was the biggest sin there was. I’d like to have lived my whole life never telling a lie.
Then I had kids.
I always swore I’d never lie to them. Kids deserve the truth, I thought. But raising them has changed my mind.
Parenting has taught me many things: since having kids I’ve become better at running my household, managing my time, keeping my temper, taking care of myself. I can change a diaper, a tire, a lightbulb and my mind faster than I could before I had kids. But one of the big things parenting has taught me is that honesty is not always the best policy.
Parents don’t always tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to their kids. In fact, some of us are pretty adept when it comes to lying in order to get our kids to do what we want them to do. And nowhere are our fibs more fantastic than at the dinner table. Whether we are trying to convince a picky eater to try a new food or to lay off a favorite one, breaking out the bogus is sometimes the easiest way to get our way. Continue reading »
The holidays are always ripe for the pro-Santa and anti-Santa group to go at each other in the grand tradition of parental sniping.
But here’s one I’d never heard before: folks who don’t want Santa “taking credit” for the gifts they’ve lovingly chosen and wrapped up for their children. Continue reading »
Most of us will admit to lying to our kids on occasion. We make up stories about fairies who pay money for teeth and praise even the sloppiest artistic efforts. These parental fibs are rare and motivated mostly by a desire to make our children happy. Or are they? According to a recent study, parents lie to their children more often and about more things than you might think. And their motivation for bending the truth isn’t always altruistic. Continue reading »
We have a new winner in the really crappy parenting category: a jobs examiner blogger found this piece of work on Craigslist. A dad is advertising for an actor to take their dog for a walk, then come back and tell the kids the dog took a hike. Continue reading »
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