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The truth is that parents lie

The truth is that parents lie

Honesty is the best policy, we teach our children - in between the lies. Even as parents promote and insist on veracity, they routinely bend or banish the truth to influence their kids' behavior and emotions, psychologists from the University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto report in a pair of new studies. Ref. Source 6

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I see that there are some benefits to at least withholding some of the truth from Children.


They do not need to know how much you are struggling financially or what your intimate life is like. They do not need to know every terrible thing and detail that is happening in your extended family (family members making terrible choices). If something is happening at work, you can tell you spouse, but the children do not need to know.

It is OK to give them age appropriate information, but it is also appropriate to withhold some information (essentially a lie).

The truth is that parents lie Reviews Consumer & Travel Family Culture

Yes but actually the article is talking about when parents lie with the purpose of getting the kids to behave in a certain way, one of the examples giving is telling your toddler that if they don't behave the police will come and take them. So basically the issue of the article is that these parents teach the kids not to lie but at the same time they're lying themselves.