July 29, 2012
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Why Children Lie….the little turds!
Children are supposed to be nurtured by their self sacrificing parents. The grownups set the values and then reward their child’s behavior with trust. When the brats violate that trust, then some parents will digress to the child’s level and try to reason with their unripe minds. Other parents will apply a more aggressive approach such as hard love, tempered with a measure of discipline reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition. The first group of parents may tearfully chastise the young delinquent to a period of Time-Out, or with repeat offenders, Ritalin in their chocolate milk. The other group goes to jail. There is also another group of unique parents, who have never encountered any of these dilemmas…..but they must maintain, and on occasion, upgrade the CCI, (Cerebral Chip Implant) in their child’s brain under the new ‘Federal Health Plan’.
For those who have experienced these foibles of child rearing, the most difficult discipline is to stop and look at ourselves. Children learn from their parents. The evils we live by are always passed on to our broods. Our lazy way of speaking English, swearing, bigotry, sexual innuendos, off-colored slang and derogatory references to in-laws. But, it’s also the parents that instill in these developing personas, the fine art of lying! Adults lie everyday around their children. Dad farts and tells the child it’s a dead squirrel under the sofa, (unless there’s a dog). Parents tell young children that babies come from a place called eBay and delivered by the FedEx stork and that Santa lives at the North Pole on a melting ice shelf, (Liberal parents). Or, the Easter Bunny hops down the celestial escalator each year, (Conservative parents). The point I’m making, is that they grow up gagging on lies.
From morning till night, the barrage of inaccuracies and fraudulent facts are overwhelming. Eat this, or your legs won’t grow….don’t get near your cousin unless you want cooties….stick your finger up your nose again and one of your eyeballs will pop out!….you keep tugging at it and it’ll fall off!….I’m not hurting mommy, we’re just playing ‘rodeo’! Lies and more lies!
They are always watching and observing our hypocrisies. When Dad hugs the sister in-law he calls hooker breath, or, when Mom tells Granddad how wise he is and then later on the way home, tells her husband what a warped old coot his Dad is. Mom telling the kids that her and the mailman are just playing rodeo. LIES!!!!
Okay….what do you do for a child that’s perjures themselves constantly? Deny them food and comfort? Send them to an isolated jungle colony ran by hairy nuns? Gypsies?? Shipped them off to live with old coot Granddad? Donate them for medical experiments? My…..what a conundrum! You can no longer spank them without ending up on FOX News. The solution has always been there…..parents, just don’t lie. Make it one of your families most important values and preach it’s merits constantly. However, teaching your kids about politicians may well involve therapy.
Comments (12)
Somtimes a child tells stories to stay out of trouble …and sometimes to belong to a group they use tall tales to be popular
@SisterMae - It’s all about teaching the child selfworth. What is so sad is that so many teens never learn this.
There must be something wrong with me because I never tell my son those kinds of lies. However, I think sending children to be cared for be hairy nuns would most certainly straighten them out.
@UncCharlie - This is true I have tried to always make sure my kids always feel safe and they can tell me anything….and you would not believe what they feel safe in telling me they love to make me blush they think it is fun so I get all the sorted details…oh my but I would rather they feel safe and not feel like they have to lie
@Erika_Steele - Them nuns don’t take no crap….
I lie about Santa, it’s true. It’s funny how they always question
Santa, but never a bunny hopping through the house hiding hard boiled
eggs? I don’t get that. I did get my son to stop picking his nose by
telling him there was a monster up there that would bite his finger off,
but that wasn’t my lie, that was Shel Silverstien’s. You make a very
good point though… But FOX news would support corporal punishment, CNN
maybe, but not FOX. We, I mean my husband, talk a lot of politics in
this house. I really hope it’s not a recipe for therapy.
@SisterMae - ……but I would rather they feel safe and not feel like they have to lie……
That’s a perfect comment about the thing!
@lovelightwellness - Until the elections are over, my therapy is a 12-pack a week.
@UncCharlie Wow, you’re a lightweight! Any you might be drinking more when the elections are over. Just sayin’.
@lovelightwellness - Well, I’m a mess……I don’t want either one to win, so I’m gonna stay drunk a long time…… Hell, I’ll take Hillary!
So true! I still remember crazy lies my mom told me growing up. Like how if I kept chewing my nails they would build in in an organ in my body and I’d have to have surgery to get it removed. I lied constantly as I grew up because my parents taught me how so well. My husband thinks it’s horrible and doesn’t understand why I picked it up since all parents lie. I guess I just listened to my parents more than him, lol.
So, what’re you sayin’ here – the ice shelf isn’t really melting? It’s a lie?? :)