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Parents discouraging their kids from peeing in swimming pools will often perpetuate the lie that there's a special chemical added to the water that turns bright red (or blue, or purple, etc.) if ...
Only 22% of the children in the child absent condition told the truth at the first question (78% lied). When asked if their mom or dad had broken the puppet, 20% of the children in the parent absent condition lied for their parents, 33% of the children in the parent present condition lied, and 49% of the children in the child absent condition lied.
I wonder if the middle-aged children of aging parents yield to parental obfuscations and equivocations — the little lies we tell — because they may not really want to know about the forgetting ...
Numerous studies indicate that parents commonly use paternalistic lies to control emotions and influence behaviour of their children. This has been found to occur cross-culturally. [10] Tzeltal-speaking Mayans, a tribe living in a rural community in southern Mexico, frequently lie to their children. [11]
A lie-to-children is a simplified, and often technically incorrect, explanation of technical or complex subjects employed as a teaching method. Educators who employ lies-to-children do not intend to deceive, but instead seek to 'meet the child/pupil/student where they are', in order to facilitate initial comprehension, which they build upon over time as the learner's intellectual capacity expands.
The poll found that 5 per cent of parents said they lied, bent or broke the rules to help get their child into their preferred school, while a further 12 per cent said they had “slightly bent ...
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A false allegation can occur as the result of intentional lying on the part of the accuser; [6] or unintentionally, due to a confabulation, either arising spontaneously due to mental illness, [6] or resulting from deliberate or accidental suggestive questioning, coaching of the child, or faulty interviewing techniques. [7]