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HTTP:: Parents Lie to Their Children Extremely Often
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According to a new scientific investigation, mothers and fathers distort the knowledge they pass on to their children considerably and systematically. And we're not talking about religious indoctrination here, which parents practice willingly, but about stretching the “truth” to extensive lengths. The paper reveals that, oftentimes, the adults come up with all sorts of methods to instill certain behaviors in their children, and invent things from mythical animals to peculiar consequences for certain actions. “We are surprised by how often parenting by lying takes place. Our findings showed that even the parents who most strongly promoted the importance of honesty with their children engaged in parenting by lying,” Kang Lee, who has been a researcher on the new study, says. The scientist holds an appointment at the University of Toronto, in Canada. It seems a bit ironic, psychologists say, that the individuals who want to make their children grow to be honest adult!
s would use lying of all things to do that. And lying to children may not be as harmless as parents believe. According to Lee and the UT science team behind the investigation, it may be that such excessive lying sends mixed messages to the children, who are simply trying to understand how to navigate the social world at...
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