When should I tell my daughter what is lie.
mahika posted on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:19
My 29 months old daughter makes a lot of stories. Now a days when ever she does something wrong she does not seem to accept it. Ahe will just say someone else did not.
I am not sure whether at this age she can understand that its telling lie. I try to explain her in different ways. This behaviour of hers just makes me wonder at what age can I tell about lie and how telling lies is a bad habit.
I think your daughter is too young to understand what a lie is. As per a research kids less than 6 years cannot understand the boundary between truth and fantasy. If your child is 'not telling the truth' then probably she understands that what she did was wrong and she is afraid of being punished. It is important for her to know that 'not telling the truth' is worse than the mistake she had done.
mahika, I think you should tell your daughter that she won't be punished if she accepts her mistake. That doesnt mean she should think that it's ok to commit the mistakes repeatedly and accept it. I agree it would be pretty difficult to make her accept to her mistakes, but its important to make her stop making excuses first.
mahika, first thing I would say that your daughter is too young to know about truth and lie. She must have seen such a behavior of not accepting the mistakes in some family member or some other kid. Another thing could be that she might be scared of getting punished.
You need to take her in confidence and tell her that she should not do wrong things and if done she should accept it. You should give her an example by doing so.