09/05/2026
How you teach your child that lying is good without knowing
My six years old daughter had come home with the age long assignment on how l spent my last holiday. Just like we were taught that you write composition with imagination even if you were not there, her mother told her to write about where she wants or where she had been before because she didn't step out of the house throughout the holiday. But to our suprise the young girl just queried in a sharp voice " but l didnt go anywhere now". The mother tried explaining that its just a composition. The more she tried, the more she persisted that she didnt go anywhere as if to be asking why do you want me to lie now.
The smart mom, realising that what she has been teaching her that its not good to lie is playing out, she just conceded ans said, " Ok, oya write that you were home throughout and explain all the games you were playing with your siblings and friends"
The lesson here is that these children are too smart these days than our time, when we just swallow everything. I can't imagine how many stories we had told about how we spent our last holidays that never happened. We must be conscious of this little learning moment for them so we dont teach one thing and ask them to do another unknowingly and innocently. They pick these details and it forms their learning. Thank God this one spoke out, some will not, but they process the thought inside and make learning out of it.
Meanwhile, Sigmund Freud and other psychologists have established that most learning actually takes place within ages 1-5yrs and some says 1-7yrs. These learning are stored in the brain to be retrieved as they face similar event or occurrence.
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