Lying Children

First of all I have 5 children and yes of course they lie. Think about when you were a child and lied to your parents to get out of trouble. It is common and does not mean that you have bad children. Tell your friend to remember back to when she was the child and think of the lies she told. It did not make her love her parents any less it is just human nature to want to stay out of trouble we are even guilty of this as adults. Think about the last time you were stopped for a traffic violation did you totally tell the officer the truth or did you tell a little white lie? Your friends children must be too good of liars if she has never caught them in a lie. She is just one of those plp that feels it is easier to believe a lie than confront the truth. Unfortunatly this is not good for her or for her children. Yes, I have had a friend who did this, her child could lie straight to her face and not even flinch she would continually believe him even when it was obvious that what he was saying wasn't true. This behavior that he continually got away with at home left him to get into trouble with the law later in life and he could never understand why they didn't believe his lies like mommy always did. I tried to help my friend and pointed out the obvious when I knew he was lying but it only seemed to upset her. Good luck with your friend and if you are close enough to her to point things out please do so it may help the child in the long run. Good luck

She'll get a wakeup call one of these days. One of her childen will lie to her and it will be so blatant that she'll not be able to ignore it any longer. I agree with you, it seems like she sees her children as perfect. She's not doing them any favors by thinking that way. How will she help them to overcome their faults and learn from their mistakes unless she takes off her rose-colored glasses?