What Can You Do to Stop the Child Tells Lies?

Why do children lie? The children tell lies because they want to escape the blame, or try to avoid the consequences, or confuse the reality with the imagination, or the parents are overreacting  when the child is doing something wrong.  The following storytelling activity can apply to a child over the age of 3 years old aim at helping the child to distinguish between imagination and reality. 
 
Steps:

1. Find a storybook (such as "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear") which has got a big liar character.
2. After you finish speaking the lines from a chapter, you ask the child to repeat the content verbally from his understanding.
3. When the child is repeating the content, you help the child to pick which area of the content is related to lying.
4. Encourage the child to tell you his understanding of honesty and lying.
5. Discuss with the child for what he/she can think about some more terms related to telling the truth, telling lies, and deceiving the others.
6. Ask the child to tell you what does he/she thinks the difference between tell tall tales and tell lies.
7. Your job is helping the child to tell his thinking and don’t judge the child.
8. You ask the child to tell you the overall experience from the game. This help the child to think back the whole process and understand describing reality is different from the wild imagination of nonsense.

(credit via Heike Baum)

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