Many children love to lie, make up or embellish stories. There may be several reasons why they are lying. Let's name the four main ones, and then we'll try to identify the signs of lies.
Instructions
Step 1
A child may deceive you for lack of attention and love. If you work too hard and put your grandparents on raising your child, you get some pretty good stories.
Step 2
The craving for embellishment and lies is manifested in children suffering from chronic diseases or having undergone diseases and operations. Such a child skillfully draws a parallel between lying and illness, because during the illness he is taken care of.
Step 3
Children lie to get rewards or to avoid punishment. For example, a child may say that he brushed his teeth or that he cleaned a room even though he didn’t.
Step 4
There are children who fantasize and embellish reality in order to diversify the reality that is boring for themselves. In this case, the child should not be punished, because such a fantasy contributes to the development of imagination.
Step 5
If you ask your child a question, and he repeats the last phrase after you, know that the child is lying. By this repetition, he buys time for a plausible answer.
Step 6
If the child looks away during the conversation or avoids eye contact altogether, he is hiding something from you.
Step 7
If a child's facial expression changes instantly, it means that he is hiding true emotions from you.
Step 8
If your little one makes any uncontrollable or involuntary gestures (scratching his nose, eyebrows, fiddling with buttons, or scratching his neck), he is worried.
