Articles Tagged: lying
Homework howlers: Our children's embarrassing and exaggerated home life revelations
It's years since my daughter wrote in a school essay that she hates it when I smack her, but the memory still haunts me.
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Terrible Twos: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
Unlike my family, I am very restrained when it comes to yummy treats. What I mean is, I have a 'stop' button, whereas Ruby, Ava and their daddy do not. Consequently, I am the treats police.
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Terrible twos: Tall tales
Getty A while ago I wrote for this column pondering a time when it might occur to Ava she could fib. She'd always been ...
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Terrible Twos: Telling the truth
Is there a certain age at which children realise they can fib their way out of a spell on the naughty step and telling the ...
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When is it OK to lie to your children?
Do you remember your mum or dad saying: 'If I ever catch you lying to me...'? In my case the consequences were never actually ...
Continue reading >Do you lie to your children?
I routinely lie to my child. From telling him certain food is 'lovely' (marrow in this case, which we all know is foul) to ...
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Achtung Baby or The lessons of life!
My friend is eight months pregnant and looks like she's simply overdone it a bit on the currywurst. When I was eight months ...
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