{"id":205,"date":"2023-04-10T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2025-02-17T01:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:08:52","slug":"come-on-you-dont-say-an-adult-is-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/2023\/04\/come-on-you-dont-say-an-adult-is-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Come On&#8230; You Don&#8217;t Say An Adult is Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That &#8216;Aha&#8217; moment when your child has caught you red-handed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mommy Now&#8230; you said all liars will go to hell and you&#8217;re lying&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s common practice for parents to cook up a story for their kids just to pacify them, but is there ever any reason good enough to tell your child a lie?<\/p>\n<p>So, he wants to go out the door with you and you tell him, &#8220;I am coming back now, \u00a0I just want to buy you some biscuits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward that scenario a few years and you have a child who doesn&#8217;t trust whatever you say because well&#8230;they are used to you promising and never delivering!<\/p>\n<p>Losing your child&#8217;s trust should be motivation enough for you to never tell them a lie. Your child won&#8217;t be any worse off if you just tell them the truth about certain situations.<\/p>\n<p>For instance your child desires a certain gift and you can&#8217;t afford it, rather than letting her believe that you&#8217;ll buy that gift, why don&#8217;t you tell her instead that you may not be able to get it but you&#8217;ll do whatever you can when you can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, your child may be unhappy for a while but she&#8217;ll get over it. And even grow to respect the fact that you only say what you mean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/article-2655143-1eaa8fb000000578-537_634x421.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-208\" src=\"https:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/article-2655143-1eaa8fb000000578-537_634x421.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\u00a9 Copyright 2013 CorbisCorporation\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our kids watch us and look up to us to be an example to them. So, next time let&#8217;s keep our horror stories intended to scare them into submission (for example <em>&#8216;Ojuju Calabar&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0and the rest of our other scare tactics).<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, \u00a0they&#8217;ll soon outgrow them.<\/p>\n<p>Let your child&#8217;s heart safely trust in your words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/f2a37bfd8007dee88d8a0df868e75ac7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"https:\/\/strivingnigerianmom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/f2a37bfd8007dee88d8a0df868e75ac7.jpg?w=226\" alt=\"f2a37bfd8007dee88d8a0df868e75ac7\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your Fellow Striving Mom,<\/p>\n<p>Oluseye Ashiru<\/p>\n<p>This Post was first published on www.strivinigerianmom.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That &#8216;Aha&#8217; moment when your child has caught you red-handed. &#8220;Mommy Now&#8230; you said all liars will go to hell and you&#8217;re lying&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/10058a14-1ac2-40ae-bdc5-751d0b69da34.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16318,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/16318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiesarising.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}