Ein interessanter Artikel im New York Magazine: “Learning to Lie” (hier die Druckversion).
“Darling says 98 percent of the teens reported lying to their parents. …
Avoiding punishment is still a primary catalyst for lying, but lying also becomes a way to increase a child’s power and sense of control …
According to Talwar, parents need to teach kids the worth of honesty, just like George Washington’s father did, as much as they need to say that lying is wrong. …
The most disturbing reason children lie is that parents teach them to. According to Talwar, they learn it from us. …
Consider how we expect a child to act when he opens a gift he doesn’t like. We instruct him to swallow all his honest reactions and put on a polite smile.“
