I have a ten year old daughter who is a persistent story teller, I don't really want to use the word liar, it may be the simplest thing she is telling you but she has to embellish every story with obvious untruths, e.g Today she has gone for a trip to the hospital to look around the emergency dept. and to have a talk on first aid and safety followed by getting a finger in plaster, my other two older children have both done this. Anyway when she told me about this trip she said they were all going to have blood tests, do operations on dummies and then help out on the wards. But really she cannot tell you anything without these embellishments and she would rather be fed to alligators than ever admit she had done something wrong always blaming her siblings even if you catch her red handed
What I want to know is do I allow this and just leave her to it, or do I stop it and catch her out upsetting her in the process, sometimes I just say yes Harriet and sometimes I get fed up with her feeling she needs to do this and tell her I don't believe it and she shouts at me for never believing her and stomps off. The problem is I find it hard to believe anything she says so when she accuses her siblings of doing things or saying things to her and they deny it I tend to believe them as they rarely tell untruths.
Alison
What I want to know is do I allow this and just leave her to it, or do I stop it and catch her out upsetting her in the process, sometimes I just say yes Harriet and sometimes I get fed up with her feeling she needs to do this and tell her I don't believe it and she shouts at me for never believing her and stomps off. The problem is I find it hard to believe anything she says so when she accuses her siblings of doing things or saying things to her and they deny it I tend to believe them as they rarely tell untruths.
Alison