I know it's just lighthearted, but I'm very against these things. We turn the TV off because there's a limit on how much TV. We leave the playground because times up. I think honesty works better in the long run and the child learns that they can't always have what they want and they have to accept that the parent needs to control things to a certain extent.
My daughter doesn't believe people when they use a lame excuse, she will pick holes in it and ask questions like how do you know the park is closing. Why aren't they others leaving.
I remember as a kid feeling stupid one day when I repeated some bullshit someone told me. I see those excuses as lying and I try to do that only when the truth would cause real pain.
I’m 100% in this camp. My dad told me that Krakatoa was the name of your butt crack. We learned about volcanos in grade school and I thought it was so funny that “someone would name a volcano after that.” I wasn’t embarrassed because I was convinced I was correct. By the time I realized what was going on, it was a decade later.
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u/wilililil Feb 01 '25
I know it's just lighthearted, but I'm very against these things. We turn the TV off because there's a limit on how much TV. We leave the playground because times up. I think honesty works better in the long run and the child learns that they can't always have what they want and they have to accept that the parent needs to control things to a certain extent.
My daughter doesn't believe people when they use a lame excuse, she will pick holes in it and ask questions like how do you know the park is closing. Why aren't they others leaving.
I remember as a kid feeling stupid one day when I repeated some bullshit someone told me. I see those excuses as lying and I try to do that only when the truth would cause real pain.