Parenting and Lying

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(04-26-2016, 11:08 AM)Au165 Wrote: You can do whatever you want with your own kid, but when your kid starts telling other kids at 5 years old there is no Santa be prepared for your kid to become a social leper. There will be consequences for treating your child like an adult while they are children ,and that could possibly be their inability to relate socially with their peers.

It seems that door swings both ways. Some parents treat a five year old more like a ten to fifteen year old than a five month old, and seem to have good results. The case can be made that these kids relate better with peers, are more tolerant, mature faster, do better as adults, and are impeded only by the infantiizing perpetrated by others on their own kids.

There are many ways to rear a child. The majority is not always right. I mean, centuries ago it was common for husbands to beat and rape their wives. Just because most did it doesn't mean it is or was a superior way to conduct a marriage.