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From: jmm@ski.UUCP (Joel M. Miller)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Telling the Truth
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 00:50:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 00:50:32 1985
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How do you teach respect for the truth?
How do you teach kids to tell the truth?
	By example?
	By reward & punishment?
	By describing the rewards (like being taken at your word)
	  that accrue to the honest?
Should truth-telling be made an issue between parent & child?
	Does doing so let the child know that you consider habitual
	  lying a serious matter?
	Does it cause rebellious lying?
What do you do if you're 90% sure your kid did break the vase,
  but s/he continues to deny it?
	Do you think "innocent until proven guilty" and risk, in
	  effect, teaching the kid that lying gets him/her out of
	  being punished?
	Do you risk punishing the innocent?
Do you punish the basic infraction & the lie about having done it
  as 2 seperate things (the lie more serious)?
How do you explain why its important to tell the truth?
How do you explain why we all sometimes lie?
Do kids understand what the truth is? (I am thinking of what appear
  to adults to be simple matters of fact.)


... Just some random questions that occurred to me when I found
the vase broken and the football in the livingroom.
Any thoughts?

-- 
Joel M Miller; Smith-Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciencs
2232 Webster St; San Francisco CA 94115
415/561-1703
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