"The Magi do not bring gifts to bad children," "the cuckoo will come and eat you," "the babies come from Paris," "you are so skinny that a strong wind will come and you will fly away" (they told me that. as a child), "if you twist your eyes you will be cross-eyed forever", and thus a long list of white lies that we tell our children.
What father has never told a little lie to his son? I think we have all turned to them. According to a survey of fathers and mothers in the United States, parents tell our children an average of 3,000 lies throughout their childhoodAt least one every day.
The funny thing is that most of the white lies that are told to our children, our parents also told us when we were little and they were our grandparents.
Telling lies, no matter how pious, is the most common way of deceiving others in everyday life. Why do we lie to our children? Well, most of the time because we believe they are not prepared to know certain things, because we believe it is better to protect them from certain truths, because we believe they will not understand us if we tell them the truth or many times, simply, to get them to do what we want.
Although I will have ever told my daughters a lie, I think it is always preferable to tell them the truth and avoid lies, no matter how pious they are. Although nobody has been traumatized because they told him as a child that the children came from Paris, what is the need to lie? Isn't it much more reasonable to explain to them how babies are born in a language suitable for the child's age? Today, my oldest daughter asked me if the moms opened our bellies with a knife to get the baby out of the gut, I answered no (well, the caesarean section was not relevant) and I explained where the babies are born babies.
It is true that some parents are paralyzed by certain questions and prefer to avoid embarrassing situations by responding with white lies that ultimately lead to nothing, confuse children and generate that they also begin to tell lies.
