What do you/would you say to a friend of your dc if they were obviously exaggerating/making up (relatively) harmless stories

[LadyPenelope]

Spent car journey the other day with dd and her friend (both 6). DD's friend spent the whole journey happily chatting but saying in authoritative voice all kinds of things which weren't true - not harmful lies just stories all presented as the truth. Including - DD points out nice house, friend says her friend lives there. DD has new shoes, friend says she has new pair (silver high heels to wear with socks) but can't wear them until summer hols. She has XYZ for tea every Monday and that's what she will have when she gets home. (Long description of every item, repeated several times because we aren't paying attention!)

I had radio on in front and tried not to listen ... 50% didn't know if it was true or not, but suspected by tone it wasn't... 50% definitely not true.

DD was getting a bit irritated ... saying , that's not true, why is XXX making up stories Mummy etc. Didn't know what to say really ... don't want to encourage DD to think it's OK, and also didn't want to get into discussion with DD's friend about what was true and no ... so instead ignored it and felt like I was letting DD down a bit.

If DD had been making up exaggerated stories I would have probably said something. Also, don't want DD to believe everything she hears ... she needs to be able make her mind up about what's true or not ... which interestingly she did and asked me that night why her friend made up all that stuff that wasn't true.

So what would you do/say - Did I make the right call?

yes, I think you did. Not your responsiblity to handle this girl's overactive imagination. I think I'd just tell dd that sometimes some people make things up and it's a bit silly.

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I had a friend like that it continued well into adulthood.

Thanks Edam - that's a good way for me to handle with DD.
Oops - you are right there is no major harm ... just can't help feeling it's a irritating if it's presented as the truth/more interesting than real conversation. It's definitely fun making up stories and DD does that all the time (constant make believe with all her friends playing all sorts of games which last for days, story writing at school, telling stories to each other at bedtime.) I guess the reason I found it irritating was they weren't playing make believe ... they were chatting normally.
Nogoes - much more irritating in an adult for sure ...