7 Year Old - Lying

[peacemakeruk]

Hi,
My DS has started lying to me and my husband (his stepdad). Its about the silliest of things but he didn't used to do it. Nothing has changed recently for him so we can't work out why he's doing it. Problem is my DH has told him that if he does it much more he's not going to trust him anymore which I think is an awful situation to be getting into. Do you think this is just a silly phase he's going through?

Thanks.

Is he telling fibs or serious bad lying? I always told my 2 the boy who cried wolf story when they were little and they have never lied (touch wood!) aged 8 and 9 years now.
Alot of their friends at school tell fibs , like saying they have this or that super toy/game/film at home to impress but not big full blown lies I suppose.

It is fibs and we've also explained to him that if he keeps doing it the time will come when something will happen and we won't believe him. Doesn't seem to have go through. He's normally such a sensible boy too.

I have a seven year old boy who suddenly started lying about anything and everything. It got to the point that we couldn't believe anything he said. However, we have now established that he is doing it to make the world more interesting, not for any malicious reasons. So when he is blatantly telling lies or making up stories we just say, "That's J's world, isn't it?" (J being his name)and he grins and we all carry on as normal. I think we have reached the point where we can trust him not to lie about important things.

Maybe something like that would help?