My child has just started school nursery and this week he told his class mates that mummy isn’t kind and mummy smacks him… this is absolutely untrue. I have never laid a finger on any of my children. We live in the uk and the law now states that smacking children is illegal so could do some serious harm. The headteacher phoned me and told me about what he had said and that due to the nature of the allegation it had to be escalated to child protection services and then onto the police. He is only 3, and I think he has gotten confused with “naughty feelings” as he calls them and when I try to talk to him about it he says “smacking, biting and shouting are naughty feelings”. I do shout sometimes but don’t we all as mothers!
My question is, is there a way of teaching him at the age of 3 that telling lies can cause problems or serious consequences. Are there any books or suggestions on how to handle this? I don’t want to feed words into his mouth as 3 year olds talk nonsense most of the time.
Any advice welcome, and please no hate, I'm already feeling victimised by this 