My step daughter (4) keeps lying to her mum about what happens when she is with us and I don’t know how else to address it with her. Its not little lies they are quite serious allegations including- Daddy shut the car door on my head, I locked her in the bathroom and most recently we lock her in her bedroom. None of which are obviously true. Last time it happened I sat down with her and asked when the incident had happened and she said she didn’t know so I said maybe it didn’t happen then did it. I told her that you can’t make up stories or say things that aren’t true because people could get in trouble and the police will come and its hurtful and makes us sad and we can’t trust her… and she seemed to take it on board and had no issues until this week.
Does anyone know why she could be doing this (its not that she doesn’t want to be with us cos she always has a good time and cries when its time to go home) or how to go about talking to her to stop it, as its going to get to the point where social services are called (weve got our own baby and I work 2 jobs involving children and DBS so it really would be disastrous) and im not sure how else to talk to her other than to explain its very serious and we could get into big trouble.