At dinner last night DS decides to tell us why he put the cat in the oven last week
Apparently he saw out of his window, the farmer in the farmhouse across the road, close all the doors and put the cat in the oven, but because the cat's tail was small it fitted.
There is no way DS can see into the farmers kitchen, we cannot even see their windows.
So I say, are you sure DS?? How on earth did you see into the farmers kitchen? He tells me the farmer moved his kitchen into his living room so it was closer
So I say to him, well, that's not true is it, a good story, but nonetheless, just a story. He refuses to admit its not true.
Trying to explain to him about lying (he knows in the sense that if he does something or Dd does what the truth is and what a lie is, but seems to be confused about things that didn't happen, not things that did)
I ask if DD knows the story of the boy who cried wolf, she says no, DS says 'I do', so I ask who told him it, sure he doesn't know, he says the boys mum told him. She said to him 'Don't talk to that boy over there, he is crying about the wolf' again, try to get him to agree that that's not the truth, but he seems convinced it is.
It's not a problem, as, like I said, it doesn't relate to his behaviour with reality, just stories he tells. Does he really believe these stories himself???
He is 3 and a half btw, not at nursery.