Why is Important to Not Lie to Our Kids

Hello fellow readers,

Why is important to not lie to our kids. A little about me I am a happy, sometimes sad, crazy, yelling mother that does things her way. Teaching my kids that being themselves is the best thing they can do and to never change who they are. Teaching them to always be kind, respectful and truthful. I enjoyed that our kids see us as real people.

My awesome kids have to deal with a truthful mom, I tell them things as they are in a way they understand honesty. It’s important to know how mom and dad were, because we are not perfect. We want them to see us as people that love them and will always be honest with them. Also I do not want my children to go through the same I went through growing up and realizing that people I admire were not who they said. This reason is why we decided to always be honest. The importance of having an open heart conversation with our kids, it’s to make them feel safe to ask any questions or concerns they have. This helps us as a family to continue to grow and be open with each other.

Now I am not saying go and not-lie to your kids and do the same we do in our home. What I am saying is think what things you will have prefer to know in your childhood, that made you look at people in a different way when you got older. Life it’s better if there is no-lies, our kids will thank us. For our family it has benefit from no-lies it builds trust, respect and it has help our kids to be close to us. The kids enjoy our stories, because they know there are no-lies and we will always try our best to be the best parents we can by celebrating failure.

I also read that when children find out that you lie to them the trust is broken. Lies encourage children to be dishonest their feelings get hurt and their worthiness gets crush. Now lying about Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny are not bad. These are more of an story like a mythical creature. We can handle these different as they get older; for example when my oldest started asking questions about Santa, we decided to write a letter to let her know that we are all Santa and she was now one too, we took her to dinner and gave her a letter with her own name and recognition, her face said it all.

In conclusion what I am saying is that lying to our kids is not good. For our family it has work and we do not regret any decisions about this topic. My recommendation is have honesty, it builds trust and creates a healthy family environment. It also builds respect from each other by seeing our own struggles. It’s important to learn to appreciate each other with our mistakes and failures. In reality who has never made a mistake in their lives. We all have and in a way it makes us the person we are now. I say let’s embrace our mistakes and no- lies to our kids will be need it.

This is my personal opinion, thank you for reading..