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Your Child Is Lying to You — Here's Why Punishment Makes It Worse and What Rebecca Woulfe Does Instead
When a child lies, the instinct is to punish — and the punishment almost always makes the lying more sophisticated rather than less frequent. Rebecca Woulfe is a parenting expert who works specifically with the counterintuitive truth that the path to an honest child runs through connection and safety rather than consequences and correction. What she shares with Stacey Chillemi about why children lie and what those lies are actually communicating about their emotional needs, how to create the kind of nurturing and trust-based environment where honesty feels safer than dishonesty, and the…
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