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Just to clarify.
I purposley dis not use the term “lie” in talking about accusotory children.
There is aconsiderable evidence to the fact that children below a certain age do not lie about things in the way adults understand lie rather their perception of reality is different then an adults and hence when they say over a story in many instances they do not think they are lieing in the conventional sense.
I don’t think this is news to any parent of small children.
This is one reason why it’s quite disingenous when “experts” qoute studies showing “children don’t lie”.
Yes they do not lie in many cases, however they are not telling the truth as we understand it to be.
Again most parents of small children understand what I am saying as it’s pretty much self understood.
But then again most of the “experts” that are the originators of most of these “studies” had very few children of their own and even if they did they spent very little time with them to know many of the things that many Jewish Parents who grew up in families with numerous siblings, cousins ect.. take for granted.
So they had to spend millions of dollars and make numerous mistakes trying to find out a little bit of what we know.
Sort of like President Barack Obama telling a buisnessman how to turn a profit, with equal results.