About A Child's Compulsive Lying Children lie. That is a fact most parents would attest to. They just do.
Children exaggerate, twist the truth, hide the facts, manufacture stories, and deny the obvious.
Lying ought to concern us. Yet what concerns us most is when a child lies compulsively. By that we mean that a child lies frequently or for no apparent reason. Parents subject to compulsive lying become suspicious and distrustful of their children, and the children conversely become more unruly and more dishonest. Once the cycle of lying and distrust is in full swing, it is difficult to find a single way in which the cycle may be stopped.