Feeding Children Lies Makes Them Grow Big and Strong- Lying to children from a young age is bad for the child's psychological growth.

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Feeding Children Lies Makes Them Grow Big and Strong

Feeding Children Lies Makes Them Grow Big and Strong

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3 April 2017

Feeding Children Lies Makes Them Grown Big and Strong

Lying is a common social phenomenon. In any social context, it presents itself as a factor to hijack any interaction. From a young age, introductions to the ethics of lying are conducted. Arguments as ancient as ancient as Greek philosophers often arise on whether lying in general is right or wrong – more specifically lying to children. A little lie here, a small one there, drizzle a bit of Santa Claus into the mix, and one ends up with the bad recipe for incredulity and mistrust. It’s that mistrust and damage to credulity that is a snowball that continuously rolls down the hill, getting bigger and doing more damage. There are generally two types of lies that are presented to children, ones that destroy morals and ones that are perceived as harmless or even helpful. The lies of moral destruction are clearly wrong; anybody with half a sense will know that, but the ones that are perceived as harmless or helpful can be silent and deadly. Small lies such as pretending to like an undesirable gift or saying that a child did a good job when he really didn’t might seem innocuous, but they are just as damaging. Starting that snowball of lying to a child might seem alluring with all the benefits that it holds, but looking through the viewpoints of scientists and researchers will reveal that lies introduced from an early age are damaging to a child psychologically. Many studies have been conducted to look at the effects, finding that a child’s moral understanding takes a wrong turn with age due to the increased amount of sheer lies that they are subjected to. As said age increases, so does the evaluation of others’ lying – meaning that children ends up being more inclined to tell lies themselves. They find a lie flowing off the tongue more often, their impression of severity becomes skewed, and mistrust presents itself between the child and parent.

One of the very first lies that are introduced to a child in his grueling journey to adulthood is the Santa Lie. Santa Clause is Bishop Nicolas in a red suit. Not the actual parent who did all the work, but a made-up entity that is built on a throne of lies. The parents themselves don’t support their own child lying, but what does the child think about the parent lying. As the child gets older, his or her moral evaluation of both lies and truth becomes submersed in doubt. One does not know said child’s evaluation without understanding their developments. White lies, ones that prove to be harmless and trivial such as the Santa Lie, are messages that confuse children altogether. Parents hope to teach morals such as lying is always bad, but at the same time cross their fingers and act deceitfully in order to make life easier. The child just ends up confused. Not all lies have negative consequences for the other person, and not all truths have positive consequences for someone else (Carson 1988). The delicate balance between a child’s moral understanding is impossible to determine and predict, but it does not stop people from trying to comprehend it.
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