“Is it normal for young children to lie? Or should I worry?”, wonders Cortney Warren, psychologist, in the columns of Your Tango. A specialist in psychology, she believes that the question does not really focus on normality, but on the intellectual capacities of the child. “According to psychology, children who lie are actually very intelligent”, she says. Dr. Kang Lee, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has indeed carried out several work on lies in children. According to his research, children are able to Start lying from the age of two.
A third of children are exercised at the lie from that age. From the age of four, this figure increases to 80 % of children. You will understand, If your child lies, it’s completely normal. “It turns out that lies is very common in young children. The fact that the lie is, if I dare say, a normal part of the child’s development is difficult to accept. Honesty is essential for long-term development of adults, can lie be healthy? There are reasons to believe that Lying in young children is normal, healthy and revealing good psychological functioning ”explains the psychologist.
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