Lies and us - ParenthoodDiaries #68

The following words were the most said by kids to us at home in the recent past - "Jhoot kyun bolta hai?" (Why are you lying?)

That made us realise that they had grown up to understand what we would say to just pacify them in the given moment and what we would say genuinely. Hence, we reduced saying things to just pacify them, rather started telling them the practical facts.

Not that the facts are accepted by them immediately; many times we have observed that they appreciate that we have said the truth, even though they take time to come to terms with it. They take offence when we say something just to calm them down or temporarily satisfy.

Kids are always more grown up than what we think they are. It's us, who need to embrace that fact and approach them as genuinely as possible once they start understanding things.