My son shares custody with his daughters mother (alternate weeks) and he was complaining that his daughter (7 yrs old) is lying more and more. I know about this lying problem with her and I’ve raised 3 kids so I know kids lie. But this is excessive and something we work on with her on a regular basis. The real problem is that her mother lies so much and my granddaughter sees her lie on a regular basis. For example, whenever they go through the drive thru, her mother always gets the food then drives back around, gets in line, and tells the cashier they didn’t get all their food. She lied to me and my husband (ex) about my granddaughter not being able to come visit because she was sick and had to be taken to the hospital. Well I’m a pharmacist and my ex husband was a security guard in the hospital so we still have friends that work in many hospitals. We quickly found out she wasn’t in the hospital that her Mom gave us the first time. So then she tells me she’s in a different hospital so my ex husband went over there and she wasn’t there. Come to find out she was NEVER in the hospital and we just got lied to.

She lied recently, even going so far as to send an email out to family saying that she has some kind of stomach illness and she’s in pain all the time and that’s why she’s losing weight (didn’t appear to have lost a single pound to me).

There’s been more lies but what do you do with a child that’s lying and it’s probably because she’s around grown up who are lying in front of her? If I say, “your momma is a big liar; don’t be like her”, it’s not gonna go over well.