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Kids who lie: How schools are raising young people addicted to avoiding blame
Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something that’s practiced so heavily that our children master it by the time that they reach adulthood.
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Thank you for expressing something so rare as common sense.
We need adults with resilience who are not constantly protected by their parents from the consequences of their actions.
This is such an unpopular concept. Not PC at all.
Completely agree with the purpose of shame and how to use it effectively to build responsibility but totally disagree that it’s schools who are raising young people addicted to avoiding blame. As a principal, last time I looked, I wasn’t the parent raising the students at my school.
Quote from an 8 year old.
“A mistake means that you can learn to do better or be better, if you have a helper, and then you feel good”
Telling lies is a mistake that can be remedied.
It is difficult to teach about taking responsibility for actions when our leaders and role-models promote the opposite!
Taking responsibility for your actions starts in the home; to nurture kids to know that there are consequences for their action & peple can get hurt.
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