Like adults, children *will*encounter people who lie to them. That's unavoidable, and probably not a bad thing in small doses! Unfortunately, many children do not have a *single* adult consistently present in their lives who is fully or near-fully honest with them.https://twitter.com/JosephDise/status/1041658323911798784 …
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indeed. if you are inadvertently raising a kid who's "half Vulcan" shit like lying about santa (vs just playing linguistic games) is a canary to us. you can do it maybe twice at most before we forever take everything you say with at least a grain of salthttps://twitter.com/ctzn5/status/1041728508500869122?s=21 …
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Obviously false statements are auto-game territory ("I'm as big as a house! I crush cars under my feet! RAWR!" <chase ensues>) & linguistic trickery can be a more sophisticated game, but I do think the way most parents "do" Santa crosses a line we should try hard not to cross
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