My 16 year old step-daughter is a chronic liar who lies about important things (e.g., sexual acitivity) and unimportant things (e.g., food in her room). She comes from a troubled background and we just got custody of her about 14 months ago. Hubby and I have differing approaches when she lies and I would like to know your collective opinion of how to be approach this.
When we know she is lying, hubby prefers to just blurt out "Save it, I know you're lying, don't want to hear your crap". I, on the other hand, begin my case of showing her how I know she is lying, presenting the evidence to her, trying to get her to confess, etc. Suddenly I am in the middle of my very own case of "Law and Order" and I can't help but wonder if she enjoys all this focus I then have on her. Hubby says this is a huge waste of time and I am only frustrating myself (true, I guess). What would you do?
2007-05-29
14:24:11
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