2006-07-20 08:15:34 · 10 answers · asked by Lisa B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
And if so, why do you think that is
2006-07-20 08:15:57 · update #1
No, they do not. At that age, it's called "confabulation". It's actually a normal part of growth and development. Under the age of ten, children are prone to making up stories about how they wish things were, and tell those stories as if they represented actual events. As they approach adolescence, they, with the help of adults and older children, learn to diffrentiate between what can be termed wishful thinking and fact.
Children today, as did children of previous generations, always push the limits. They learn very early on that exceeding the limits brings consequences, many of them undesireable. And today's children, like yesterday's, will seek to avoid those consequences. They will lie. Whether or not they resort to lying to get out of trouble has nothing to do with how religious they are, nothing to do with societal pressures. It's a case of "Mama gonna whale my narrow behind and I gotta make her think I didn't commit the infraction!" When yo mamma, like mine used to do, says "I'm gonna tan your hide!" You grasp at any likely straw - cause having to eat your dinner standing up ain't no fun!
2006-07-20 08:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes they had fewer things to lie about. In a farming community go feed the chickens and gather the eggs. they either did it or they didn't. It has been said, "We have to remember more numbers in one day then previous generations came across in a life time." Of all the ten commandments lieing is the most often broken. By people who would never steal, commit adultry or be unkind to their parents. They see people do it constantly on TV
Hear their parents do it. Holidays are seeped in lies.
I mean come on Is there really a jolly fat man who flys through the sky pulled by tiny raindeer? Rabbits laying eggs or miracle on 44th street. It doesn't take them long to pick up on this.
2006-07-20 08:23:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its more common now. i also think that kids about the age of 10 have to lie to fit in and it is a big popularity thing to fit in. and they get into things they really shouldn't and they will lie to save their butts and it is not going to stop
2006-07-20 08:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every generation thinks that the ones' coming after it are 'closer to hell' than theirs were, hehe..
Know why? Because you are all older now and can see how YOU were when you were young! Haha. Human Nature has always been the same and always will be..
Don't worry so much, you turned out ok, didn't you? =)
2006-07-20 08:26:10 · answer #4 · answered by Shad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I definitely think they do. I think that the society we live in is more immoral than the society of 10 years ago. And parents are less attentive these days.
2006-07-20 08:20:14 · answer #5 · answered by ebonybutterfly4u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids lie now just as they did in the past.
2006-07-20 08:22:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. its soceity and the way people live now a days. there is more pressure for kids than there was 20 years ago
2006-07-20 08:19:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes cause they watch their parents lie so they think it is ok and its not
2006-07-20 08:20:27 · answer #8 · answered by SHELIA S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they do. They see it everywhere (so it is considered normal behavior) and there is apparently no consequence for that action.
2006-07-20 08:17:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, because they get away with it more, parents aren't allowed to punish them any more.
2006-07-20 08:19:01 · answer #10 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋