Parental Lying: Why It's Not Good
There is the great problem of double standard and having grown up in a non-Christian home wasn't easy. Having been lied to about Santa Claus, asking my parents for affirmation and having one lie after the other to "assure" me that Santa Claus exists, had damaged my trust. It didn't help to have other lying elders too, which is a huge problem. What I have noticed is that growing up, the typical parenting is, "It's okay to lie to our kids but not for them to lie to us." What most parents don't realize is that they are taking advice from stupid people like Dr. Spock's bad parenting. Children take whatever their parents say seriously. For them, their parents are the only source of truth they know which Satan knows for sure. If a child is to learn discipline, he has to learn it from the truth and no "white lie" can ever cover it. For a Santa Claus lying parent, for them, "Oh it's just a white lie... it was just a fantasy