Lying and Stealing as Fear Responses

Last week we talked about how "fear bullies our children into misbehavior" and we began to name certain behaviors from our kids that could have fear as their underlying cause. Behaviors like food insecurities, sleep struggles, separation anxieties, aggression, and more. After publishing that conversation, I had three people ask me about lying and stealing. So I am continuing our fear conversation and we're "chasing the why" specifically to tackle the challenge of lying.

But closely related to that often for some of our kids is also the behavior of stealing, so you're going to hear me bring up many examples of both in this episode and the "why" behind both behaviors is closely linked. We'll unpack more about stealing next week.

In this episode we tackle:

-lying as learned behavior

-lying as self protection

-lying better understood as "verbal impulsivity"

-lying as a fear response

-our own role in our child's lying

-how not to invite a lie

-how to help create new neural pathways to truth telling and honesty

-lying as highly correlated with FASD

-and more!

 

Episode references: 

Unpacking What We Bring to the Relationship training module (training credits offered): https://therestorenetwork.thinkific.com/courses/whatwebring