A common thing that may happen is that a child may use lies to make a specific situation work in their favor. Like when a kid says, “My mom lets me eat 5 cookies every day” to his babysitter when in reality she’s only allowed to eat cookies in the weekend. On the flip side, children also use lies as a way to get out of things they don’t want to do.

One of the things that a child might want is attention, especially if the lies they are telling seem to not make much sense or are inconsequential. This kind of behavior is normal and is also part of the process of them making sense of the world they live in.

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