Anxiety and lying.

JDA_1990
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:20:21 +0000

First off, I’m sorry for the pain of your childhood. Too bad an adult didn’t see your circumstance and step in to try to help you. My daughter is shy so I know a little bit how hard that can be. She doesn’t lie, but sometimes when I ask her a question she refuses to answer me. The eyes just s…l…o…w…l…y glaze over! She has been like that her whole life. She doesn’t do it much, so I don’t make a big deal and it hasn’t been a problem yet. I figure to make too big of a deal of it may encourage her to do it more, and to me its pretty innocuous right now. How old is your daughter? That would matter in how I would handle it. The daughter is not destined to repeat the mistakes of the mother…