Lieing - It’s About Protection Not Truth

April 10, 2008

Why do teenagers lie?

It’s to protect what they are using to fill their void. Whether it be friends, drugs, alchohol or violence. If you take away their void, you take away their core identiity. You need to be prepared to replace it with something your teen will accept without struggle. Like my mom did with church and sports that I was into.

Another thing lieing brings is excitement, challenges, or avoidance. It’s exciting because they are getting attention, maybe even being yelled at to start the adrenaline. It’s a challenge for them to conquer to see what they can think of to pull the wool over your eyes and manipluate you into leaving them alone. Or they simply want to avoid the alternatives.

russ