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Is Your Child Lying to You? That’s Good
New York Times ^
| JAN. 5, 2018
| ALEX STONE
Posted on 01/05/2018 1:20:17 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:21:47 PM PST
by
Daddaroo
To: sparklite2
Puts him or her on the fast track to the Democratic Nomination
To: sparklite2
The child is an excellent candidate for New York Times staff.
To: sparklite2
The short answer is that they are smarter.I thought the short answer is that their parents didn't teach them to value telling the truth.
Of course, the libs want this to be true because they are congenital liars, which just shows how much smarter they are than everyone else.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:25:56 PM PST
by
NutsOnYew
(If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
To: Daddaroo
"This is a joke,right?" No, it's a New York Slimes discourse on how to help your child grow up to be a Democrat.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:28:57 PM PST
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: sparklite2
How can we get our children to be honest? In general, carrots work better than sticks. Harsh punishments like spanking do little to deter lying, . . . . . In one study, Professor Lee and the developmental psychologist Victoria Talwar compared the truth-telling behaviors of West African preschoolers from two schools, one that employed highly punitive measures such as corporal punishment to discipline students and another that favored more tempered methods like verbal reprimands and trips to the principals office. Students at the harsher school were not only more likely to lie but also far better at it. In other words, under the logic of this article, spanking your children makes them smarter.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:31:27 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: sparklite2
Only the left would praise liars. I would rather have a child with an average gpa and honest than a smart liar. These people are so blind to their own evil. This is part of their calling good evil and evil good. God have mercy on this country.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:31:49 PM PST
by
Linda Frances
(Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
To: sparklite2
Sometimes lying is actually very good if it saves another’s feelings too sensitive or make them feel good for example oh that dress looks great on you when I supposed to say I know it’s fucking ugly (the truth )
That’s what I always say the truth hurts. If you’re doing wrong
Having fun despite nattering nabobs of negativism telling you not to it’s perfectly all right
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:32:02 PM PST
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: DJ Taylor
Every time I think I could not have more dislike and contempt for the New York Times, they come out with something like this.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:32:15 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
To: sparklite2
I once gave a semi-satirical speech about the need to learn how to be good liar.
My point was that by studying how to lie and practicing it, you can greatly improve your ability to detect it.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:33:00 PM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
To: sparklite2
I must be dumb as a post. Can’t lie if my life depended on it. Oh well at least my customer for the last 25 years appreciates it.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:36:26 PM PST
by
dgbrown
To: sparklite2
How noteworthy is it that NYT bypassed this altogether:
Children who dont peek at the toy in the first place are actually the smartest of all, but they are a rarity.
So, it’s not those who lie who are smart; it’s those who are honest enough not to cheat. The ones falsely identified as smart by the NYT are those who cheat, but then aren’t so dumb as to not recognize that they are contradicting their behavior.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:40:37 PM PST
by
dangus
To: dgbrown
“Oh well at least my customer for the last 25 years appreciates it.”
If you’d mastered lying, you might have had more than one customer.
Sorry. Couldn’t resist capitalizing on your obvious typo.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:41:00 PM PST
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
Operating values for the NYT.
Once vetted, good material for a Trump Tweet.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:41:53 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: sparklite2
This thread reminds me of one of my favorite Mark Twain quotations:
“Always tell the truth, and you won’t have to remember anything.”
The quote came up during the Clinton presidency when people marvelled about how good a memory Bill had.
To: sparklite2
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:43:54 PM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: sparklite2
Is this a joke? Sure sometimes my has lied (about the dumbest stuff, too) and he’s also been punished for it.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:44:03 PM PST
by
pnz1
(#IMNOTWITHHER)
To: Daddaroo
This is a joke,right?
Yes. Unless I’m lying.
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:44:13 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Read the Sparklite Times)
To: sparklite2
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posted on
01/05/2018 1:45:04 PM PST
by
onedoug
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