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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:41:01 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
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>On Jul 13, 8:43?am, Linda Fox <linda...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:49:43 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
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>> >On Jul 12, 8:25?am, Linda Fox <linda...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
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>> >> >A two year old is learning to lie or tell the truth. ?If a two year
>> >> >old sees its parents lie all the time, then the two year old is going
>> >> >to do the same thing.
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>> >> Ho-kayyyy - tell us please, because we'd love to know, how a
>> >> two-year-old can tell its parents are lying when it does not know the
>> >> truth itself. Unless it's by watching the nose grow longer and longer.
>> >A two year old is concerned about what works. ?If the two year old
>> >sees that lying is more effective in getting results than telling the
>> >truth, then that is what the two year old is going to start doing.
>> >Atheists generally reward untruth.
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>> Right, now just go back and read again, a bit slower this time. How
>> does the two-year-old know - from the example of his elders - that
>> lying is more effective, when - are you still there? - he does not
>> yeat recognise it as lying?
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>> Linda ff
>> In the beginning man created god in his own image- Hide quoted text -
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>What you are claiming is that a two year old cannot tell if something
>is true or untrue.  I take the position that a two year old is just as
>capable of discerning as anyone, but might have more of a tendency to
>try to say the answer he believes his parent wants to hear.

Have you EVER met a two-year-old? How does a two-year-old begin to
know when told, as my husband told my daughter one evening, that I had
gone shopping, when in fact I was singing in a concert. She sort of
knew what shopping was, he thought she would not have any idea why
singing (which she also recognised) might mean I would not be at home
when she asked for me. She happily accepted the explanation. How would
she know what he was telling her was not true? If you tell a
two-year-old that you're 21, when in fact you're 40, they have no
reason to disbelieve you. They almost certainly do not, at that age,
have a concept of lying in the first place. Trust me, I've had two of
them. Maybe by the age of three they begin to grasp it, but even at
four or five they will make no clear-cut distinction between telling
the truth and recounting their fantasies. 

Linda ff