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How to respond when children lie about breaking rules

I found out my daughter has been lying to me for months about where she goes after school and I'm torn between grounding her forever and wondering if my rules are too strict.

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The discovery of deception forces a parent to question whether their boundaries created safety or simply drove behavior underground.

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