My Sons a Pathological Lier What Do I Do?

My Sons a Pathological Lier What Do I Do? Cassiphone06: My sons 6 will be 7 in april he has had problems since he was 3 bipolar, mood disorder and lots more . But the one thing I can't take more then anything else is all the lying. Everyday all day to me to his dad, friends, school . My son will do something wrong get into trouble and 10 mins later do the samething again has no remorse for anything he does or who gets hurt. He started a new school recently has been there a month now and has not brought home any homework but has been saying teacher isn't giving any . Went to school today to talk to teacher gave me a months work of homework with copies of notes that she has sent home . My son will go to the work of throwing away all his homework lying to teacher about why it's not turned in with signature. Just keeps getting worse I don't know what to do anymore. Someone please help!!!
Re: My Sons a Pathological Lier What Do I Do? Freckles: Take him to Church.

Every Sunday Morning (At least)

Some Chrches have a Specal Class for the Kids.

They teach them stuff like that. To be honest
Re: My Sons a Pathological Lier What Do I Do? MikeB: Hi.
Not to be disrespectful... but I don't think religion or going to church will solve the problem, if it would help at all it would probably only "cure" the symptoms, not the cause... although with some people it might work (I don't know)
I suggest a therapist specialized on children... a psychologist/psychotherapist rather than a psychiatrist, because this is not something to be approached by medication, there's probably a psychological reason for his lying... underdeveloped social skills (problems during socialization), maybe his lying has been rewarded ( and thus conditioned). Bipolar disease can have this effect, too, especially when it set in during socialization, because it's the phase where children learn social skills, they learn which behaviour is rewarded, which is punished... and bipolar disease might well have "skrewed" this process...

Lying is a form of social behaviour and thus it is teleological (i.e. directed towards a certain end/goal), people who lie want to achieve something by this... this end/goal/achievement might be an emotional or material reward, it might be the avoidance of punishment, it might be the avoidance of social commitment or it might even be based on a fear of trusting someone or being trusted, so that by lying they try to "drop out" of the trust-institution altogether...
Behavioural-therapy might really help...

But before you do that I suggest that you try to modify his behaviour yourself (if you haven't done that already) through talking, building up trust and the good 'ole reward/punishment-method (I'm not talking physical punishment or withdrawl of affection)... If this doesn't work.. have him see a psychologist/psychotherapist behavioural-therapy...

Take care
Re: My Sons a Pathological Lier What Do I Do? Freckles: P.S.

Church is FREE

:)
Re: My Sons a Pathological Lier What Do I Do? C-Note: Amen