How To Prevent Your Kids From Lying

As parents, you need to provide a best environment for your children growth. As they grow up, they begin to absorb and imitate all adult manners on their daily activities. You will be amaze how quick they copy all our habits, good as well as bad.
With their biggest ability to learn fast, most kids lie when they observe adults especially the one whom they respect do the same. If you notice your kid with this habit, you should ask yourself whether you ever lie in front of them. If your answer is "Yes", it's about time we change this bad habit.
Environment is the key factor to develop your children habit. Of course, you always want your child to say the truth but remember, children also interact with other people in their daily life. It is virtually impossible to prevent your child from all the bad elements in life as you cannot be eyes and ears on him everyday. Where possible limit their exposure to this bad habits and explain the reason why to them.
You need to have constant communication with your children and show a good example how to speak with other people in a proper manner. Often, lying habit come from bad communication between parents and children.
When you have a situation where your kid lie to you, you should ask the reasons why they do that and give an explanation of their wrong habit. Do not punish them. There could be an underlying factor why they lie. Understand the root of the cause. When a child and parent have a good communication channel, lying will be a thing of the past.