How to Explain to Kids the Difference Between Tattling vs. Telling standard
It’s NOT Tattling If It’ll Get Someone Out of Trouble Most of us, especially boys, grew up hearing from parents, siblings, teachers and peers that we should never, ever be a tattle tale. Nobody likes a tattle tale they said! Later when something serious happens and we never told our parents about it, they ask us, dumbfounded, why we never told them. Their earlier admonitions about being a tattle tale apparently forgotten or expecting that a child should just know when it’s tattling and when it’s not. It’s up to adults to make the distinction clear to children. Unless a distinction is made clear to children, a distinction between tattling for fun and telling to prevent a harmful situation, children ...
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