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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Truth
Message-ID: <166@unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 11:10:13 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.166
Posted: Wed Mar  6 11:10:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 10:44:42 EST
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

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>From <285@packard.UUCP>:
>
>	"We are contemplating a trip to San Francisco, and would like
>	some inout from parents experienced in this area ... Is it wise
>	(as has been recommended by others) to lie about the childs age
>	in order to pay no fare for him?"
>
>From <812@decwrl.UUCP>:
>
>	"How to you teach respect for the truth?  For one thing, by
>	being truthful ..."
>
In article  andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) writes:
>	I suggest that there are advantages to telling the truth about the San
>	Francisco-bound child's age beyond the question of whether the kid
>	needs a seat to themself.
>

We don't want to teach our kids to be fanatics about telling the truth.
After all, sometimes lying is very convenient.  The trick is teaching
the child to tell the truth to us, the parents, not that the child
should necessarily tell the truth to everybody else all the time.

		Frank Silbermann
		University of North Carolina