Babies learn to deceive before they can talk, new study finds | Tactics used include denial, feigning deafness, and hiding things (www.the-independent.com)

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[-] rollin@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Guess you don't have kids yet! By 18 months most kids are scooting around the house on their own two feet, but they can't talk very well. They can totally hide things if they think they're about to get told off though.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Guess you don't have kids yet!

Meeep, wrong. My child is older than 18 months and doesn't "deceive" me. How could they lie, if they still try to figure out that whole language business? I'm not "telling them off", though, so maybe they don't develop some kind of weird mitigation strategy.

That whole narrative reeks of that "babies are tyrants that need to be taught how to be proper people" bullshit.

And asking parents about the behaviour of their children is anything, but proper developmental science.

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