Dads surprised laugh about how good his daughter is, at blatantly lying, makes this

She is going to be serious trouble in about 10 years.
Lying comes naturally to her, and dad is encouraging it.
This is like playing rough with your pit bull/mastiff puppy, teaching it to bite people. Sure, it may be cute when they're little, but it's also just begging for real problems later.

Lying comes naturally to ALL kids.

As for dad "encouraging" it, you have no idea what took place after the camera was turned off. The kid is probably in the hospital right now with belt marks all over her back and a couple of missing fingers.

Not true. It never came naturally to me. I've never been a good or natural liar.

True, there may have been some parenting off camera, but I'm only talking about what we know....what we just saw....not what's possible but unlikely.

My mother liked to use large wooden hairbrushes as paddles before solitary confinement. I preferred dad and his belt.

You calling me a liar?

I'm saying you're mistaken.
If you repeat it with the same certitude, now knowing you may be wrong, then you're a liar.
Lies are intentional misrepresentation, not just being incorrect.

Children typically begin lying in the preschool years, between two and four years of age. These intentional attempts at deception may worry parents, who fear their child will become a pint-sized social deviant.

https://theconversation.com/why-do-kids-lie-and-is-it-normal-98948

I am not typical, never have been. I think you know this. ;-)

My brother lied....he invented an invisible friend who "made" him do anything he was caught doing. "Ockie made me do it." I never once tried that.
I did try to lie about some things as a kid, sure, but I sucked at it and always told lies that were easily proven false, and my parents never let me slide. Between the punishments and never getting away with them, I consciously gave up on lying before I started preschool...I just sucked at it, it never came naturally, and it seemed to consistently increase the punishment I was trying to avoid.
Also, it made me dislike myself.

A) I don't know if you lie or not. I trust you regardless.

B) OMG! Your brother knows OCKIE too!

C) So, "She is going to be serious trouble in about 10 years." was a little overblown? Not really fact?

Trust...but verify. Regan got one thing right. I'm not a liar, but I'm certainly not always right either.

They've never met, he was lying.

Fact?....ok, no, prediction. She's a little girl, so it's a near certainty she's going to be trouble in 10 years under any circumstances, but more so if she's a practiced liar.
But, her dad is rewarding the lying with extra attention and laughter. Assuming that's normal for them, he's teaching her to lie, not teaching her to be truthful. At the very least, that degrades his ability to reasonably complain when the lies get serious....She's only doing what he taught her after all.

Thanks. That's what I was after. It wasn't clear.

Honestly, it was more joke than anything...but I stand by it nonetheless. Teenagers are trouble.

So what you're saying is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGHxIKa31Jk

I'm saying they'll throw up in your sink......

https://youtu.be/cSDCzm_srfc

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