Interesting study
https://news.yahoo.com/telling-children-little-white-lies-makes-them-anxious-141314458.html
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Not sure if yours shows the same thing, but my article has this link in the middle of it:
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/emma-willis-shares-photo-of-son-095441395.html
Which is quite ironic really.
“No, son, there’s no such thing as girls or boys. You can be whatever you like.”
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Fascinating that this was even allowed to be done in China:
Abstract
Research on family factors related to childhood and adolescent anxiety has primarily focused on explicitly negative parenting practices. Researchers have largely overlooked the influence of subtler parenting behaviors; for example, parenting by lying. Parenting by lying is a practice by which parents lie to their children to regulate their behavior. The current study examined the association between parenting by lying in childhood and adolescent anxiety, mediation of the parent-child attachment, and the gender difference in the mediation model. Adolescents ( n = 912, M age = 13.64, SD age = 1.07) were recruited from five secondary schools in a city in central China. A total of 422 (46.3%) boys and 490 (53.7%) girls completed questionnaires on parenting by lying, parent-child attachment, and anxiety. The results indicated that parenting by lying was positively associated with anxiety, and the parent-child attachment mediates this association. Adolescent girls who experienced parenting by lying in childhood had a significantly lower level of parent-child attachment, whereas the effect was not significant for boys. This study highlights an interesting but underresearched parenting practice and helps to characterize its potential effect on adolescent affective disorders.
So Chinese boys don’t care if they’re lied to? And the study shows that Chinese girls feels slightly alienated from their parents? Color. Me. Shocked. One has to wonder of the preference for male heirs has annnnnnnnnything to do with this.