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Why Your Kid Is Such a Tattletale
There’s a developmental reason behind children’s obsession with rules.
Credit.Melissa Mathieson
April 28, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET
My older daughter is obsessed with the truth. Talking to her sometimes feels like being cross-examined by the world’s smallest and cutest litigator. Once I described something as “snobby” within her earshot and she hit me with a barrage of questions, “Why is it snobby? What did you mean by that? Why did you say it if you didn’t really mean it?” Until she broke me and I told her exactly why I had said it (because something was very expensive and I was being judgmental and a little rude).