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[quote=Anonymous]Well, that's an overstatement.  Over the past few months there have been a few situations where a group of neighborhood kids have been playing together and they do something that's against the rules. My friend's DD swears she wasn't involved, gets upset  and cries really hard and my friend says she believes her. Meanwhile my kid and the others maintain that she was actually involved.

Anyway, there have been a few instances at school  where similar situations have occurred with different groups of friends  and my friend's DD reacts the same way--denies her involvement and then cries about it and my friend always believes her.

Another such incident occurred over the weekend and my friend's reaction is to get upset at the other parent who told her about the incident. My friend says she still believes her DD if her DD says she wasn't involved.

I know it's hard to realize that your kid may be capable of lying to you and her kid is pretty convincing. I wasn't there for all of the incidents so I can't say for sure if her DD was involved but I feel like my friend has to stop getting defensive and start looking into it more before just automatically dismissing these accounts.  Her DD is overall a good kid but it appears she's figuring out how to manipulate and convince her parents that she's never involved in these situations.

When my friend tells me these stories in an incredulous tone, I'm torn between biting my tongue and suggesting  that there's a pattern brewing here. What would you do?

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