Pool parties are supposed to be relaxing, where people come to enjoy the water, sun, and each other’s company.
However, during the one Reddit userSilent_Coconut_8060and her husband threw for their family and friends, all the fun ended when her niece decided to spread lies about the guests.
For reasons known only to the teenager, she started sending her parents false texts about substance abuse at the event, leading to a fallout between them and the hosts.
This teenager must really hate her aunt and her husband
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Because she just started spreading gross lies about them
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Generally, teens are the biggest liars
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A study called ‘From Junior to Senior Pinocchio‘ looked at lying behaviors in more than a thousand people ages 6 to 77, and the researchers found that peak dishonesty does, indeed, occur in adolescence.
Part of the reason why is that during this period, we are still usually relatively immature, with weaker emotional regulation, impulse control, and communication skills.
Professor and chair of the psychology department at Oberlin College, Nancy Darling, Ph.D., has researched teen lying for more than two decades.
She has studied 10,000 young people between the ages of 10 and 24, and has done research in countries including the United States, Chile, the Philippines, Italy, Sweden, and Uganda.
Dr. Darling and her team have identified three basic types of teen lying. These are:
According toThe Josephson Institute, an organization that studies the ethics of American youth, the vast majority of teens agree that trust and honesty are essential in personal relationships. But they still lie:
Without knowing more about the teen, it’s difficult to accurately pinpoint her motives. But if the author of the post is telling the truth and it’s not the first time she’s done this, there might be deeper problems at play here.
People pretty much unanimously said that she hadn’t done anything wrong
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