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Repeatedly Telling Lies. Has Lots Of Friends And Is Happy

my 17yr old high school senior repeatedly lies about doing his homework. This has been going on since 6th grade. He has been confronted in front of his teacher and still lies. He is always saying the teacher lost his work or just simply "yes I did it they just haven't entered it yet." We usually try to give him the benefit of the doubt. Any comments. confused and disappointed. PS..He is a happy kid with lots of friends . We have taken his phone and computers away and nothing seems to phase him.
Thu, 31 Oct 2013
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Ironically people who lie have lots to tell their friends about things and create fun out of nowhere-this too is a part of intelligence though a misdirected one- he should be told that it is good to use imagination but something that is going to hurt his own future is really bad and he has to understand this reality that lying about school work will make him fall behind in subject knowledge and shall give him poor marks in tests and exams ultimately ruin his career. With friends is okay to have fun but gradually they too would start mistrusting him and in his dire needs no one would take him seriously thinking it to be a lie on his troubles too.
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Repeatedly Telling Lies. Has Lots Of Friends And Is Happy

Ironically people who lie have lots to tell their friends about things and create fun out of nowhere-this too is a part of intelligence though a misdirected one- he should be told that it is good to use imagination but something that is going to hurt his own future is really bad and he has to understand this reality that lying about school work will make him fall behind in subject knowledge and shall give him poor marks in tests and exams ultimately ruin his career. With friends is okay to have fun but gradually they too would start mistrusting him and in his dire needs no one would take him seriously thinking it to be a lie on his troubles too.