With nature education and free education, why should your children lie to you? What is he going to hide from you?
Therefore, usually you should not obstruct him at will, do not punish him, and do not force him to do anything.
Why would he tell his friends everything instead of telling you everything so innocently?
Because telling you the truth is more dangerous than telling your friends, he will not fail to see this.
When a child makes a commitment, he hardly lies because he is just thinking about how he can get out of his current difficulties, so the methods that won't have an immediate effect are all the same for him.
When he promises what will happen in the future, he actually promises nothing. When he lives in the present, his imagination does not yet have the ability to project himself into the future.
If he had promised to jump out of the window tomorrow and he could have avoided a whipping or a box of candy, he would have made such a promise on the spot.
That is why the law does not take into account all the commitments made by minors.
If fathers and stricter governesses insist that children fulfill the promises they make, it's only because those promises involve things that children should do even if they don't make commitments.
When a child makes a promise, he doesn't know what he's doing, so he's not lying by making a promise.
This situation is different from his reneging on his promises, which is a kind of lying with retroactive effect.
Because he remembers very clearly that he made a promise, but he just doesn't understand how important it is to keep it. He is not yet capable of looking to the future, so he cannot foresee the consequences of something, and if he breaks his promise, he does not do anything contrary to this rational stage.
From this it can be concluded that children lie solely because of their teachers, who teach children to tell the truth, and that the result is entirely teaching them the art of lying.
If you are in a hurry to restrain, control, and discipline your children, you will never find enough methods at your disposal.
You want to have a refreshing effect on their minds through unfounded guidelines, irrational admonitions, and you'd rather they know their homework and lie than be ignorant and honest.
——Excerpt from Rousseau's Emile (Set of Books 1 and 2)