Alrighty...Luke has a buddy at school who likes to tell all kinds of stories and well, with Luke being only 8, he believes everything he hears! :rollseyes: So yesterday, he comes home saying that his buddy told him this story:

The buddy's name is "Justin". So, Justin was riding in a minivan with his parents and his dad kept going real fast (over 100!) and slammed the brakes at a stoplight and Justin flew out the front windshield and his parents did not notice because they were looking the other way. (Ya with me here?) Ok, so then he goes on to say that Justin says he went flying across the pavement (and survived!) and so on and so forth. Oh and the parents were not hurt. :rollseyes:

The above is an obvious fib. Now, when Abe and I tried to talk to Luke and explain that to him...Luke of course, became upset and crying saying that Justin would never lie to him. So this makes things so HARD to get through to him. I know that some kids really stretch the truth and I'm pretty sure Justin's father is quite the "story teller"....but how should we, as parents, respond to such horrendous stories that OUR kid comes with with them stating it as simple fact? Luke knows the difference between right and wrong. I guess now he's learning to realize the difference between lie and fact.

So how do we deal with this? This isn't the first story Luke's come home with and I know it won't be the last. This Justin punk has a b-day party Saturday and Luke's going....I'm just dreading the "stories" he's gonna come home with.

ANY ADVICE??? :pray:

Added: Apparently, they come to our church. I've not yet met them...

This is a hard one. But, eventually (he's 8, so probably in a year or so), Luke will come around and realize that some of what Justin says is simply impossible. As long as that happens before Luke tries to re-enact one of Justin's stories, no harm done. I'd leave it be. There's really no harm done.

If, however, you see Luke trying to emulate something like that, you will need to intervene. And, the only way to successfully intervene is to get Justin to admit to Luke that these are tall tales. I know that, occasionally, I'll embellish a story to make it more fun. Especially sea stories! Woohoo! You can have a lot of fun with those!

Seriously, though, I wouldn't worry about it too much. There's much more important stuff to worry about. This won't affect Luke in the long-term. If it does, you can sue and then YOU can share the $100k with everyone instead of Redguard! :)

LOL, Clay! Yeah, I'd thought the same thing you just posted. He's just a young munchkin and he will come around eventually about what's realistic and what isn't as he gets older. Heh, by the time he gets older, he may just say to himself...man, that kid had one heckuva wild imagination! :lol:

It just gets SO irritating, yanno? Guess I'm just being overprotected....yet, it's kind of a good experience...this will seem mild compared to other "stories" he'll come home with later on in life. :rollseyes:

Sarah has a friend who makes stuff up all the time. She's come to school several times and told everyone her mom was pregant...when she wasn't. And everytime she comes home with one of Alexus' tall tales, it's up to us to somehow find a way to explain it's not true, without calling her friend a liar. It's hard, because you know this kid is making stuff up because she wants it to be true. Maybe she wants the attention.

I would suggest you point out how impossible it sounds as best you can. And then let Luke decide. And like Clay said, it's not going to last forever...hopefully.