Is it right to teach your children to use the word lie? (the bible teach us to call a lie a lie).?

Question

My friend says that I'm teaching my children wrong when I allow them to call a lie a lie among each other. It was taught to me by my mother to call it like it is, but she say "it was taught to her to say story," so who's to say who's mother was right I need some help.

Answer 1

Gertrude Stein would have said : A lie is, a lie, is a lie!

Shakespeare would have said A lie by any other name would damage the same!

What else are you going to call a lie, if i IT IS A LIE, for goodness' sake

Oh yeah, I forgot : an "untruth"...SAME BLASTED THING!

(I,m getting too drunk...anybody paging me???) - or is that a funny kinda ring in my ears???

Amen to that csageof!!! Always, tell IT like it is!

Answer 2

*****I have never heard that there were different schools of thought on this issue.  I believe that children in today's world should not be sheltered from many of the harsh realities that exist.  If loved ones cannot help nurture proper coping mechanisms early in life, what chance does one have when exposed to life's harsh truths.

I agree with you.  Tell it like it is!