Teaching Our Children to Lie

Currently, I drive a school bus of Special needs children. You get to know them over time and they you. One of the most difficult things is often not the children, but hearing the thoughts of other adults and their expectation. I've heard of a bubbly personality, however it may lean at times to one of ignorance.

A typical interaction between a monitor and a child:

Monitor: hellooooooooooooo, how are you today?

Child: eh, ok I guess, but not to good.

Monitor: ooooooo, that's not what I want to hear rrrrrrr. You need to start saying, I'm fine and it's going to be a goooooooood day. Hehehe

So, in effect the monitor just told the child to lie, but also their voices doesn't matter unless it lines up with the "bubbly" (ignorant) personality. We train children with such religious hypocrisy and think we're doing a benefit. Now, others need to start doing the same so we speak a narrative and deal with nothing rather than the truth so we can pray, deal with things and treat each other with value.... Whether the narrative is heard or not.

Training involves more than behaving or speaking from a script.