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Parents beware! Children can spot when you’re lying – and when you hold back information, study claims

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Many adults will admit to telling white lies to children to make their lives a little easier.

But research has found children can spot this tactic, and can even tell when their parents or teachers are deliberately withholding information from them.

Once spotted, a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found children will then try to fill in the gaps in the information themselves.

Determining who to trust is an important skill to learn at an early age because so much of our knowledge about the world comes from other people, explained Hyowon Gweon, lead author of the paper  which is published in the journal Cognition.
The study builds on a 2011 paper in which the team of researchers investigated how children behave when a teacher explained only one function of a toy that can do four different things.

They found children spent most of their time exploring only the function the teacher had demonstrated.

However, children who received no instruction spent more time exploring all of the toy’s features and ended up discovering more of them.

 

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Give children cheap toys like buckets and hay bales… report suggests simple toys may be better for youngsters as they keep them active

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Children who play with cheap toys like crates and buckets are more physically active and creative than children with expensive playground apparatus, new research found.

A group of 120 primary school children aged between five and 12 were given access to cheap simple toys like buckets, pipes, exercise mats, hay bales and foam swimming pool toys.

They were compared to children from a nearby school with an expensive playground that included monkey bars and slides.

The study, published in the journal BMC Public Health, found that children playing with cheaper toys were less likely to sit around, with sedentary behaviour falling from 61.5 per cent to 30.5 per cent.

Children playing with everyday household objects took 13 more steps per minute and played more intensively and vigorously than those in the traditional playground.

Researchers now believe that conventional playgrounds may stifle energetic and imaginative children, and that cheap toys could be one way of preventing childhood weight problems.

 

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