http://www.boomerdivanation.org/bdnhome/lies-women-tell/ Baby Boomer Women on the move & making a difference Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.boomerdivanation.org/bdnhome/lies-women-tell/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Arlene Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:43:55 +0000 http://www.boomerdivanation.org/?p=256#comment-90 I was intrigued by your article about the lies women tell. I've found one of the biggest areas where women lie is about their children. Our reputations as mothers and women can be so wrapped up in how our children turn out. We can do what we think are the right things and outside influences can still win over what parents teach. So we lie. We brag about how wonderful and perfect they are whether they are or not. I used to hate hearing my friends brag about what their children were accomplishing. It is easy to pretend for a short time that things are different and problems don't exist. But it helps to know you are not alone. So confess the truth mothers! We need each other. I think, most often mothers don't mean to lie. They are just telling the story the way they want it to be. I can relate to that. It prompted me to write a baby boomer memoir, "Nothin' Like I Thought". I was intrigued by your article about the lies women tell. I’ve found one of the biggest areas where women lie is about their children. Our reputations as mothers and women can be so wrapped up in how our children turn out. We can do what we think are the right things and outside influences can still win over what parents teach. So we lie. We brag about how wonderful and perfect they are whether they are or not. I used to hate hearing my friends brag about what their children were accomplishing. It is easy to pretend for a short time that things are different and problems don’t exist. But it helps to know you are not alone. So confess the truth mothers! We need each other. I think, most often mothers don’t mean to lie. They are just telling the story the way they want it to be. I can relate to that. It prompted me to write a baby boomer memoir, “Nothin’ Like I Thought”.

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