I feel like calling her out on it is just making it worse.
It is time for you to take your child to a counselor or therapist so that you can get to the bottom of her lying. You need to understand why she’s so dishonest, and if she even has any control over her storytelling. It’s one thing for a kid to lie when they’re scared of getting in big trouble, but if she’s uncomfortable telling the truth even in low-stakes situations, there’s gotta be something more to it.
In the meantime, continue to encourage her to simply be honest with you. Remind her that there is nothing she can’t tell you, nothing she could ever say to stop you from loving her or caring for her. Talk about how dishonesty will impact her relationships with people who don’t have the same level of connection to her that you do, and how difficult it will be to survive school, work, and friendships if she cannot be trusted.
Whatever you do, do not accept this as simply a matter of who your daughter is as a person. This behavior can and must be addressed seriously now so that lying doesn’t truly define who she is in the future. Wishing you all the best.My older sister and I are very close, and I missed her terribly while she was living on the other side of the country with her kids.
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