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Is it OK to prank your kids? Do they get it? And where’s the line?

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Is it OK to prank your kids? Do they get it? And where’s the line?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.edkpwrmx6
Authors

Sharman, Rachael

Abstract

Elf-on-a-shelf and the ‘this is you as a baby’ Tiktok trend both involve tricking our kids. Can tricking your kids damage trust, or can it actually teach them something? And why do they believe us?

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 November 2024.
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Altmetric has tracked 34,348,536 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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