There may be many individual peculiarities about your child's
imagination and his "story telling inclination," but these should not
induce you to be severe or to forbid them unless you have studied the
subject of the imagination carefully, or secured competent advice.
You attend the entertainment of a magician, and during the whole
evening your senses are deceived. The magician uses the inclination
of the mind to illusions in making his tricks possible. He throws a
ball into the air a couple of feet and catches it. Then he throws it
higher and does the same several times, the last time he goes through
the same motion without the ball and nine-tenths of the audience will
swear that they saw it actually disappear in the air. If we with years
of experience in sensation and thought are so easily deceived can you
justly punish a child for yielding to the same mental tendencies?