Does it ever get easier? I once heard a friend say, "The bigger your kid, the bigger the problems." Yikes! How am I going to handle these so-called "problems?" I have one kid still in the single digits but another in the double digits and starting middle school. I know, I know, puberty, hormones, and/or peers can effect my offspring but I was never prepared for the....lying.
Yes, I'm complaining about the lying. Once, getting caught playing with his Nintendo DS in bed (because I heard the music playing from the game) my child has managed to lie to my face that he wasn't playing it. He plainly and quickly said that he wasn't. I look at him in awe and wonder how can he possibly think to get out of this?! He kept trying though, an A for effort but a freaking F for lying, every time he kept saying, "I really, really, really don't know what you're talking about." I eventually walked out to calm my blood pressure. Another time, involving a neighbor and their bee hive, Taylor said he think he knew who did it, blamed another kid, and insisted that he we no where near the bee hive. Turns out another kid with him saw all of it go down. Taylor wasn't the one messing with the bee hive but he WAS there witnessing someone else doing the action. I mean, why couldn't he just come clean and explain that before coming up with his bogus lie?!?
How or why do we lie? Where do people think they'll get? It made me think, after a new discovery that people at my CrossFit gym have been fibbing their scores and/or times, I wonder WHY?! Why would someone feel the need to do that? Technically, they're only competing with themselves.
So it doesn't surprise me that if adults think they can get away from lying then what's stopping a kid who gets CAUGHT in the act of lying?
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