Stolen Moments
For a very long time I've been teaching my daughter about honesty. "Never tell lies," is my mantra. "You'll be punished more for the lie than for whatever it is you're lying about."
My son figured it out years ago. He's a very truthful boy, and he understands about how fibs can make a bad situation even worse. He now sits back and watches his sister spin her own little tangled webs when she doesn't want to admit to wrongdoing.
Most of the problem lately has involved her going into her brother's room and taking things. Candy and money are what she's after. She's rather relentless when it comes to the sugary sweets. Her brother has yet to find a hiding place that she can't uncover.
However, just last week, after an incident involving a new pack of Big Red chewing gum, my daughter is finally starting to see the light. She's realizing that maybe honesty is the best policy.
When confronted with the pack of gum found in her room, she smiled and said proudly, "But Daddy, I like stealing things!"
Now we have a whole new dilemma!
My son figured it out years ago. He's a very truthful boy, and he understands about how fibs can make a bad situation even worse. He now sits back and watches his sister spin her own little tangled webs when she doesn't want to admit to wrongdoing.
Most of the problem lately has involved her going into her brother's room and taking things. Candy and money are what she's after. She's rather relentless when it comes to the sugary sweets. Her brother has yet to find a hiding place that she can't uncover.
However, just last week, after an incident involving a new pack of Big Red chewing gum, my daughter is finally starting to see the light. She's realizing that maybe honesty is the best policy.
When confronted with the pack of gum found in her room, she smiled and said proudly, "But Daddy, I like stealing things!"
Now we have a whole new dilemma!
Permalink posted by Phil at 12:48 AM
8 Comments:
Hey, you may have a young Winona Ryder on your hands! She does okay.
Big Red is pretty tempting.
Oh my! You know I feel your pain...I wish I could say I didn't chuckle when I read this...but my friend, I did ;)
She still sounds cute when she says that! She reminds me of myself when I was little..I find it a pleasure to get things that's not rightfully mine. But I learned fast that it's a sin..but still can smile when I remember it now!
We have a different problem. We have a seven year old who still hasn't seen the light (re:dishonesty), and a four year old who is honest, except when his seven year old brother convinces him to be dishonest. As an example, last night as I was rocking our three month old to sleep, he (the 7 year old) came and told me that Mom wanted me to make a ruling on how much more time they had outside before they needed to come in...it was getting pretty late, so I said "Five minutes." As he was walking through the kitchen, on the way out the back door, I heard him tell my wife "Dad said we could stay outside another ten minutes." Oh boy...challenging. The real problem is, the kid is too smart for his own pants.
Man...parenting is confusing sometimes, and terrifying. I don't recommend it to the feint of heart, that's for sure.
Excellent answer! Haha!
Kids are smarter than we give them credit for.
I have a little thief on my hands too. I haven't found anything that works yet...let me know if you find something!
I totally get backed into that corner. "I'm not mad at you, I just want you to tell me the truth." And she does, and sometimes it's worse than lying.
;)
lol Yes. That is a problem right there...being honest about stealing lol At least are half-way there with the lesson :)
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