The Little Mister has entered into the life stage of lying.
Nothing major, more like little white lies.
Questions Little Mister will lie about when answering on any given day:
“Did you wash your hands?”
“Did you brush your teeth?”
“Did you put your clothes in the hamper?”
“Did you eat all your fruit?”
“Did you hand in your homework?”
“Did you clean up your toys?”
“Are you lying to me right now?”
And the best part is, he’s a HORRIBLE liar; which, I suppose, is good qualify for a kid to have. Though I imagine he will perfect this skill as he gets older. He’s not quite sophisticated enough to know that if he lies about brushing his teeth and I check his toothbrush and it’s dry, that’s he’s caught, and that he should have wet the toothbrush before we had this conversation.
I like to have fun with him when he’s “stretching the truth”, asking him to look me directly in the eye and tell me again. To which he will make his eyes as wide as they will go and he will stare at me with his creepy bugged-out eyes and repeat himself.
The little bugger is impervious to guilt, too!
Our conversations go something like this:
ME: “Did you wash your hands?”
LM: “Yep!” (Nope)
ME: “Why didn’t I hear the faucet go on?”
LM: “Because I turned it on really low and it was quiet.” (Again, nope)
ME: “Can I smell your hands?”
LM: “You don’t need to. They’re clean, I swear.” (Nope!)
ME: “You’re sure?”
LM: “Why don’t you believe me?”
ME: “I do believe you. Do you know why? Because I know you wouldn’t never lie to me.”
LM: “That’s right. I wouldn’t lie to you.” (Still lying)
((quiet))
LM: “Well, I guess I could wash them again.”
I know lying is part of growing up and seeing what you can get away with. Little Mister tests us every day – how much can he get away with before one of us cracks!
But I guess I can’t really say anything, since there are small, white lies we tell the Little Mister when necessary. Things like:
“That store is closed today.”
“They are sold out of that toy.”
“We don’t have any ice cream.”
“Moms see and hear and know everything.”
(That last one if my favorite)
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