So here I am the other day, and Ana is pretending to tuck me into bed.

[conuly]

I mean, she is tucking me into bed, and pretending that she's putting me to sleep.

And in my role as "Ana", I ask for a story. And she goes "NO!", turns around to leave... and hits me in the face.

Now, I thought this was an accident. Clearly, she could not have just hit me, while I was pretending to nap. That's so uncool, it's not even funny.

So I go "Ana!" meaning to continue with "Be more careful!"

But do you know what she says?

Go on, guess.

...

That's right!

"I didn't hit you, Connie!"



I believe I speak for everyone when I say BUSTED!

It's bad enough that she hit me. In the face. Bad enough she lied about it. But to lie so badly?


That's simply unacceptable. If you can't lie well, you must learn to not lie at all. There's no point in going around being a bad liar, it just gets you into trouble. Best to fess up at the start or keep your mouth shut, I always say.

(Naturally, I didn't explain this to Ana - I gave her a flat-out time-out for the lying and hitting. She doesn't need me to teach her to avoid getting in trouble.)

She didn't hit me hard, anyway, so I wasn't really upset. Well. I mean, I was, and at the lying, the insultingly bad lying - but really, I was in a position to see the funny side of it.

Comments

[adina77.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was younger I would get punished every single time I lied. And I would be punished more than one way if I lied more than once.

It was a lesson to learn not to lie.

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

I remember that too. My dad believed in spanking as punishment (probably still does, there's a conversation about my child rearing I'm not eager to have) so any time we lied about something we did wrong we got 7 extra spankings. Though really, I think that just taught us to lie better.

[adina77.livejournal.com]

I got spanked, I got put into my room, got things taken away from me. Sometimes mutliple things taken away from me! Or an extra chore around the house.