Well, my 16 year old son, bless his heart had an art assignment to draw a dinosaur and include background from various perspectives and such. So I kept on him about "Have you finished your dinosaur?" "Oh ga, Mama, it's not due til Friday," he would say. So I kept on him. Today on the way to school I asked him about it again. He at first lied and said that he had finished it and when I asked him to see it he fessed up that he had not yet completed it. I told him that by golly that better be done by the time art class rolls around.
So about 1pm I texted him, since that is the communication mode of teenagers, and asked him if he was done and to tell me the truth. Typically I get a response immediately from him when I text but it took about an hour and a half and he sent me the simple response of "Yes". I suppose in that 90 minutes he was drawing like a mad man but hey, at least he did it and didn't lie about it.
Moral of the story-Children will lie to their parents it is up to us to know this and stay one step ahead of them and demand honesty.
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I like that you are the kind of parent whose text can prompt a teenager to do the right thing. I'm not hip to cell phones/texting. [I'm a dinosaur, I know (pardon the pun)]. A good, old fashioned evil eye got me on board when I was younger. You've got that going for you, too!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the whole lying thing, but do believe that some parents will constantly put their children in the position to lie and I was one of those guilty parents when my children were young. A wise Doctor told me to stop doing that all the time because I was training them to lie. I guess it's about balance.
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