Thursday, July 12, 2007

Anyone have some truth serum?

Seriously, folks, how do you tell when your child is lying to you? When two children have completely different versions of what happened, one (or both) of them has to be lying! But most of the time, I cannot tell. Is it just that I have poor radar, or are my kids such skilled story-tellers? I have caught my 12yo lying in the past, so I tend not to believe her. But I can't be positive that the 6yo isn't lying, either. I hate to discipline them both if one is being truthful.
So tell me, how do y"all handle situations like this?

2 comments:

Frazzled Farm Wife said...

I didn't have any trouble telling who was lying...the one cannot look me in the eye and lie!

Anonymous said...

That's the problem, my 12yo will look right at me and swear up and down she is telling the truth.