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  1. It’s tough with our kids. The cookies incident — yup, that’s happened. And they get harsher punishments for lying to us than for admitting they broke a rule in the first place. It makes life hard for them; they know they’ll be punished if they tell the truth, and then they discover that they’ll be punished if they don’t. Talk about a no-win situation. Of course, if they were following that first definition of uprightness, it probably wouldn’t be an issue, would it? 😉

    I’ve always wrestled with tact. In high school, I was blunt in the same way that, say, a warhammer is in a computer game. I think I’ve gotten better, but it’s so much easier to either tell the whole truth or just lie. Yeah, not something I’m going to tell my kids as I strive to give them a moral backbone.

    Thanks for the thought-provoking post.

    • With punishing for doing wrong and punishing more for lying about it, I hope they get the message that even though there are consequences for their actions, it’s better to own up to what you did wrong and take the punishment and move on; hopefully, learning a better way to do something. Parenting has got to be the toughest job out there.

      I know I learned fairly early I just wasn’t going to get away with anything, so it was better to just do the right thing anyway. Well, most of the time.