So my little Princess has been grounded since Wednesday. She was supposed to be grounded just until the end of today, but yesterday, she earned herself a grounding all the way through Sunday.
What did she do? She lied. Not a huge lie or anything . . . just a bunch of little lies. We even made it very clear that we knew the answers to our questions and that it would be in her best interest not to lie, but she chose to lie anyway.
So, she’s grounded. Lying is NOT tolerated in t his house. With the grounding, she’s not allowed to have any sweets either - as part of her punishment. When she was told there would be consequences for her lying, she said “I don’t care. You can take away all my Webkinz forever!” Um - WHAT?! So Hubby took away sweets, which might not seem like a big deal, but we have about 2 dozen left over cupcakes sitting on her counter. It’s KILLING her that Dude gets to have a cupcake each day after school and she can’t (he’s only getting them every day to make a point to her).
And today - we had planned to take them to the movie The Tooth Fairy after school because they really have been really good lately - especially this past 10 days while I was playing the role of single mom. Alas . . . no movie for Princess. She gets a babysitter. And to make it sting a bit more - Queen Taunya is joining us at the movie AND I went to Walgreens and bought 4 HUGE boxes of candy for the movie. Ya I know I’m not supposed to take candy into the movie - but that’s not the point here! Stay on task . . .
The candy is sitting on the counter for all to see when they get home from school 
Ya - I’m a good mom like that.
I shouldn’t let her go on the Daisy field trip Saturday, but I will. That’s really important to me. Open skating on Saturday with the family is another thing - I see a little Princess sitting in the ice rink without skates on her feet, watching the rest of us skate around with our friends.
Snowboarding on Sunday - she’ll go - that’s not fair to the rest of us to not go because she made bad choices, and there is no way I’m paying a sitter for the entire day! But, she will NOT get to watch movies on the way up there.
Yes - I’m in the running for the MOTY award.
Being parents is a very difficult job. The first time I caught two of sons lying by ommision, I was so angry that I cried. I made it very, very clear that they are better off telling me what they did rather then waiting until I found out.
Sometimes it breaks your heart.
Wow. I hate to see your punishment when she does something really bad!!
Ha. Maybe your strictness will prevent that! Good luck.
Oh my!!! She really dug herself into a deep hole! I do feel bad for her but at the same time, if one of my marvelous children had lied and then said, “I don’t care you can take my Webkinz forever”, I can guarantee you that would have raised the hair on the back of my neck and the word “consequence” would have taken on a totally new meaning. It is really good to be done with those challenges and to be able to just sit back and observe our children in action! I’m sure that my kids lied to me at times and were naughty at times, I’d be a fool to think that it was any other way, but I honestly don’t remember them lying or really being naughty so either I am getting old and forgetful or my children were perfect!!! I’ll choose the latter. Love…Mom