Nettie is my 1st born so everything with her is a 1st. I’m learning as I go. I’m a young mom (had her at 21) so we’ve sorta grown up together. I’m rusty around the edges in dealing with 6 year old stuff. Now with Nimmie, I’m a pro because I’ve been there, done that. Nettie totally broke me in. When Nimmie is 6, I’ll be a pro with 6 year old stuff. But since Nettie is my 1st, the issues remain evident.

Our latest issue is her lying. The kid lies about everything. And it’s not like a cover up lie, although she does plenty of those. It’s lying just to lie! I don’t get this. I’ve been told it’s a phase and to not give extra attention to the lies because she’s lying FOR attention. But how can I NOT address them? They’re sometimes outrageous. For example, yesterday she told her teacher that her dad told her that if she did good in school for the day she didn’t have to go the next day. Obviously, I know Hubs did NOT tell her that. She’ll tell me things her teacher supposedly told her like “if you do well today you don’t have to work the rest of the week”. I know this isn’t true. I just don’t know how to address this. I don’t know where to go from here. I finally NICELY told her that I think she’s making up a lot of things that aren’t true and eventually we’re not going to believe her when she tells the truth. I haven’t used the boy who cried wolf story yet. Maybe it’s time to bust that one out.

So  between her kamikaze mission the other day in the car and this lying—I do believe I will be turning gray here shortly. My only hope is that Nimmie is the exact opposite when it comes to this stuff because I don’t think I can do this twice. If Nettie wasn’t SO sweet and SO empathetic and SO thoughtful most of the time I’m mostly certain that I would be borderline insane by now.

Just sayin.