Dear Sarah,
My daughter is only 7 and already she has started lying to me about things. Most recently she told me she had brushed her teeth but I know that she didn’t. I don’t know what to do.
Signed,
Panicked Parent
Dear Sarah: Lying
July 16, 2018 at 12:00 pm (Ask Sarah, Contributing Writer, Parenting, Sarah Getoff)
Tags: Honesty, satya, telling the truth, yogi parent
Off the Mat: Tell it Slant
May 7, 2018 at 12:00 pm (Contributing Writer, Ginny Hamilton, Parenting)
Tags: Honesty, satya, telling the truth, yogi parent
Off the Mat: Tell it Slant
Photo credit: Whitney H
In my 20s, a girlfriend introduced me to May baskets. She purchased old baskets from Goodwill or wove paper ones and gathered small treasures like stickers, maybe candy. Then, early on a weekend morning, the two of us would drive around town snipping blossoms to fill the baskets. We only took flowers from public places (we decided campuses counted as public) in ways that were respectful of the plant’s growth, never too much from one spot. Flower glutton that I am, the back seat soon filled with apple blossoms, rhododendron, plum, pear, and if lucky, a few remaining sprigs of forsythia. Baskets overflowing, we’d drive to our friends’ houses, still very early on a weekend morning, sneak a basket onto the stoop. Ring. And RUN!
Don’t be seen. Don’t get caught. And don’t tell. Even when asked, lie through your teeth. I think I still have friends these 20+ years later who – believing my dishonest denial – still wonder who delivered those baskets.
I don’t remember now how many years we did this, maybe five? More? As the friendship shifted more into our 30s, I stepped out of the tradition.
Until the year my kiddo turned seven. Read the rest of this entry »
