Why does he DO that?

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Why does he DO that?
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Wed, 08-22-2007 - 2:59pm

Okay, so Bryanna decided recently to expand her list of credits to lying. For some reason, Victor decided yesterday to tell his Language Arts teacher that he had finished some work but left it at home, then he came home and told me that he left it at school. Well, since Bry had already pulled this routine, it sounded fishy for me. After questioning him, he admitted that he didn't want to get in trouble and so that's why he lied. Well, consequences withstanding, he was grounded from his computer for the week. Well, being the cooperative parents that I thought we were, I told DH about it.
This morning, while everyone was still half asleep, DH decides to lecture both kids about lying and forgetting assignments and how if they do well in school, they'll do well in life. WHY DOES HE DO THAT? I keep telling him that Victor cannot handle that stress yet but he keeps getting onto him. Victor left the house trying not to cry and all I can hope is that he was able to get it together and have a good day but I'm dreading the outcome. Sigh.
Okay, thank you for listening to me gripe.

Alexis

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Wed, 08-22-2007 - 4:18pm

Why does he do that?


Be cause he is a man, and therefore unable to dually process certain concepts in parallel. These concpts include

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Wed, 08-22-2007 - 5:15pm

Yup, it's a man thing. I would dearly love for one of them to explain to me how this kind of thing is supposed to be helpful in any way shape or form. I can see reminding a kid who was just caught lying not to lie before packing him off to school, but not lecturing. What a terrible was to start the day! My DH does that kind of stuff too, and all it does is set our girls up mentally to fail.


I blame the Y chromosome, which is, technically, a mutation of the X chromosome.


~Candes

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