This morning when I went into the kitchen to tell SD7 it was time to go to school, she had barely touched her breakfast. When I asked her why, she thought about it for a few seconds (always the tell that she's about to lie) and said she had just gotten upstairs to the table. I told her I knew that wasn't true because I heard her come up.

I asked if she remembered how DH and I feel about lying and even if she's afraid to tell the truth, she would get in much more trouble if she is caught lying. She knew that, so I asked why she felt she had to lie when I asked her such a simple question like why she wasn't eating her breakfast. She just sat there thinking about it and giving me all kinds of excuses that didn't make sense.

Why bother lying to me about something so trivial? Now she's in trouble for that. I wouldn't have gotten mad at whatever her real reason was, I just would've explained yet again that she knows what time we leave for school and needs to be ready to go at that time.