OMG. I am at my wits end. SS6 is lying out his ears about every thing and every one right now. When he isn't lying he is looking grown adults straight in the eye and telling them he doesn't care what he is told to do, he is going to do what makes him happy.

The lying makes my head spin around. At daycare, knowing full well that there is a rule that all the kids do their homework before they go out to play after school (The rule is any written assignments need to be done before playtime, any reading assignments or work that requires cutting and gluing is doen at home with parents), he has been lying to the outside teacher about his homework and skipping off to play while the other kids work. Then, when he got caught, he looked his daddy in the eye and lied and said that his teachers and Auberry were lying, that he never knew this was a rule. DH disciplined him, but then said down and hugged and fussed over him like he was some crown jewel.

This is not SS6's first rodeo with this, he is actually in trouble quite a lot for it. And it isn't like a normal kid that lies because he doesn't want to get in trouble, SS6 lies because he wants to get his way, and wants to do what he likes. I understand very young children lie, and have to be taught the difference between lies and truth. I understand when a kid lies to stay out of trouble, even though it is wrong and has to be disciplined. But SS6 isn't a very young preschool aged child any more, he is six. He has been receiving consistant discipline for this and yet still continues. He doesn't feel sorry for it, he just gets upset because he got caught and got in trouble. It is maddening. I am at my wits end. I leave the discipline to DH, because he created this darling little child and all the issues he has can be laid at DH's and BM's feet. And DH, thank God, does discipline, but it just doesn't seem to be getting through. They say a child's personality and all is formed by the time they are five, and I can't help but wonder if this is a permanant behavior.