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Date: 20 March 2008 23:56:54
I had a conversation with a parent the other day where this genuinely seemed news to him.
The senario - kid does something a bit naughty, I say to the kid 'did you do something a bit naughty?' he says 'yes I did' I say 'ok well that's naughty as a reminder not to be naughty here is a detention'. Kid goes home and asks dad to sign detention, dad says 'what did you do wrong?' kid says 'I didn't do anything wrong, it's not fair' dad phones me to protest and tell me that I didn't see it and his kid is innocent, I ask why he admitted it to me when I asked him and dad realises his whole world is about to fall apart. His kid lied to him.
Shocking.
Which is actually better when the parent decides that there is no way in a million years their kid could possibly ever lie and so I must be a liar, and stick to that.