Parents Page

[CadCom he/him]

Hi y'all, I have been perusing the general discussions page, and saw several threads dedicated for discussion for people who fit a specific group. Atheist, LDS, Trans, astronomists, and others. It's so cool to see all thos groups. One group that I didn't see, unless I missed it, is a thread for parents. I thought it could be a cool page to start, just to share stories that made us laugh, cry, feel proud.

I honestly don't know if there are many other parents out here, but I thought I'd try to put it out there to see if there's any engagement. 

So last night my Little One (LO) told us a straight up lie for the first time. LO didn't want to change clothes before bed, but had spent several hours outside digging in dirt, honestly should have had a bath too, but it was already really late. (I was helping my parents with their sprinkler system, so LO decided to "help" too.) My wife wasn't at grandma's house, so my LO didn't know that wife knew we were outside the whole time.
My wife was putting LO down for bed time while I was putting younger siblings down, and LO told my wife that they had spent the entire time at grandma's house inside, so they didn't need to change clothes and could sleep in normal clothes. 

I realize that starting to lie is a developmental milestone when a child realizes they can say something that didn't actually happen, and at that age it's more about testing their abilities to influence parents and not be truthful. But it still kindof stung that LO would double down as much as they did, when they knew full well that they had not even gone inside grandma's house the entire time we were there.