So Proud of You

So Proud of You Q-man

I know this picture is not such a happy shot of our youngest.  I am so proud of our little guy, Q-man.  Yes, he was still sent to his room to sit on his bed for a bit, but the lesson has been learned and I think the light bulb has gone on for him.  Woo-hoo!!  Two rules (of many) that we have in our house is #1 Do NOT lie.  We tell our kids that there is no need to lie, we know you might be scared to admit to wrongdoing but if you tell the truth your punishment will not be as severe as it would be if we catch you lying to your parents or any adult for that matter.  #2 You must eat all you dinner before you can get dessert.  I have had to work at clearing up this rule to include the word dinner.  Q was under the impression that he could get dessert after EVERY meal including breakfast(it was hilarious seeing his face one day after he finished his cereal and ran to me asking for a cookie - what do ya mean, no cookie I ate everything?!?).  He keeps us on our toes, this one.   Continuing on, I was upstairs scrapping after fixing the kids' dinner plates and getting them situated to eat.  Q came upstairs and told me he'd finished his dinner and asked for a brownie.  I asked him twice if he was certain that he'd cleaned his plate and he assured me that he had.  In the past, I would have gone downstairs and checked his plate but this time I did not.  I gave him the ok to get his brownie and he was off.  A couple of minutes later, he came back to me and he had tears in his eyes and he said "Mom, are you gonna be mad at me?"  I knew immediately that he had lied about dinner and was about to get angry but instead I just answered "No Q, why?  Should I be mad?"  He told me that he had not eaten all his dinner.  I was still trying not to get angry because I thought he was coming to tell me all this AFTER he had eaten the brownie.  So glad I didn't.  He told me he DID NOT eat the brownie!!!  Happy Happy Joy Joy!!  I looked at his little face and gave him a big hug and kiss and told him I was so proud of him for telling me the truth.  I lifted him into my lap and let him cry for a little bit then had a nice long chat about lying.  I told him that I was still proud of him but he still had to go sit in his room for a while for lying in the first place, hence the shot above.  After I told him his time was up, he gave me a big hug and kiss looked up at me and asked, "Mom, are you gonna tell Dad?"  :-)