Normal day. Madi did her Fasttmath and then played World of Warcraft today. Spent most of her day on the computer. She's loving being able to play her games and we use them as an incentive throughout the week. She seems to love that. She can only play on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sunday afternoons. We don't allow games on school nights. Besides there really isn't any time for it anyway. So she had a fun day with that!
At nighttime I helped her remake her bed and put on fresh sheets. As well as reorganize some of her clothes in her drawers. She was shoving hoodie sweatshirts and thick sweaters into her drawers and was finding it hard to find room for other clothes. So we talked about how thick items need to be hung up. Thin sweaters are folded so they don't get the weird hanger look in the shoulders.
She had a very hard time waking up for school all last week and while it was the first week back to school, her alarm clock was not waking her up or she was not setting it or whatever. So we had told her that we'd be giving her back the alarm clock that doesn't have a radio so that she could get used to waking up again. However, we couldn't find the old alarm clock. It wasn't in the two places we normally put it when we switch it out.
Madi kept talking about how messy her desk was and how it didn't make sense to clean it because it was just going to get messier. So as we were cleaning out drawers and remaking the bed, I looked at her desk and said "Ok - this is so an easy fix! There are only three things you need to do: throw away trash, put book on the shelf and put all your yarn in a bag. So we started to clean it and I was about to put some books up when I noticed that the old alarm clock had been shoved to the furthest corner of the desk and hidden under books and she'd had tissue and other items in front of it to hide it.
I said "Oh! Look - here's the alarm clock!"
She didn't look so happy about it. And then I said "Did you know this was here?"
She simply nodded her head.
And I talked with her about what it meant to not tell the truth. That telling the truth will give you one consequence in life. Yes, you will have a consequence for your actions. But that knowing the truth and deciding to not tell it and then also covering it up to hide the truth is deception. And that it would get her into quite a bit more trouble. She was quite quiet.
I asked if she was planning to tell us that she knew where it was because she knew what the consequence was. She was honest and said "no."
So we replaced her old alarm clock and took the new one out of the room. She wasn't happy about it and it was hard to tell if she was just sad because we found it or sad because she understood that she hadn't told the truth and been open about it and then covered it up.
As Jeremy put it, the only way she can learn to stop being deceiving is to be caught when she is. Will teach her to be honest and build character in the right way. Good news is that every time she tries something, she has been caught. This time it took us two days. We talked about how if she had just been honest in the first place about where it was, it would have shown good character.
Tomorrow is church and more W.O.W. She's excited to go to church. She picked out a new outfit - black flats, jeans, long sleeved black shirt and a cream long sweater that has a tie. Super cute!! I'll try to get a pic if I remember.
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