Price of Lies……
Yesterday & today, 2 days in a row…Marina LIED!
Yesterday, she lied that she had worked on her copying exercise. She was smart enough to put up a good show by ‘pretending’ she had done the exercise but lost her book.
She search a while, and in the end…admitted that she did not do her exercise.
I was very fury and for first time, punished her to stand at the naughty corner.
I had to bring across to her that lying is a very serious taboo!
After she stood for 6minutes, I pull her to my side and explain to her it’s about integrity and honesty. This are very important virtue that I take it seriously. She promised not to lied again.
Today, she did it again, for not learning spelling. When I reach home today to go through her spelling, in preparation for her test tomorrow, she told me she learn but forgotten. I let her read through again before testing her. But later, she admitted that she lied and did not revise it in the afternoon.
It seems that she did not register the seriousness or she did not understand what is “lying”. Since importantly was to go through with her on her spelling test tomorrow, I did not punish her this time. But I re-emphasis on the important of honesty. Explained to her that lying mean cannot tell anythings that are untrue. She asked, what about this and what about that…so I affirmed she did not understand. So, I have to re-stress that MUST Tell the truth, the whole truth nothing but the truth!
Hope she understanding this time.
On the other hands, seems that I have given her too much homework. I have to look into this point too.