I always hate the inevitable interrogations when something gets destroyed, and nobody knows how it happened. But, I imagine the complete opposite would be even more frustrating:
Who broke this?
Me
How?
Ninja moves.
Will you please be more careful?
Probably not
Don’t you even care?
Not really.
My mother always told me to take the truth, then one day she bought a glass oven dish, wrapped it in gift paper, and gave it to herself. Nothing wrong there, we all deserve nice shit from time to time. The thing is, she later took me to visit her sister (my aunt) and told her “someone” gave her the oven dish. I burst out laughing and said “that’s a lie, she gave it to herself.” She probably wanted to live the fantasy of someone else getting nice things for her? I don’t know. My aunt looked very puzzled, and I think my Mom whooped my ass later on.
The morale is: say nothing.
Perhaps the moral is there are better ways to handle this than to burst out laughing and call someone a liar.
Perhaps there aren’t when you’re a 5 year-old kid and know shit about social etiquette.
Agreed, at any age if you don’t know shit about social etiquette then saying nothing is good advice.
or mom should not lie and live in fantasy?
If the truth would embarrass you if others knew, why would you do it?
Because it’s embarrassing that no one in her life cares enough about her to gift her something she actually wants?
I wouldn’t do it myself, but I can understand why someone would.
Lie and live in fantasy all you want, but dont let your child in on it. They’ll stitch you up every time.