This might range all over the place, but bear with me. First off, it’s rather obvious that honesty is better than lying, especially in the long run. We’re going through a time with my eldest where he’s tried lying to cover things up, and it’s backfired in several cases. He’s finding that hiding the lies is harder than bearing whatever consequences there are for telling the truth. Whether that lesson sticks or not is up for debate.
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Maybe this tip’s just for me, I don’t know. I’ve been going around the house lately looking for books that Douglas hasn’t read. He’s absolutely voracious in his consumption, and anything that I’ve handed him he’s read at least once, with one or two exceptions. He complained yesterday that the WWII era escape book (which I loved in high school, and grabbed in my desperation to find something new) was boring because it had no dialog, so I dropped that one. What I didn’t realize however, until I started quizzing him, was that a good chunk of the books he’s read he didn’t really ‘get’. He’d motored through them and understood most of the words, but comprehended little of the actual point. Doh!
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