The kid has managed to subvert our strategy of the United Front. He pulled the "Mom said I could"/"Quimps said i could" double lie. He even did it with something innnocuous so we didn't catch on the first two times.
I have been outskilled, outplayed, and frankly bamboozled.
The punishment for such a transgression is of course that he will not be getting any of the sweets at family game night. But even worse, his mom and I have arranged for all the sweets to be the adult sweets that he doesn't like, so even if he manages to sneak one it'll be awful mwahahahaha.
This double lie is so intuitive, Kiddo 1 seems to have picked it up somehow, but she's yet to out flank us with it LOL. I've resorted to saying "Well, lets go find out." when I'm met with "Mom said I could!", which so far is a highly effective reverse uno.
That's an excellent counter ploy, and one I shall add to my repertoire. Last time I just texted her without doing the "Oh let's check" routine which caught him out.
I wonder how this is going to play out if he ropes his bio-dad into this, as he's both rarely home and rarely answers his phone. Sort o hoping we can get this out of his system before he tries it.
The kid has managed to subvert our strategy of the United Front. He pulled the "Mom said I could"/"Quimps said i could" double lie. He even did it with something innnocuous so we didn't catch on the first two times. I have been outskilled, outplayed, and frankly bamboozled.
The punishment for such a transgression is of course that he will not be getting any of the sweets at family game night. But even worse, his mom and I have arranged for all the sweets to be the adult sweets that he doesn't like, so even if he manages to sneak one it'll be awful mwahahahaha.
This double lie is so intuitive, Kiddo 1 seems to have picked it up somehow, but she's yet to out flank us with it LOL. I've resorted to saying "Well, lets go find out." when I'm met with "Mom said I could!", which so far is a highly effective reverse uno.
That's an excellent counter ploy, and one I shall add to my repertoire. Last time I just texted her without doing the "Oh let's check" routine which caught him out.
I wonder how this is going to play out if he ropes his bio-dad into this, as he's both rarely home and rarely answers his phone. Sort o hoping we can get this out of his system before he tries it.