Is your kid pretty reliable?

[Faevantastic]

In terms of things they tell you. For example, we asked E what he had to eat at school yesterday (they do breakfast, lunch and snack). At first he said he ate pineapples for lunch, then when we pressed harder, he said he had noodles but he was pretending they were pineapples (lol). When I looked at the actual menu, lunch was supposed to be beef stew, saltines, mixed veggies and diced peaches. I tried asking for more details, like maybe he didn't want the beef stew (I called it stew and soup) so they gave him noodles instead... But nope. He said there was no soup at all or crackers or peaches.

I also asked what he had for snack and well that was impossible too. Supposedly they had goldfish, he would never turn down goldfish but he adamantly said no but couldn't tell me what he had for snack.

This is very typical of him. Normal 4 year old behaviour?

[muppetinma]

If he actually tells me anything, I can guarantee that he's telling the truth. Most of the time when I ask questions, I hear "I don't know."

[hocus2]

Sounds normal to me. My son tells me nothing and often what he does tell me doesn't make sense unless I ask the teacher for more insight.

[claralou]

Normal. She's frighteningly reliable and specific with food, but she regularly invents stories of things that happened at school that did...not happen.

[Deleted]

For food, she is reliable. For other things, not always. Especially if she thinks she will get in trouble or wasn't behaving nicely, she will automatically make herself sound like the good behaving kid in her stories lol

[mcburglar]

If asked, Thad ate "nothin", played with "nobody", and did "nothing."

Or he ate cookies, played with frisco, and went to the moon.

Depends on his mood.

[katie]

She really isn't reliable and tends to mixes things up a lot. When I ask about food she usually says she doesn't know but if I ask what one of her friends bring for show and tell she will tell me. But really I have no idea if it's right.

[melmon0417]

Almost every day, when I ask A what she had for lunch she says, "I don't know." OR, she will say something, (that I know they didn't have), and like E, tell me she was pretending it was that food.

When I do get answers from her about what she did at school, she's pretty reliable. But, that is like pulling teeth!

[CrazyLucky]

We ask the kids what they ate for lunch. It's either I forget, or something silly, like ice cream. One time DS told us he had a beer at lunch. I told him the teachers probably wanted him to take a good nap.

[honeybee503]

She doesn't start school until tomorrow, but I am considering strapping a GoPro to her head for this reason, lol.

[shevacc]

I usually get "I don't know" for any school-related questions. What she actually tells me is often grounded in truth, but exaggerated/embellished. I feel like they live in imagination land so much of the time that it's hard for them to realize what actually happened and what they made up. So...I still ask, and tend to believe the believable bits, but double check with a teacher if I hear anything that sounds "off". Which I guess means no, not reliable.

[Faevantastic]

Sept 7, 2016 11:13:15 GMT -5 honeybee503 said:

She doesn't start school until tomorrow, but I am considering strapping a GoPro to her head for this reason, lol.

Genius!

[ktstorm]

same answers, verbatim as mcburglar

[mumegs]

She is not reliable at all, last year in school she would tell me all the time stuff that happened that the teachers would be like what?? It's pretty annoying bc I don't know what the truth is. Just this weekend she told me the neighbor's dog bit her but she has no marks and nobody saw it so idk what actually happened. I have been trying to tell her she can't lie about stuff that happened but it's kind of a hard concept to explain.

[carawestt]

Normal. Lincoln is really reliable but also blames things on ghosts quite often as well..

[bean47]

Sometimes it's hard to get the information out of her but what she does share is reliable.

[creamsiclechica]

A has always been a compulsive truth teller, lol, but she's been dabbling in making things up lately. It's also hilarious really because she gives herself away with a tone of voice, and if I prompt her with truth, she immediately gives in lol.

[jsillyfun]

I think it's normal although May is very reliable. At least about food lol. She never remembers where she left things and will sometime make stuff up. "I saw it in the backyard!"

[fusion]

They go to prek together and corroborate each other's story in a long string of word vomit on the way home from picking them up. They like to tell me who in their class got in trouble that day.

[tuck]

Sadie would most likely tell me that they ate butts for lunch. And that she played with butts. And that butts are her best friend.

Can you sense a theme here?

[unclejesse]

Every single day for the past year, when we ask what he did at school, it's been the same answer: "I listened."
Recently, he's started telling us when he did and didn't take a nap at school. We have to needle him a bit to see what happened that day.

[unclejesse]

Oh, and he's always telling us things he did "when he was a baby." The best was when he told us that when he was a baby he lived in Mexico and saw Donald Trump and kicked him.

[vthokie]

A is usually pretty reliable. But we also get the "I don't knows" I finally switched to specifics and get a lot more details. "What's your job this week? What songs did you sing? Did you hear an awesome story?"
Unfortunately, life begins and ends in song, so I get to hear the week's letter song the whole way home.

[blane12]

Now that B can actually talk, he's very reliable and can't wait to tell me what he did during the day.

[thedahliharpa]

Now that she knows she can occasionally trick me, she tries to frequently.