Ok I'm sure eveyone has had this happen once or twice. Maybe more I dunno. But last night I went into my son's bedroom to get some extra clothes as my SIL said he could stay overnight. Now ds didn't know she had called back. He had called earlier last night and she said she had some phone calls to make and wasn't sure yet. He was of course upset, but went with grandpa and daddy to check on the field that the neighbors wanted us to put up.

Anyway she called my moms because that's where my ds called from. Saying he could come on over for the night. Anyway, I walked into his room to get some clothes for him, so when they came back dh could take him over there.

Then I find out one of the bulbs on his ceiling fan in his room is broken, as in most of the white part of the bulb was gone, and no signs of it at all on the floor. I assumed it had happened yesterday while I was out mowing and he was in the house a couple times.

So I had to wait for them to get back and took ds and dh into the room to have ds tell us what happened. He had been swinging the ear buds for the cd player around and it hit it and broke, the lights were ON when he was doing this. *sigh* I was upset indeed, because he did NOT attempt to tell dh nor I that it happened at all.

We asked when it happened and he couldn't remember, but it was before the garbage got taken out of the kitchen, which meant at least 3-4 days.Needless to say I was a bit upset, BUT I did my best and talked calmly. Making sure he knew it was wrong, and in my opinion a form of lying.

Ok where was I, I had to go help ds with something.

Oh ok now I remember, I told dh when ds was doing something, that the call did come back for him to stay over. Dh commented that it was up to me, and I simply said. "No its up to you." I dislike being the one to *always* decide. So I left it up to him. He said that after finding out about the light bulb in his opinion it should be a no.

He had ds, clean up his room, and wash himself up. He took his evening pill and was off to bed.

So even though he did not know he could go over there he wasn't upset. But how is it you really teach a child to just admit when something happens instead of hiding things?? He's done this before, but not for a while.