3. LPT: Don't get angry at people for telling you the truth because they will just ...

LPT: Don't get angry at people for telling you the truth because they will just lie next time.

Why is it so hard to understand that you're being punished

This is all that the average kid/teenager will hear when you speak that sentence. They're being punished not why just that they are. You can try to hit them with your logic, tell them that you're punishing them more severely because of the lying, too, and that's fine. You're right in this situation, for whatever that's worth to you in that particular situation. Though I'm not sure that the average parent's ultimate objective should just be to be right, the average kid doesn't typically give a shit if you're in the right or not. (See: Literally every teenager ever) If all parents needed to do to prevent their kids from misbehaving is to be right or logical I'm not sure that many kids out there would be misbehaving in the first place.

Children in general are not known for their exceptional foresight or logical thinking when it comes to not doing whatever they want to do at that particular second. Consequences be damned.

With that being said, as a (Former Child™)[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CllpHF3VYAEOtOn.jpg] myself, I can tell you that the way my brain worked is, being punished period sucks, and "turning myself in" so to speak to receive punishment seemed more or less akin to shooting myself in the foot like an idiot, not nobly "Taking my licks like an adult" (I wasn't even an adult, anyway, so why should 12 year old me have cared that I wasn't acting like one?) So I would do anything that I could to avoid being punished, lie, cover it up, whatever.

Anyway. The short of it is that a kid might even know that they're being punished for bad behavior and not telling the truth. They might know that they're being punished for the lying, not just the bad behavior if they get caught in a lie. They just don't care and in many cases, what goes on in their brain, paying attention to the emphasized words here, "I can confess to this and get punished less for confessing. Or, I can lie about it and try to cover it up and maybe get away with it." and when their brain tries to tell them "The chances of you getting away are tiny though" they're like ("So you're telling me there's a chance? Good enough for me.")[https://i.giphy.com/media/cT9tZDsVQL1II/giphy.webp]

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