Dd2 is like this, not so much the spying but she hides things, food for later she made herself sick by drinking milk that was hidden away but it's also rocks, paper hair brushes even my book! I have learnt if anything is missing to ask her. Hoping the food will stop as she was sick for two days. Right now all her winter clothes are missing as she wants to wear dresses instead. Glad it's not just us, as dd1 was never like this.
Sign of intelligence. Either that or all that on-demand love I gave really did result in a sneaky, manipulative child. With Liebling, it is things such as lies about his day like he learnt how to fly at school (with a "sneaky" look on his face) or that he hasn't eaten biscuits etc. The stories are fine as that's imagination and we build on it, then I let him know it's pretend by asking what he did in class rather than at break. With a lie to get what he wants, I won't play and he doesn't get what he wants.
We also get tantrums when he doesn't get his own way. I laugh at him and say how ridiculous he looks. He often chooses to put himself on time-out at this point, so I can't laugh at him. He sits and pouts and huffs, but I am not allowed to laugh because he's on time out.
The melodrama and hiding stuff has stopped, I am pleased to say. Unless we're playing at melodrama, when I give as good as I get.
Yep, DS is the same age & he is discovering being sneaky & hiding things. He likes to play tricks too. Its very cute as he can't help but smile as he is trying to convince you that he has lost something that really he is hiding behind his back.
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