When Parenting Turns Into a Courtroom: Escaping the Battle of Wits

End the Blame Spiral When Kids Deny Everything

I get caught up in a battle of wits with my children and tempers flare and kids get frustrated and I get frustrated and nothing gets resolved. We have many children. It’s impossible to watch everything. Something gets eaten. Who ate it? Nobody apparently because everyone denied it. Somebody took someone else’s brush, moved it, brushed the dog with it—wh…