Its Grandma's Fault

Last week we put up Christmas lights in our living room. Since then, Truitt has been instructed and fairly warned many times about not plugging in the lights without permission. In reality, he has received many spankings for his plugging in of the lights without permission. This morning, out of the corner of my eye I saw Truitt leaning over to pick up the cord to plug in the lights. I said, "Truitt, who told you that you can plug in the lights?" He said, "Grandma told me to plug in the lights." It was then that I noticed that he was in the middle of an imaginary conversation with Grandma on his play phone. How convenient that an authority figure was asking him to do the very desire of his heart. Who teaches them these kinds of things?