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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tell my 12 yr old the truth. "I think you don't feel like working out this morning and don't want me to make you do it." "Or maybe you didn't really take a shower and don't feel like one now?" I say it with a smile, and DD usually smiles back and says "mayyyyyybe." Then we address her feelings and find a solution.maybe I do the workout with her. Maybe I let her use the fancy soap or I light candles in the bathroom for her. Then I give her a talk about not lying but just saying the truth. [/quote]

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The weird thing is that she never had to do it in the morning. She did all her workouts sometime in the evening - either after school or after dinner (depending on the schedule that day.) I never (not once) asked her to do it in the morning.
It was strange that she came downstairs and the first thing she said was she did all her workout and marked it in her daily log we keep on the fridge.

As for the showers, she can pick when she wants to take showers. She prefer evenings, because mornings get hectic and it's hard for her to get up early enough as it is.
And with martial arts twice a week and afternoon sports after school twice a week, she does smell a little :)
She doesn't want to share the bathroom with her brother, so I let her use my master bathroom. I'm pretty flexible with the times she takes a shower - especially on the days we don't have a lot going on. Sometimes on Friday or Saturday I let her skip it if it's too late and she is too tired. Usually it comes from her "mom - can I just wait until tomorrow and take a shower in the morning?"
I wonder how many more times she lied to me about it (and other things.) 
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