Little girl handed mom 'school mail' declaring extension of holidays, but one tiny detail exposed her adorable lie

A girl named Cara G. tried her best to make Mom believe her school had extended their holiday break but got busted when she missed a little detail. Cara's mom (u/locke-in-a-box on Reddit) posted a picture of the handwritten note on Reddit, which has got 35K upvotes so far. School breaks are usually when children get to be real children — out playing, visiting friends, lying under a warm sun in an open field, etc. It is no surprise that Cara wasn't ready to give it all up yet.

Cara wasn't happy with her school break ending so early, so she decided to trick her mother into thinking her holiday break had been extended. "The school company is taking a break [sic], so the kids will get one more week of school off, and we will need your child to sign their name here," Cara wrote in her letter. Interestingly, the little girl left no chance to make the letter look real. She went so far as to sign her name at the bottom to ensure her mom doesn't doubt the letter at all.

In fact, Cara also added a pink stamp with Disney's Rapunzel on it to make it look even more authentic. Now, while the little girl managed nearly everything on her own, she missed one tiny detail. The day she gave her mom the letter was a Sunday, when the mail doesn't arrive. "My daughter got the mail today (it's Sunday), apparently they have another week off school," Cara's mom captioned her post.

Kids lying to parents isn't unusual. In fact, research by Nancy Darling found that nearly 96% of adolescents lie to their parents. A similar study (by Lene Arnett Jensen, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, S. Shirley Feldman, and Elizabeth Cauffman) found that 82% of high school and college students admitted to having lied to their parents in a year. Now, while Cara's innocent approach to extending her school break was a white lie, parents must understand that if kids continue lying, then they may grow habituated to it with time. 

Meanwhile, reacting to the Reddit story, u/spookymomma shared, "My son did this very same thing when he was little, so I took the extra holiday (only 1 day, not a whole week) to take him to the doctor to get his updated immunizations done. He got to spend 4 hours sitting in the waiting room, got his shots, and then got home right as the unfortunate kids that weren't granted a holiday were getting off the school bus. He learned his lesson."

u/kip_hackman_fbi said, "As a lawyer, I find it hysterical that she notarized her signature with a Tangled stamp." Similarly, u/ubspirit wrote, "My kid pulled this; I laughed, said try harder next time, and had him go over the homework he got over break again."

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