Digging a Deeper Hole

I love to brag on my kids and, quite frankly, I think they are some of the most well behaved children on the planet.  With that being said, kids are kids and even mine screw up and do things they shouldn't do occasionally.  I'm very fortunate that it's not all that often but it happens.

My oldest got busted in a lie last night...not a crazy criminal type lie, just a lie that I didn't like.  She not only went down but tried to bring siblings that had nothing to do with it down with her.  It was a lie to protect her ass for something she'd done (which she probably wouldn't have even gotten into much trouble for until this went down).  I was pretty ticked off at her and her reaction made it worse.  She gave me a look like she couldn't have given two licks what I thought about the situation and wasn't listening to me to begin with.  It's a familiar look to me not because of my kids but because I have siblings.

This is where I get into the topic of debate...digging a deeper hole.  I have the perspective that if I'm in trouble, I need to fly under the radar, stay out of the way and be a fly on the wall.  If I just put my nose to the grindstone and do what I'm supposed to do, my punishment will be over and I can move on with my life.  She doesn't seem to understand this concept.  She just keeps doing things to further aggravate me.  I don't know why she feels the need to do it but it's a sick cycle...she gets into trouble, she gets mad at me and ends up making it worse.  It's like she feels like if she pushes me hard enough, I'll buckle and just let her go free.  It never works...ever.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  I can't understand why someone would continually dig a deeper hole just to get into bigger trouble over and over again.  It's...well, it's INSANITY to me.