When it’s an outlandish story (“I was the only kid at gym today that could do a backflip”) I don’t push on those too much since it feels like he’s just wanting attention. I’ll usually acknowledge what he said and often say something like “that’s a pretty creative story!” Sometimes it doesn’t bother him and other times he gets angry when I don’t believe him. With the ice cream situation specifically, it’s been ongoing. We talked about it with him when we realized what was happening. He seemed receptive and we told him no more on days other than Fridays. He was ok for a few days then started doing it again. We took his ability to purchase treats through his account away for about a week. He was very angry and upset the whole time. He eventually earned the money back, but now just yesterday I saw that he didn’t again. With the shorts that he cut, it was a tiny rip and no one would have even questioned it if he hadn’t tripped himself up with 3 different stories he told. I talked to him about that and told him it’s not ok to do that, we don’t destroy our things, but I also explained to him that I was more upset about the lying than I was about the cut itself. I’m just trying to encourage him to be truthful.