The blame game

It's not something I like to admit to being truthful but it is the case that I easily get into situations where I do blame others either for the whole of something wrong I did or excuse myself  by saying "They started it".
This I think goes back to pre teens and certainly and perhaps not unlike a good number of people who have been in Politics, I certain have done this in adult life.
In many ways  now as then faced with a blame game involving two or more with me in it, I needed to be spanked along with the others not to lie my way out of punishment and to get the just consequences of my behaviour.