What emotion drove it? Fear, embarrassment, guilt? If you knew your honesty would be met with empathy instead of anger, would ...

Some seemingly cute childhood habits, like talking back or refusing to share, can develop into problematic behaviors affecting discipline and relation ...

One of the delights of talking with a young child is that they will tell you anything that pops into their mind, completely unfiltered — be it a frank assessment of someone’s personality, or a piece ...

So many parents in today’s child-centered culture refuse to entertain the notion that their children are capable of dishonesty. Yet, kids, like all humans, lie. They lie for many reasons, and this can ...

Jamie Goldfarb had finished reading the last bedtime book to her three-year-old son, Kai, when he told her he was hungry. The mom from Takoma Park, Maryland, usually complied with such requests since ...

As the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, I am increasingly exposed to the alarming (yet adorable) reality of early childhood lying. A couple of months ago, my husband came to me laughing. He was ...

Eight-year-old Henry lied about everything. It absolutely infuriated his mother, Sophie, if mostly because she couldn't figure out why he was doing it. Some of the lies she understood, as they'd ...