What a Tangled Web We Weave

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

You’re standing on it. It starts to crack. It shatters. You’re fully submerged in cold water, struggling to find a way out. You feel the dirty, mucky, surface touch the bottom of your cold feet. You trudge through the muck…

Liar? Liar?

Learning to Lie, an article by Po Bronson, offers a singular view of the Dunning-Kruger effect: that of parents believing their children to be honest, when statistics and experiments prove otherwise. Of course parents accept that their children will break things, throw tantrums, and hurt the feelings of…

We All Lie

Kids lie. Adults lie. Everyone does it. We all lie.

The first lie.

It starts out seemingly small, negligible, insignificant. You’re just testing the ground. It was probably something along the lines of I didn’t do it, whether that be hit your brother, eat…

The Truth Hurts

Why lie? Why make excuses and be dishonest? Well, sometimes, the truth hurts and people need to be shaded from it to preserve…

Lying Is A Skill That Should Not Be Looked Down Upon

Throughout our lives, we are taught many useful and important skills and praised for learning them. However, there are some skills that are left for us to learn on our own. Some of these skills are looked down upon such as the ability to…

Are We Allowed To Lie?

Temptation.

Temptation is a feeling that sparks curiosity in a way that makes people do…

“Mommy…Daddy…Why are you lying to me?”

The bad example parents don’t know they are setting.

I remember it as if it was yesterday, jumping out of bed, waking everyone else up, running down stairs. All this commotion to see the presents wrapped neatly under the lit tree…

The Crayon Lie

Alright, you have approximately 10 seconds to think of the worst lie that you have ever told anyone. Ready, set, go! But, seriously…

Lying by Omission

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”