Sometimes the “bad kid” is the most emotionally honest of the children.

Research has found that children who start telling lies at age 2 or 3 — a year or two before most of their peers — tend to have a slightly higher IQ and an advanced ability to plan and control their actions (a process called “executive functioning”), notes Kang Lee, Ph.D., a professor at the … Read more "THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT LYING"