Time magazine featured an article on why you shouldn’t punish your children for lying! It certainly is a sad state of affairs when we hear lies over and over again with the perpetrators unwilling to take responsibility. Children are always listening and those polite little lies that we use set an example for little ears.

We’re always looking for ways to modify behavior. Ruler on knuckle thought to be effective by previous generations would never fly today. We’ve all had the experience where a little lie would be convenient, and in many situations would never be discovered, but when we lie, who...