I recently captured a quick video of "Honest Ava" who is 4 and caught red handed in a lie. 

Had I been better prepared I would have applied Behavioral Interviewing techniques to this conversation to see just how far she would have used the "creative" side of her brain. 

It was random and I quickly grabbed my beloved iphone and caught this.

Luckily after investigation there was no damage done as it was just a washable marker!

Ava and I are both left handed and those of us that are lefties know when we write we drag our hands across our writing and it makes our hands messy.

If you watch closely her eye's look to the right when she is "telling her story"....and as we know the right side of the brain is the "imaginative" side of the brain and NOT THE FACT-based side. 

My final comment of..."Let's go take a look downstairs" was the pivotal point of the "interview"....kind of like a realistic job preview....and Ava decided to opt out!

I think I'll mark this post under the "Reputation" category.