Sometimes kids lie. You ask whether they ate candy during naptime and they respond, “No,” but their chocolate-smudged face tells another story. You tell them to pick up the clothes in their room and they say they didn’t put them there. It’s unclear who else would have dropped their jeans and T-shirt and wadded up socks on the floor. Often they lie because they don’t want to be in trouble. Sometimes they lie because they want to convince themselves something else is true. That kind of lie can seem as real as the truth. It’s those kinds of lies we tell ourselves that are the hardest to combat.