Do you ever wonder why kids lie? What actually starts them down this path of being dishonest? This great article by Amy McCread, first featured on TODAYMoms, really gets at the heart of this behavior and offers suggestions on how to change it.

In honor of the jumping beans in episode three, we thought we’d share a couple of our jump rope rhymes that we loved as kids. If you or your children have a favorite, we’d love to hear it!

Some psychologists think values are impossible to teach, and it is certainly true that telling kids to be more honest, or diligent, or considerate, doesn’t work any better than telling adults to be. But if values are impossible to teach, they are too important to leave to chance.