After a bunch of studies, a psychologist at the University of Portsmouth has discovered that babies actually start "lying" and deceiving their parents from around when they're 6 months old. Until now, mainstream psychology has said kids aren't capable of willfully deceiving till age 4. Of course, as almost any parent will tell you, that is complete nonsense.

This new study definitely confirms a suspicion I've had for quite a while: Little kids and babies are WAY smarter (and way less innocent) than we give them credit for.

One example that happened all the time with my son Joshua was that he knew he wasn't supposed to touch something and so he would look a different direction and then move his arm as if to grab for something else nearby, thereby "accidentally" brushing against precisely the object he wasn't supposed to touch. He'd then pull a mock "shocked" face, as if to say "oops, I didn't mean to do that". And he was maybe 10 or 11 months when he started doing this.

Psalm 51:5, baby. Psalm 51:5.