For the past few days Ginny’s been complaining, off and on of a stomach ache. The problem is that her body language is saying that there’s nothing wrong. She give me a practiced sad face and says, "My tummy hurts." And it’s generally when she wants attention or is in trouble. Otherwise she active and energetic. I warned her how important it is to always be truthful about how she feels, and she looked guilty, and said her stomach didn’t hurt. But then she’d be back a few hours later with the same thing. Then I remembered that Jonathan went throught the same thing, right about the same age, four. He would say he felt sick whenever he was in trouble, or didn’t want to do something. We warned him of how dangerous it was to pretend things like that, and since I’ve become pretty good at reading my kids’ body language he usually didn’t fool me. He eventually stopped and hasn’t done it again.

Has anyone else come across this?