Thanks everyone - all the advice helps. The house HAS been a quite bubonic these last weeks, Stacey wink. (also...to the TED talk...no? maybe? can you send it to me again?) And good point about the moral implications of lying, ConnectingDots..he's clearly not trying to deceive so much as not get in trouble/say the right thing. Fine lines, sure, but worth noting.

Also will take the note about just correcting him versus having the lying 'talks', polarbear - I think that's a good direction to go in.

We'll try and take the deep breaths. School is starting soon and he is excited about that so hopefully that will be positive transition. Crossing fingers!