{"id":153,"date":"2015-08-24T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:03:14","slug":"eye-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2015\/08\/24\/eye-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sibo<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week mum caught me out. I\u2019d eaten the last biscuit in the box.<\/p>\n

\u201cSibo\u201d said mum \u2013 \u201cdid you eat the last biscuit?\u201d<\/p>\n

Heaven only knows why I did it, but I fibbed. Probably because I thought I might get into trouble for eating that last little sucker.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo mum\u201d, I replied as innocently as I could, looking up at the ceiling, scuffing my toe against the edge of the carpet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not cross with you for eating it, just for leaving the empty box there,\u201d said Mum with a smile.<\/p>\n

I dashed off to the kitchen and threw the box away. Then I gave mum a hug. \u201cHow did you know I was fibbing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s easy\u201d she replied. \u201cYou never look me in the eye when you tell fibs. Your eyes wander all over the place but don\u2019t go anywhere near my face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seriously? Can people really tell that you are fibbing if you don\u2019t look them in the eye? I decided to google it because I did not really believe that it could be true.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I found out\u2026 Firstly we have no control over the size of our pupils (those black bits in the middle of your eyes). Your pupils get bigger when you are interested in something and smaller when you are not.<\/p>\n

Making eye contact makes a person seem more honest, trustworthy, attractive and confident. If you look a person in the eye whilst talking to them you are more likely to win them over. Also, it shows that you are listening to them and are interested in what they are saying. Of course, if your pupils get tiny and you look away \u2013 they can see that too!<\/p>\n

But sometimes looking a person in the eye is very difficult; especially when it\u2019s an adult you are talking to.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little sneaky tip \u2013 if you are having trouble looking somebody in the eye \u2013 focus on the bridge of their nose instead. Or look at one eye only – they can\u2019t tell the difference and it\u2019s easier to do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good trait to learn and practise \u2013 look somebody in the eye when you talk to them.<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Odd, slightly naughty but very cool word for the week: Fopdoodle<\/p>\n

Meaning \u2013 a Victorian (very old) word for a \u201cdumbass\u201d<\/p>\n

Example: I was such a fopdoodle I forgot to turn off the light in my room when the power went out \u2013 so when it came back on again the light woke me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week mum caught me out. I\u2019d eaten the last biscuit in the box. \u201cSibo\u201d said mum \u2013 \u201cdid you eat the last biscuit?\u201d Heaven only knows why I did it, but I fibbed. Probably because I thought I might get into trouble for eating that last little sucker. \u201cNo mum\u201d, I replied as innocently … Continue reading “Eye spy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[19,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}