Being straight with our kids

I was driving down the highway tonight, thinking about the game of integrity with our children. That is, do not run from the truth when they ask you and treat all that they ask of you as you would a best friend and recognise age is not the barrier to being a good parent, but that programming we have received needs some new source code so that they do not replicate the traps which we have fallen into or the the misgivings of telling stories.

Food for thought. Col

I agree that our children are our greatest teachers if we but have the courage to be straight with them. So how might we celebrate that?
How about writing our kids a one page letter being straight about something – not necessarily a trauma or a clean up – and not excluding anything!

And we collate it and publish it on the web.
Maybe we could buddy one and other or try it out on one and other once drafted
Or something like that. Mike

Consider............ the art of listening!
I often ponder over the nature of true human sincerity, true transparency.......It is a rare and difficult thing; and how much it depends on the person who is listening to us! There are those who pull down the barriers and make the way smooth; there are those who force the doors and enter our territory like invaders; there are those who barricade us in, shut us in upon ourselves, dig ditches and throw up walls around us; there are those who set us out of tune and listen only to our false notes; there are those for whom we always remain strangers, speaking an unknown tongue.
And when it is our turn to listen,
which of these are we...............? George