I saw on America's Funniest Videos recently a little girl, about five or six years old, in a soft, sweet voice telling her mother how pretty she is. With childlike innocence, she follows the compliment in the same soothing voice by adding, "but you're fat." The mother looks a little surprised and hurt at that remark. The little girl reads her mother's body language and quickly qualifies the remark by saying, "But you're not too fat." Our children in their honesty do have a way of setting us straight, don't they?

Another woman was dieting and complaining to her grown daughter that, although she had worked hard to lose twenty pounds, she had not lost it in the right places. Her daughter replied, "Mom, don't be too hard on yourself. After all, we both know that you have an hourglass figure. …