Honesty

Today we called Brooke in Colorado. Viana wanted to talk to her dearest sister. She got on the phone and on my end I could hear Viana asking Brooke many questions about her trip. Then Viana says, "Don't say good-bye!" and tries to ask more and more questions. When I got back on my mom was laughing. She said Brooke had answered the questions as best she could and tried to say good-bye. When Viana kept persisting Brooke said, "That is all I want to say!" Sometimes I think we overlook the simple honesty that children have and find it without tact or to abrupt, but I think we can learn from them and try to pattern our honesty more like theirs.