The candor of youth

Jan 12th, 2006 by Accidental Thinker

Kids sure do tell it like it is. My favorite comment so far about my weight loss, because it was so refreshingly honest, came recently from one of my daughter’s classmates. I picked my kids up after work the other night and this girl, whom I haven’t seen since probably May, spied us walking down the hall. She popped her head out the door of the bathroom and blurted out, with total disbelief in her voice, “Maia! Is that your MOM? I thought she used to be bigger!”

I took it as a compliment and couldn’t help but grin.

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17 Responses to “The candor of youth”

on 12 Jan 2006 at 1:10 pm1Karen

That is too cute. Kids are so funny. After I lost a lot of weight a few years ago, my nephew hugged me and said, “Now my hands can touch when I hug you.”
on 12 Jan 2006 at 1:16 pm2jona

You deserve to grin! Good on you :o)
on 12 Jan 2006 at 5:33 pm3bornfool

lol. Very nice, unless she meant that she thought you were now shorter.
on 12 Jan 2006 at 9:17 pm4Paul N.

Is that you I see struttin’ out the door?
on 12 Jan 2006 at 10:29 pm5lz-blogger

Kids are really pretty honest. Sometimes they can be too honest. But in this case, the honesty was VERY rewarding to you! ~ jb///
on 13 Jan 2006 at 6:24 am6Peach

When our friends comment on that kind of thing you wonder if they are just being polite, but coming like that from our kids friends, then you know it’s sincere. Keep on grinnin’!
on 13 Jan 2006 at 11:58 am7FTS

Kids are like little Sagittarians, blurting out the first thing that pops into their head. LOL
on 13 Jan 2006 at 1:30 pm8Jolynn

Kids are so honest sometimes it’s embarrassing. We went to a bowling alley once with my sister. We walked in and it was really smokey. My son blurted out,”Gross, it stinks in here. It smells like your house Aunt Tracy.” I just laughed.
on 13 Jan 2006 at 1:58 pm9Paul N.

I just read this. You gotta read it, too.

http://www.fallible.com/index.php/fallible/comments/a_soapbox_moment/
on 13 Jan 2006 at 2:13 pm10Mike (exscientia)

And then you were standing a bit taller. Cute.
on 13 Jan 2006 at 4:26 pm11poopie

Somebody following me down the hall the other day asked if I was losing weight. I said “Do I look like it?” “From behind you do” she said. Gotta love it.
on 14 Jan 2006 at 12:00 pm12TSB

Has to make you feel good no matter what form it come in 🙂
on 14 Jan 2006 at 12:18 pm13Fred

Funny. I hear this type of stuff from high school kids all the time. They’re pretty blunt with their comments.
on 15 Jan 2006 at 6:58 pm14Paula

I’d be smiling all over the place! Good for you and for the kid!

BTW, re: your comment on my blog. You probably think mustard is weird, but there’s no way I could do mayo! LOL
on 16 Jan 2006 at 7:08 am15steelcowboyh

Happy Monday!
on 16 Jan 2006 at 9:56 pm16Simply Coll

I would be smiling from ear to ear. Yup.. out of the mouth of babes 🙂
on 16 Jan 2006 at 11:22 pm17Jamie Dawn

Kids give us the real truth, good or bad. They just call it like they see it.
I’m losing weight! Hooray! I look forward to when the full 20 pounds I needed to lose are gone… and I’m going to shoot for 25 to have some wiggle room. So far, I’ve lost 5. I’m on my way! I don’t want any kids I know to start pointing and saying, “Didn’t you used to be smaller?”