The open honesty of children amazes me. It also makes me smile. As my years among the children have proven, what they think they say. I know this from experience. I’ve been told that they don’t like ...

From childhood, honesty is framed as a moral north star. Tell the truth. Don’t lie. Say what you mean, no matter the cost. But adult relationships quickly expose the limits of that lesson. Instead of ...

“Honesty is the best policy,” as the saying goes. That expression, widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, holds as true today as it did two centuries ago. Some University of Missouri faithful are ...

“I don’t think my child understands the importance of honesty,” a mother once said to me, after she found her child lying about eating Halloween candy that had been made off-limits. We teach children ...

Being honest is a great quality; no one can deny it. But today if people in public life practice pure honesty, this should be considered as something extraordinary. Not only this, if someone sets an ...

When I was a young schoolboy, I remember my mother packing my brown-bag lunch with an apple and a sandwich, which I ate each day at St. Michael’s Catholic School in Lynn, Massachusetts. I was ...