A.G.
Im very honest with my daughter about things, my mom was with me and i consider her to have been the best mom ever. When my mother was young her penecostal parents lied to her about basically everything about life. She came into her own in very sad, shocking ways and she refused to do that to me. When i had had questions i received age appropriate answers, and serious topics were given special attention so that they could be fully understood.
She died when i was 8 and the lessons that i learned past that time were never as direct and they were never as appreciated. I always knew that i would try my best to be as honest as possible as my mom was with me to my children.
As a result my daughter knows she can ask me anything, and even though my daughter is 8 now and im in strange territory (mother/daughter familiarity with my upbringing, speaking) I hope that i will be able to contiue to do so, and that she knows that she will always get honesty from me.