From my absolute favorite parenting-related magazine: Brain, Child. In the last issue they asked parents to write in with the funniest tact-free things your child has said. This one had me cracking up:

“We were eating dinner one evening and the subject of hair color came up. My seven-year-old son Caleb asked, “Why do people call my hair ‘strawberry blonde’?”

“Well, I said, “I think it means that people think your hair is a little blonde and a little red, like a strawberry.” He thought for a moment, looked at me and my mousy, neglected, brownish-blondish hair, and said very matter-of-factly, “I think your hair looks like a decayed apple.” I made a salon appointment that day.

-Kim Bartlett

Bound Brook, NJ