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Have you ever bribed offered a reward to your child to encourage him/her to attain a goal?

A couple of years ago, my kids wanted new computers. So I made a deal with them: I agreed to buy the new computers when the school year ended — they wanted them for their summer vacation when they could play a certain game — if they achieved an agreed-upon grade point average.

All that semester, they asked me repeatedly, as they proudly showed me their graded tests and papers, “Mom, if we keep this up, we’re going to get our computers, right?”

“Absolutely,” I would tell them as I posted more “A” papers on the refrigerator.

“You would be so pretty if only you would lose weight.”

I remember how their eyes lit up when the UPS truck stopped in front of the house and the driver rang the doorbell with a big smile on his face.

“Did somebody here get good grades?” he asked as he brought in the boxes.

But have you ever bribed your child to lose weight?

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There is a meme making its way around the blog world: “Ten Lies My Mother Told Me.” When I first discovered it, I reada few of the responses. Some of them were really clever and funny. Some more serious.

But the meme itself and those responses got me started thinking about my childhood experiences and my relationship with my mother vis a vis my weight and self-image.

After considering those topics for a few days now, I can only remember one lie that my mother ever told me.

You might be saying, “Wow, that’s amazing” or thinking that senility has set in and I’m simply unable to recall all the lies she told me over the years. Perhaps you’re even thinking that I’ve repressed the lies — little, white or other — she told me in the deep recesses of my brain and, perhaps through intense psychotherapy, they could be retrieved and examined.

Wrong on all counts.

My mother was simply a straight-up, honest — blunt — person. “Boy, that apple landed close to the tree,” you’re thinking.

The Lie

She told me only one thing that wasn’t true, but she did so repeatedly over the course of many years, even when I was well into adulthood:

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Today I came to the realization that it was time to do something I have been putting off: I got a box, labeled it “fat clothes” and started lobbing clothing items into it.

Why would I want to put off doing that, you ask?

Because I’ve been down this road before. And I’ve had to go looking for the “fat clothes” box, dig those clothes out and start wearing them again when the weight went back on.

And I don’t want to go down that road again.

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