Princess Morag's children speak the truth. Sometimes it's not exactly what you want to hear: "Mummy, you have a crinkly belly button"! But Princess Morag knows not to take offense because it wasn't intended to be offensive, it was just an observation. This is helping the princess to be better at hearing and speaking the truth without attaching judgement to it. Her daughter is not saying that a crinkly belly is a bad thing, it's just a crinkly thing, and that's true.
As they grow up, Princess Morag wants to help her children grow in the godly principle of speaking the truth in love. Which does mean considering the feelings of the person you are speaking to. The truth is a very powerful thing, and will sometimes cause offense, so we do have to be careful. But that is not to say we should hide from it, because then we do not really live, and do not really want the best for those we care about.
"Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church." (Ephesians 4:14-15, NLT)
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