Parents: If I have children of my own and they ask me to be honest even if it hurts, should I be brutally honest with them?

My mom was a brutally honest women and will tell you the truth, even it it's painful. My dad is too. My brothers and I are brutally honest with each other. I guess we got it from them.
Anyways when I kid gets older like elementary school and middle school, should I be brutally honest with them? I don't wanna sugarcoat life and the hardships of things. I don't want them bitching at me for not telling them the truth.

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St0ut · 51-55, M

Give them the information as soon as they are mature enough. I.e I never censored what my kids listen to or watch. But if I heard the word fuck in a song they where listening too then we discusss why it’s in that song and what’s it meaning is.

Carlo b saying fuck you is A lot different than rage against the machine saying fuck you