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I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

— Ayelet Waldman

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✓Similar Perspectives

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

— Ayelet Waldman

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

— Maurice Sendak

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

— Clay Aiken

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

— George Bernard Shaw

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

— Gunter Grass

When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.

— Johnny Depp

I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.

— Kate Winslet

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

— John Bradshaw

✗Opposing Perspectives

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

— Georges Bernanos

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

— Chris Christie