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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.