Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you are young, you are a little naive.
It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
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.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.