Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
When you look at children, they're so beautiful, and they seem so peaceful because their faces aren't all wrinkly and worried. They're like beautiful little pieces of pottery or something. You want to think they have this peace because they have no big responsibilities, but it's just not true.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
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