Bertrand Russell Quotes

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.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

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.

Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.

Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

Tell the children the truth.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.