Child Perception Quotes

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'

Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown-up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents' decision to live apart.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.