Children's Perception Quotes

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?" Stuart Bagget

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to think of a farm as a place where animals wander around freely in idyllic conditions might be able to live out their entire lives without ever being forced to revise this rosy image.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

If you are agitated, children tend to think that they have done something wrong.

If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that's a good thing, not a bad one.

One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not infused with morals or a message, either, and kids like that.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.