Harper Lee Quotes

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.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.

Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.

It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."