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Sydney J. Harris Quotes about Children

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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Sydney J. Harris
Mom, Children, Memories
Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Sydney J. Harris
Children, Parent
Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris
Mother, Children, Believe

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

Sydney J. Harris
Children, Philosophy, Men

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

Sydney J. Harris
Teacher, Children, Mistake

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

Sydney J. Harris
Children, Differences, Roles
Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Sydney J. Harris
Children, Independent, Omnipotence
Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Sydney J. Harris
Children, Mistake, Lying
Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

Sydney J. Harris
Children, Father, Team
"Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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