Poem: Children are lie Detectors

SAVE THE CHILDREN

Children are a paradox.
Their innocence ensures their honesty,
and makes them good lie detectors and truth reporters.

This perennial paradox is memorialized in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale,
The Emperor’s New Clothes,
which contrasts the real perception of a child with the surreal self-deception of adults.

How ironic that adults must fear and feign the sincerity they once enjoyed as children.

To quote Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,

“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.”

Hugh Mann
hughmann@organicMD.org
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