What Am I Riddles

Question: The shorter I am, the bigger I am.

What am I?

Question: I can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

What am I?

Question: A father goes to prison and the mother will have to sell her hotel, but their young daughter is happy.

How can these parents tolerate such ingratitude and what put them in this situation?

Question: I am shorter when I stand and taller when I sit.
Sometimes I'm even called a pit.

What am I?

Question: Whoever makes me can hear me, but nobody else can.

What am I?