J. C. Ryle Quotes

As the fathers live, so the children play.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

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

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration, courtesy and manners are really key and I think the father plays a big role in setting an example to children in how to behave out in the world and how to treat people. It's a little bit different when it comes from the dad rather than the mum somehow.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

I really want my daughter to see that she can go out to work, but equally I want my sons to see it.

I read somewhere that your voice towards your children becomes their inner monologue. That was so interesting to me, and I think that pertains to 'Better Things' as well.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.