Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.

My mother used to pat me instead of slapping me whenever I made a mistake.

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

Children need models rather than critics.

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.

I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline--from us and eventually from themselves.

The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.