Ron Finley Quotes

I think children learn through their parents.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

There's no question that aggression can be learned through modeling. When a child sees her parent behave in a particular way, she may be tempted or even rewarded for being that way.

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

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

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.