Joseph Joubert Quotes

Children have more need of models than of critics.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

We need to offer great examples to our youth.

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

As parents, we all want the best for our children.

We need to have our children look up to real role models.

A mother plays a very important role in every child's life.

I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.

I was lucky to have parents and people who believed in me.

My mother has been very instrumental in shaping up my career. Whatever I am today is because of her. Because I didn't have a father, she played both the roles of a mother and a father in my life.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.