Brene Brown Quotes

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.

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

I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

My daughter was four when I married Mihir. I share everything with her and I respect her emotions. She has adjusted quite well.

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.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.