Robert Fulghum Quotes

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

I never told my kids, 'You've got to work hard.' I just worked hard, and they followed my example.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

I've learned something about kids - they don't do what you say; they do what you do.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

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