Bob Keeshan Quotes

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

As the fathers live, so the children play.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.