Tina Knowles Quotes

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

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

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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.

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

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

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.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

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.

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.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

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.

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

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.

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

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.