Amanda Peet Quotes

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

My wife, Melissa, and I, together with our neighbors, try to create experiences for our kids that build character. We want our kids to exercise their muscles and their minds.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream.

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.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.