Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

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.

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

I never asked my children to do something I didn't show them that I could also do.

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

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.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

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.

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

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.

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

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.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

I think as parents you want to at least try to provide a good example to your kids. So yeah, I feel like a complete hypocrite if I'm telling my son to try new things and not be afraid and I'm shying away from doing a dancing show for Pete's sake. On some level, you're at least being a good example for your kids.

My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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.

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

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

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.

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