Yul Vazquez Quotes

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

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.

Children need models rather than critics.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

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.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

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.

My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

As a father, you want to protect, but I also want to prepare her for when she grows up, so I want to be a great example as a dad.

I've got to be a guide to my kids. Nobody else is going to do it.

I'm all about living however you want, but if you make the decision to get married and have children, then you have an obligation to raise them in an environment that isn't going to ruin them, warp their perception of the world, or close doors for them.

If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

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

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

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.

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.