Rudolf Steiner Quotes

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Children learn what they live.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Children need models rather than critics.

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.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.