Greg Boyle Quotes

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

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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

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.

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

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.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

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.

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.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

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

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

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.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

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.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.