Fred Rogers 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.

I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

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.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love them all equally, but they're all so different from each other and that's the cool thing, to see their personalities start to develop and see how unique and different they all are and to be able to love them in their own unique ways. It's really, really, really special.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.