Erik Erikson Quotes

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

It's fun when your kids reach a point where you can actually start talking about things.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

I read somewhere that your voice towards your children becomes their inner monologue. That was so interesting to me, and I think that pertains to 'Better Things' as well.

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.

I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

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.

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

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.