Michelle Obama Quotes

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

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.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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

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

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

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.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

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.

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.

It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message.

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

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

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.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

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'm no role model.

Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

I've learned something about kids - they don't do what you say; they do what you do.