Fred Rogers Quotes

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

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

Love is the part of us that is real.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

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

You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

Once you act with someone, who gives you so much to feed off of, you just have to be there and be yourself, and it comes out.