Max Lucado Quotes

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

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

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

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

I don’t want the Government to teach my kids’ family values.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

Fathers should speak with their children.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

Always remember your kid's name.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.