Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

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

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

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.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner. How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.