Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Often parents know what's best for their kids without having to learn from others.

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

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

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

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

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

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

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.

To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your family—you have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.

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