Brian Tracy Quotes

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

I spend a lot of time with my children. I like to go to the country with them, where we can spend hours walking in the woods and talking. That's more important to me than anything else.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Family time is really important to me.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

Instead of giving your children more things, give them more time.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

Family time means so much to me.

I want my weekends back so I can be with my kids.

Spending time in the kitchen together with my children, it's huge.

The memories we make with our family is everything.

In Malaysia, with my dad, the only time I really spent time with him was when we had dinner back at the hotel, in the room, just me and him. That was good, to have him there, just before going to bed, to have a chat.

I spend a lot of time at home with my kids.

I'm a family man. I really enjoy being with my family.

You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.