Geena Davis Quotes

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

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.

Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.

Children become like the things they love.

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

The Lourie Center is an important model to consider...(in) mental health care... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

We must believe the things We teach our children

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

As the fathers live, so the children play.

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.