Angela Duckworth Quotes

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

I never asked my children to do something I didn't show them that I could also do.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.