Bruno Bettelheim Quotes

We must become the people we want our children to be.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

Children become like the things they love.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

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

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

Raise children who do the right things for the right reasons.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Children need models rather than critics.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

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

In the choice of companions be careful to seek the society of those only whose example is worthy of your imitation.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.