Brene Brown Quotes

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

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.

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

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

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

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.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

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.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

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.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

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

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

Make sure that your children don't follow you if you go to sin.

Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.