Gloria Estefan Quotes

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

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.

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

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 wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

We are our children's first teachers.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.