Brene Brown Quotes

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

One of the things I've learned is to be much more open about my frailties and about our failures, because when you show your kids how you can resolve conflict in your life in real time, you're giving them confidence that when they have conflicts, they can push through them.

The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

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 was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.

My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that's really important. I was very much influenced by that.

I read somewhere that your voice towards your children becomes their inner monologue. That was so interesting to me, and I think that pertains to 'Better Things' as well.

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

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

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.