Barack Obama Quotes

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

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.

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.

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

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.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

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

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.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

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.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

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.