Parental Role Modeling Quotes

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

I really want my daughter to see that she can go out to work, but equally I want my sons to see it.

If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that's me not doing my job.

We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.