Quotes About Role modeling

We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

Parents are responsible for 40 to 50 percent of a child's habits. Children are greatly influenced, not just by their parents' efforts at persuasion, but also by their behavior.

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

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.

Everytime a woman looks in a mirror and criticizes her body, a girl is watching.

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Your child will learn to respect and value the needs and feelings of others by watching the choices you make.

The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.

With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.

I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

Generally, honesty is conveyed to our kids through our actions, not our commands. We need to step back and analyze the model we are presenting to our kids.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

Boys who see their fathers beat their mothers will likely grow up to be men who beat their wives.