Quotes About Role-modeling

I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

We tend to crib about kids being addicted to phones all the time, but the truth is that it is the parents who are the root cause of such behavior, because they are usually the original addicts.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

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

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

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.

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

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

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

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

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

I think that when moms just give themselves up, the kids know. They feel guilty; they resent their mother for making them feel guilty, and then they grow up and do the same thing. Whereas my mother showed me that it's okay to focus on yourself.