Quotes About Role-modeling

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

Imitation is absolutely crucial for childrearing. You do not want your children imitating you unless you are imitating God.

I want to give the girls who admire us everything I can. I don't want to just fill them with selfies and crap. That's not what I'm about. I'm about, 'Be aware of the world and that you're not the only one in it.'

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modeling self-destructive behavior, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt. And in the end you will want to quit, like Greg, or be forced to by your body.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

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

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself.

Insisto en que los padres no deben olvidar que son los primeros educadores y que educan más por lo que hacen que por lo que dicen.

If you want your children to eat better, don't tell them what to do; eat better yourself.

Our kids are reflections of us. How we interact with others, even in a hostile situation... how we respond and our children see that is how they are going to respond.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.

We need to be the adults we want our children to be.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.