Quotes About Role-modeling

Don't tell your children how to live, live and let them watch you do it.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

Never be a hypocrite in language or action. Core values are those your children will come to see as the true morality. And with them, and your guidance, your children will respect you, and you will respect yourself.

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

When it comes to girls, the greatest gift you can give to the young man is to watch you love your wife.

To see you in love is far more powerful than any other lesson. A picture is worth a thousand words. It's important that your sons see your physical affection, to see you kiss, cuddle on the couch, hold hands in public. Oh, sure—they'll say they're "grossed out," tell you to "get a room." But they are watching and learning.

Elizabeth and her younger sisters, Claude and Marguerite, followed their mother's example.

Change must begin with the parent. In Deuteronomy 6:6, God tells parents, "these words that I command you today shall be on your heart." Our children need to see in our own lives daily what we want to see in theirs.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.