Jane Pauley Quotes

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

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

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

Example is the best precept.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

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

I never asked my children to do something I didn't show them that I could also do.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

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

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.

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 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.