Lisa Whelchel Quotes

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

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.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created, and society preserved.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

It is by doing good that we become good.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

We're trying to raise good humans, and some days, we're better at it than others. You don't always get treats.

I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

By doing good we become good.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.