Erich Fromm Quotes

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what's out there.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn't really an option to become spoiled brats.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

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

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.