There's a whole bunch of other young parents that are just like me. I need to be a great example.
We must become the people we want our children to be.
My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.
I've learned something about kids - they don't do what you say; they do what you do.
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.
My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.
I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.
Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.
My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.
I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.
Over the years, I think, more and more, I've come to recognize that my parents - not in a didactic or explicit way, but in a very powerful way by their example - gave me a sense that government could be a force for good.
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.
See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
My dad was good with actions.
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.
The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?
