The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!
I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.
Act as if you are the person you want to be.
I don't have a role model.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.
If I can be a role model for kids, then that's fantastic. That's what I want to do.
Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.
The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.
Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
I was lucky to be my dad's daughter, and I'm forever grateful to have Jann Arden as a strong role model in my life.
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
I'm a role model to a lot of kids.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.
