Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. .… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. — Fred Rogers Copy Share
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us. — Fred Rogers Copy Share
The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
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