[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
As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same… — 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
There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for… — 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 presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
You know you don't have to be an actor when you read a book to a child. All you need is to… — 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
My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was… — 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 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
We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I think people who produce and perform on programs for children should have as a prerequisite some sort of course to understand… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.… — 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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