“Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.” — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process ofhelping a child learn self-discipline. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
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
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline. — 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
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
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
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
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
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my… — 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
[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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — 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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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