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
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
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more… — 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one… — 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
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 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
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
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process ofhelping a child learn self-discipline. — 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
