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
The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to… — 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
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly… — 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
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. — 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
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
It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste… — 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
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can… — 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
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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