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
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
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
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
The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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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