“I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.” MindI CanCountryKidsSupportAchieveExample Author:Maria Sharapova
“Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?” IfsShouldFirstsShowsKidsEasyExampleDivorceCivility Author:Dawn French
“I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.” KidsFourWifeExampleHusband Author:Rick Nielsen
“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.” WellsChildrenKidsLanguageGrowsParentGrowing UpExampleSkillsViolentLenientLanguage Skills Author:Steven Pinker
“I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private-school kids. I want them to behave well by example. I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantBelieveWellsChildrenKidsSchoolGirlI BelieveNiceExampleImportanceBehaveRudeMy GirlPrivate SchoolSpoiltImportance Of Education Author:Wendi Deng Murdoch
“I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.” LongKidsWorryFocusExamplePastaGood Examples Author:Mia Hamm
“There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.” KidsSchoolCertainExampleHigh SchoolDetailsRays Author:Daniel Clowes
“I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.” IfsEndsMomentsBigsMightKidsNightEnjoyExampleSweetAmountCoupleConsciousDenyCoffeeTeethIceBowlsCreamIce CreamCravingMugSweet ToothCoffee Mug Author:Summer Sanders
“Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.” PlayKidsExampleActive Author:Summer Sanders
“I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'” KnowsLooksHomeRunningKidsExampleSonMomExerciseSkinsMy SonComing HomeSweatBikeHelmetSweating Author:Summer Sanders
“If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.” IfsGivingWisdomKidsLastsFamilyGenerationsExampleFoodHealthMomFitAnxietyEthicsLifetimeDietsJeans Author:Bethenny Frankel
“I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.” ThinkingKidsExampleIncredibles Author:Woody Harrelson
“Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.” StatesHelpingHomeKidsPurposeEconomyExampleCollegeAccountsFundCapitalistBank AccountsCapitalist Economy Author:Noam Chomsky
“Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.” ThinkingTryingKidsExamplePicks Author:Mark Martin
“My priority as a father should always remain first. My kids look to me as their example. Every decision I make and everything that I do always has to come back to the question, "Does this make me a better father?" "Will my kids benefit from this?" It's no longer just about me…but about my kids. My perspective in life has changed.” ShouldFirstsLooksDoeKidsFatherDecisionExampleChangedPerspectiveBenefitsPrioritiesLife Has Changed Author:Dwyane Wade
“Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.” PeopleKindKidsExampleThese DaysStand For Something Author:Angela Davis
“The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're given by having a child like that in your film... more so than in the case of actors because, for example, if you ask them to play a lion, they don't then play a lion, they actually are a lion. So, a gifted child is something very special. On the other hand, if a child has no gifts in that way it's absolutely hopeless and there's nothing you can do!” IfsWayChildrenPlayHandsKidsFilmActorsAsksGivenCan DoCasesWonderfulSpecialExamplePatientHopelessLionsGiftedGifted Children Author:Michael Haneke
“I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.” KidsPastFunWeekExampleSummerAdultsNineCamps Author:Wavy Gravy
“I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.” WayTryingI CanKidsMistakeExamplePlentyRight WayDo The Best Author:John Salmons
“When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.” GivingKidsAchieveExampleCommitmentSticksFantasticGiving Back Author:Maria Sharapova
“I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.” IdeasDifferentHardWould BeKidsUsedNightFoundSpeakParentRealizingExampleBedTenToolsLettersFaultsDumbAll NightResentAlphabetSpeak EnglishUp All NightLetters Of The Alphabet Author:Paul Reiser
“Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!” IfsKnowsMindDoeKidsStarsMy OwnRoomsExampleDadStandingMilesGoing OutStanding ThereNicole Author:Lionel Richie
“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanShowsKidsFacesThreeFunPerfectLaughingExampleBabyHundredRidiculousSuitsPianoShirtsToysPresentationAssemblySailorMacsPranksBaby Pictures Author:Jory John
“For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website?” WantNeedsWritingKindKidsWantedFoundExampleNewsVideoAssumptionEditorsArticlesWant MeGigsWebsiteInsultingYou Want Me Author:Astra Taylor
“Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.” KnowsMadeKidsPerfectMistakeExampleExpectingMade A MistakeI Made A Mistake Author:Ginuwine
“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.” ThinkingMenWorldStillsCareKidsChristianYoungMotherFatherStrongInspiringExampleTaughtSixTake CareGood ManMothers DayBe YoungYoung Ladies Author:Magic Johnson
“I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.” ThinkingChildrenImportantShowsKidsExampleTheoryHeroActive Author:John Assaraf
“There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.” IfsThinkingWantWellsChildrenKidsExampleFineKissingClassicTrendsAuntVisitorsKiss MeChild RearingAbhorrentGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson