One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. Fred Rogers More Quotes by Fred Rogers More Quotes From Fred Rogers Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world. Fred Rogers differencesspaceworld My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why. Fred Rogers dogmotherchildren Peace means far more than the opposite of war. Fred Rogers oppositeswarmean Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. Fred Rogers empathyunderstandinglove-is Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. Fred Rogers parentpregnancypast The child is in me still and sometimes not so still. Fred Rogers stillssometimeschildren I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning. Fred Rogers discoveringimportantpersons It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God Fred Rogers mistakelovethinking What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too. Fred Rogers helping-otherswinningpeople When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. Fred Rogers motherfunboys As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults. Fred Rogers uniquecaringchildren I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline. Fred Rogers selfchildrenthinking Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed. Fred Rogers independentchildrenpeople In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred. Fred Rogers sacredneighborappreciate There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. Fred Rogers self-confidenceself-loveself-esteem We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing. Fred Rogers nightmemorieschildren Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. Fred Rogers strivelosingwinning The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor. Fred Rogers parentinghelping-otherschildren I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us. Fred Rogers giving-uplittlesbelieve Play is really the work of childhood. Fred Rogers children-playingchildhoodplay
