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It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.

Fred Rogers

Children, Believe, Generations

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What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?

Fred Rogers

Thinking, People, Insecurity

"Mister Rogers' Money Tips" by Dayana Yochim, www.fool.com. January 20, 2006.

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Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.

Fred Rogers

Children, Fighting, Perfect

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It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline--from us and eventually from themselves.

Fred Rogers

Children, Discipline, Healthy

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The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Fred Rogers

Children, Sometimes, Stills

Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.45, Hachette UK

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[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

Fred Rogers

Children, Support, Understanding

Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

Fred Rogers

Funny, Music, Humor

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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

Mother, Fun, Boys

Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.93, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

Fred Rogers

Friendship, People, Share

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More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

Fred Rogers

Children, Often Is, Dancing

Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.86, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

Fred Rogers

Giving Up, Thinking, People

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Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

Fred Rogers

Pain, Zoom, Tape

"The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember".

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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Fred Rogers

Children, Holiday, Suspense

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.

Fred Rogers

Children, Motivation, Powerful

Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.68, Penguin

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Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.

Fred Rogers

Giving, Wish, Needs

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I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

Fred Rogers

Children, Kids, Thinking

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I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

Fred Rogers

Believe, People, Feelings

Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Fred Rogers

Children, Thinking, Self

Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.63, Penguin

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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

Mother, Dog, Children

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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

Fred Rogers

Thinking, Feelings, Want

Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.18, Penguin

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For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

Fred Rogers

Couple, Pain, Children

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Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

Fred Rogers

Differences, Vermont, States

Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

Fred Rogers

Doe, Development

Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.122, Penguin

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Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Fred Rogers

Letting Go, Money, People

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In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of — moments when we human beings can say, “I love you” ... “I'm proud of you” ... “I forgive you” ... “I'm grateful for you” ... “Whether you win anything or not, you still have great value.” That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.

Fred Rogers

Eye, Evening, Eternity

"You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor".

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Born: March 20, 1928
Died: February 27, 2003
Occupation: Educator
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