Brené Brown Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Adults, Courageous

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin

• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

• Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Stronger, World

  "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead". Book by Brené Brown, September 11, 2012.

• The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

  Brené Brown

  Children, Growing Up, Way

  "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead". Book by Brené Brown, January 17, 2013.

• Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Adults, Want

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.177, Penguin

• Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Caring, Parent

• The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Real, Mistake

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin

• First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Kindness, Adults

• We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Stressed, Adults

• We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Children, Book

• We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Tolerance

• Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

  Brené Brown

  Children, Growing Up, Adults

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.177, Penguin

• We cannot give our children what we don’t have.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Giving, Our Children

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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