Kevin Leman Quotes

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

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Inspirational, Children, Sorry

Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.75, Baker Books

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How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

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Children, Years, Play

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Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don’t try to undo their failures. It’s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

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Jobs, Home, Kids

Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.20, Baker Books

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Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

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Wall, Remember You, Remembers You

Kevin Leman (2010). “Why Your Best Is Good Enough”, p.212, Revell

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Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.

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Sex, Sleep, Kids

Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.57, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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A fulfilling sex life is one of the most powerful marital glues a couple can have.

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Sex, Couple, Powerful

Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.45, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

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Sex, Couple, Needs

Kevin Leman (2011). “7 Things He'll Never Tell You: . . . But You Need to Know”, p.118, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

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Mom, Daughter, Sex

Kevin Leman (2014). “Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

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Past, Guilt, Problem

Kevin Leman (2011). “It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil: Creating a Happier & Less-Stressed Home”, p.182, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

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Children, Expectations

Dr. Kevin Leman (2013). “Have a New Kid By Friday Participant's Guide: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days (A Six-Session Study)”, Baker Books

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How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

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Children, Destiny, Circles

Kevin Leman (2009). “The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are”, p.30, Revell

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Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

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Baby, Morning, Love Is

Kevin Leman (1987). “Women who try too hard: breaking the pleaser habits”

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A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

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Husband, Sexually, Fulfilled

Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.46, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

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Life, Stressed, Pressure

Dr. Kevin Leman (2011). “Stopping Stress before It Stops You: A Game Plan for Every Mom”, p.22, Revell

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I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

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Children, Mistake, Believe

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Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

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Sex, Three, May

Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

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Women

Dr. Kevin Leman (2006). “Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle”, p.226, Baker Books

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Sex is all that it can and should be only when it is surrounded by and wrapped in love.

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Sex, Should

Kevin Leman (2006). “Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Creating Intimacy to Make Your Marriage Sizzle”, p.200, Revell

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The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

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Teenager, Years, Ideas

Dr. Kevin Leman (2011). “Have a New Teenager by Friday: How to Establish Boundaries, Gain Respect & Turn Problem Behaviors Around in 5 Days”, p.18, Baker Books

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Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

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Teenager, Argument, Darling

Kevin Leman (2011). “Have a New Teenager by Friday: From Mouthy and Moody to Respectful and Responsible in 5 Days”, p.135, Baker Books

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That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

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Mom, Dad, Sibling

Dr. Kevin Leman (2009). “Born to Win: Keeping Your Firstborn Edge without Losing Your Balance”, p.32, Baker Books

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I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

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Believe, Sight, Firsts

Kevin Leman (1992). “Were You Born for Each Other?: Finding, Catching, and Keeping the Love of Your Life”, Dell Books

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Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

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Mom, Mother, People

Dr. Kevin Leman (2012). “What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life”, p.196, Baker Books

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Born: September 1, 1943
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