Daniel Badger’s Reviews > Start with the Heart: How to Motivate Your Kids to Be Compassionate, Responsible, and Brave > Status Update

When you are optimistic and positive you can encourage your children. They will be inspired and confident. They will want to be with you. They’ll more regularly seek your opinion and care about your input. They’ll admit when they struggle and ask for help rather than lying and hiding from you.

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

When you teach AND coach children, you earn the right to cheer. They resent parents who cheer “you can do it!” When they haven’t helped them “do it.”

Five things in my lifetime I want to: be, do, have, and help.

Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating. Katrina Gutleben.

Kids who value learning will have a much richer and more successful life. Learning is not just important for children in school. Learning matters forever.

Children rarely run from a home where their needs are met. Who would want to walk out on a relationship in which he feels loved and respected? What child would run from someone who understands him, understands God and his ways, understands the world and how it works and is committed to helping him be successful.