Quotes About Discipline

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

I'm not going to go out there and throw the ball all around the park and throw it to the other team.

I'm up before 6, but then I'm parked in front of the PC until noon.

I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

I am very particular about cleansing.

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities.

I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

I did not have a normal life. I'd be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It's all about sacrifice.

I'm more disciplined now. The days of late-night parties are over.

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

I feel like I get opportunities that most people my age don't get. But, like, I can't do what most 18-year-olds do. Like, I can't go out partying all the time: I have to work and get up early.