Quotes About Discipline

If you allow unholy anger to muddy the correction process, you are wrong. You need to ask for forgiveness. Your right to discipline your children is tied to what God has called you to do, not to your own agenda.

The person who is comfortable with the rod can fall into the distortion of being authoritarian. A parent for whom communication is natural and easy may tend toward permissiveness. Authoritarian parents tend to lack kindness. Permissive parents tend to lack firmness. Assess which distortion of biblical training you would tend toward. Strive for greater balance.

As a parent, you must exercise authority. You must require obedience of your children because they are called by God to obey and honor you. You must exercise authority, not as a cruel taskmaster, but as one who truly loves them.

los niños, por lo general, no se rebelan contra la autoridad que es verdaderamente bondadosa y abnegada.

our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline.

Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.

If authority best describes the parent's relationship to the child, the best description of the activity of the parent to the child is shepherding.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15).

Correction is not displaying your anger at their offenses; it is rather reminding them that their sinful behavior offends God.

Clear directives and thorough reinforcement are essential. Never allow your children to disobey without dealing with them. When they disobey, they are moving out of the circle of God's blessing into a place of grave peril. If you understand the fear of the Lord, you will not allow your child to ignore God's law without intervening. Your intervention is turning him back into the circle of blessing.

Respectful teenagers are developed when they are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, not at 13, 14, 15, or 16.

Teach your children that ungodly behavior begins with ungodly attitudes of heart, but godly behavior begins with godly attitudes of heart. Below

All behavior is linked to attitudes of the heart. Therefore, discipline must address attitudes of the heart. This

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs 15:32).

A young child does not give proper weight to words alone. His attention is secured when those words are punctuated by a sound spanking.

Our central objective in instruction, discipline and correction is heart change, not behavior change. This profoundly shapes how we view consequences.

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs

You must regard parenting as one of your most important tasks while you have children at home. This is your calling. You must raise your children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. You cannot do so without investing yourself in a life of sensitive communication in which you help them understand life and God's world.

All behavior is linked to attitudes of the heart. Therefore, discipline must address attitudes of the heart.

I have spoken to many parents who feared they were producing little hypocrites who were proud and self-righteous. Hypocrisy and self-righteousness is the result of giving children a keepable law and telling them to be good. To the extent they are successful, they become like the Pharisees....The genius of Phariseeism was that it reduced the law to a keepable standard of externals that any self-disciplined person could do. In their pride and self-righteousness, they rejected Christ.

The purpose for your authority in the lives of your children is not to hold them under your power, but to empower them to be self-controlled people living freely under the authority of God.

The parent can change his mind in the context of respectful appeal, but not in the presence of blatant rebellion.

The only safe guide is the Bible. It is the revelation of a God who has infinite knowledge and can therefore give you absolute truth. God has given you a revelation that is robust and complete. It presents an accurate and comprehensive picture of children, parents, family life, values, training, nurture, and discipline - all you need to be equipped for the task of parenting.

It's easy to slip back. You have to be disciplined.