Quotes About Discipline

I cannot make my kids obey. But I can control my responses to their disobedience—that is, I can respect their choices and provide wise consequences for their actions, so they can learn just as much about wisdom from disobeying as from obeying. And I can respond in ways that create an environment in which their poor choices are their problem.

Your most scarce resource is focus.

Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice—even giving up one's life.

Like most soldiers, he'd wielded a Black and Decker steam iron far more frequently than an M16.

Punctuality is an obsession with the Japanese

dds are you've picked up this book because you're fed up with your child's distracted behavior. You're tired of the missed homework

But passively waiting for your child to outgrow his defiant behavior will just make the problem worse and not solve it. It's our job as parents to help our children learn appropriate behavior, not to enable poor behavior by making excuses for it.

How a family reacts to a child's behavior and how a child is disciplined also play a big role in the development of defiant behaviors. The

When you meditate consistently and with proper instructions and effort, you are training yourself to overcome the power of old habits. In particular, the habits of inattention, distraction, and absence

Changing the habits of inattention and distraction we have developed over a lifetime is hard work.

Change cannot be hit-or-miss. It requires constant practice.

asceticism or starvation

When clans of yore went out for a meal in my day, there were no crayons, no sippy cups, no serving little Jennifer's unsauced spaghetti early. Generation X kids conducted themselves like tiny civilized sophisticates, because if we misbehaved, we'd enjoy a spanking for dessert instead of the triple-layer chocolate cake

I ate a specific amount of food at certain times every day. This meant filling out a little form listing what I ate and taking it to my weekly dietary appointment.

On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again.

If you want to hit someone or you want to throw something, I want you to run first. I want you to run until you can hardly lift your legs and your arms. Run until you're exhausted, and then, if you still want to hit someone or throw something, you just wait 'til you've caught your breath again and then go for it. Try it

mom about the fight, and he'd be grounded or worse. Maybe his mom wouldn't even give him his Christmas

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you day in and day out that makes the difference.

It's not what you do once in a while it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

read the prescription.  It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand."   I followed the directions, with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on.

I read the prescription.  It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. 

self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.