Francis Quarles Quotes

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

Withold not Correction from the Child; for if thou beatest him with the Rod, he shall not Die; Thou shalt beat him with the Rod, and shalt deliver his Soul from Hell

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.