Chanakya Quotes

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

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.

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

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

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

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

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

Discipline socialized children. They became tolerable to those who didn’t already love them.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.

He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.