Ben Carson Quotes

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

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

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

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.

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

Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.

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

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

I think there's different parenting styles.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

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

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

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.

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.