Gurpreet Ghuggi Quotes

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.

I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.

I hope all the kids out there who don't like listening to their mothers, who yell and scream at them, that moms are always right just so you guys know.

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

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.