John Lyly Quotes

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn't really an option to become spoiled brats.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.

I need to raise my kids. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to raise kids and make men of them these days. I don't want them to be lazy and just spend their father's money.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

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

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

It's never too late to make the right decision in your life. I want fathers to go grab their sons, tell them you love them and be more involved in their lives.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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 the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.