Book of Proverbs Quotes

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

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

He who spares the rod.

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

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

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

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.

I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

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

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

Attitudes about the rearing and education of children vary between two extremes. One, which might be labeled “authoritarian” or “coercive,” rests on an assumption that children are by nature irresponsible and lazy, and will do their schoolwork only if they are penalized for a poor performance. The opposite view might be labeled “progressive” or “democratic.” It rests on the assumption that children who are brought up with love, trust, and clear but kind leadership are eager to grow up and be like their parents, eager to explore, learn, master skills, and take on responsibility; they need guidance but not sternness or punishment.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

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

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.

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

[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

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.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.