Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes

If you draw [red] lines and then don't respect them, you diminish your credibility.

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

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

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

Actions lie louder than words.

Punish the first insult: because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others.

Our sword must not be made of wood ... we must follow up on our threats if our demands are not obeyed.

If you threaten force, you better be ready to use it.

Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must learn to stand on their own two feet.

You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?' 'This homework needs more work,' and the inevitable was, 'How fast were you really going?'

I do not raise brats!

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

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

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Let's not talk punishment.