Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

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 haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

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

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

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

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.

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

When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.

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.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

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

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

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

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

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

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.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

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

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.

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.

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

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.