Ziggy Marley Quotes

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.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

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.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

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.

Believing that your parents are always right.

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

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

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.

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

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.

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

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

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

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.

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

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

The severe household has no fierce slaves, while it is the affectionate mother who has the prodigal son.

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.