Constructive Discipline Quotes

Praise in public; rebuke in private.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.

Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.