Family Discipline Quotes

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

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

Fitness is basically a way of life for me. I enjoy being fit and because of that, there is a complete discipline in my family too.

You should be an example for your children. I show my three children what I am and expect them to live by certain controls. But, by the grace of god, they are good kids.

My dad was a career military man, so I had that kind of discipline and training.

Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of prodding five children to practice every day, she kept me practicing despite my whining.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother...all the men of the city shall stone him with stones, that he die...

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

My mum was quite strict, so I was in a very strict household.

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

We see the worth and appreciate the discipline my father inculcated in us.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.

My dad was assistant governor of the prison, so there were times when he would bring some of that discipline home. He was the enforcer, whereas my mother, who was a stay-at-home mum, was always the pacifier.

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.

If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.