ALL ABOUT DAD by Dahlia Porter & Gabriel Cervantes

Author:Dahlia Porter & Gabriel Cervantes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Discipline

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

—Harold S. Hubert

As a father I had some trouble finding the words to separate the person from the deed. Usually, when one of my sons broke the rules or a window, I was too angry to speak calmly and objectively. My own solution was to express my feelings, but in an exaggerated, humorous way: “You do that again and you will be grounded so long they will call you Rip Van Winkle II,” or “If I hear that word again, I’m going to braid your tongue.”

—David Elkind

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

—Mark Twain

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

—George V

I’ll meet the raging skies, But not an angry father.

—Thomas Campbell

They were always reading the law to her at home, which might not have been so bad if her father and mother had read from the same book.

—Jessamyn West

When a father is indulgent, he is more indulgent than a mother. Little ones treat their mother as the authority of rule, and their father as the authority of dispensation.

—Frederick W. Faber

The best time to tackle a minor problem is before it grows up.

—Ray Freedman

The relationship of a parent with a teenager is shot through with ambiguities and hypocrisies, large and small—the child’s dependance and resentment, the parent’s self-indulgence and prohibitions. But somewhere within this uneasy mix, in the best of families . both parent and child know which lines should not be crossed; the child’s sense of privacy, the parent’s sense of propriety. A delicate balance preserved until, as adults, both sides can either laugh about it or forget it.

—Richard North Patterson

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward, Duke of Windsor

Most parents feel the keen embarrassment of having the infant misbehave . and they are apt to offer a tacit apology and a vague self-defense by sharply reprimanding the child in words that are meant to give the visitor the idea that they—the parents— never heard or saw such conduct before, and are now frozen with amazement.

—Agnes H. Morton

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.

—Bill Cosby

Fathers are blind to the faults of their daughters.

—Proverb

How easy a father’s tenderness recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish, at the slightest word of repentance!

—Molière

Pronouncements have been raised to a fine art by daddies, who use them to deflect a messy personal encounter while keeping everything under control.

—Signe Hammer

Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, gently.

—Chinese proverb

It is better to bind your child to you by a feeling of respect, and by gentleness, than by fear.

—Terence

An atmosphere of trust, love and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

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