Completely agree.

I knew I was fucked the moment I read the first word. 🤭

I start with good intentions but then something else com

I read a study, that I wheel out to students often, that looked at the adolescent traits of successful people.

Self-control as a child was the key element for succes later in life.

The lack of discipline is hurting society.

It is very important to be able to keep working at something even when it is difficult.

We had 5 kids. 4 are engineers (two ChemE's, Materials, and Electrical) and one a teacher for a year turned property owner (25 owns 3 houses).

All killing it.

When someone asks how we did it I say, "Never do ANYTHING for your kids they can do for themselves."

This includes giving them money when they could have a job. They WORKED for everything. NONE of them graduated from College with any debt - one had $50K in the bank when she graduated from college.

Required to read daily K-12, and did a LOT of homework we gave them outside of school (math and reading).

Were not allowed to have a car until they read "Atlas Shrugged" and gave me a rundown what they heard. And I needed to hear the right things or they would read it again.

If I had to name one thing. Raising your kids to make their OWN decisions. In a round about way we are saying the same things. The question is how do you teach discipline and consistency? The answer is never do for a child what they can do for themselves (which is much harder than it sounds). They will fail from time to time and you can't bail them out. It hurts.