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I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.