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SELF-DISCIPLINE: Control of one's
action, emotions, and behavior; often in order to improve oneself
Vs. No self-control
- SUGGESTED READING:
Self Control Miss Nelson is Back
- SUGGESTED FILM:
Rudy Mr. Holland's Opus
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- Parents should encourage their children to control their feelings
so as to respect the rights of others.
- Parents should explain why family and societal rules make life
better for everyone when they are followed. This helps to show
children that rules are designed to be positive, not punitive.
- Take an active interest in your children's schoolwork from an
early age. By using parental discipline to get them into the habit
of doing their homework, and their schoolwork when they are young,
their self-discipline will keep them doing it when they are older.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Discuss with the class why class rules should be obeyed for
everyone's good.
- Students often break rules to "fit in" with their
friends. Discuss the problems associated with peer pressure and the
importance of resisting it to "be your own person."
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- High school students are making decisions that will mold their
lives. Discuss the importance of regulating their behavior
themselves and not surrendering to the will of others.
- Discuss the consequences of not controlling oneself and the danger
of hurting oneself and others through abusing alcohol and other
drugs.
"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint."
-James Russell Lowell
"Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself,
loses his misery" -Matthew Arnold
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which
he hears, however measured or far away." -Henry David Thoreau
"[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none."
-Benjamin Franklin
Perform a Random Act of Kindness Each Day
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