'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.