“Adam’s sin includes us. We are sinners by nature, bad to the bone from the very first moment—bad to the bone before we have any bones.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 4

“The fact that the sweet child in the cradle hasn’t started smoking cigarettes or pounding shots does not signify anything. You say, ‘Oh, they look so sweet, they look so innocent.’ But five years later, they are out terrorizing the neighborhood, acting like a cross between a hobgoblin and a bobcat.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 4

“Children do not begin in some neutral place. They do not start out innocent. As my father used to say, with great affection, ‘Babies are little bundles of sin.’ All that is necessary for the sinning to start is the requisite muscle strength and intelligence. Once the muscle strength and intelligence are there, the sinning starts. And sometimes it starts a little bit before that.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 3

“If the father uses the rod judiciously, his son will not die—sound effects notwithstanding.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 2