Topic: Discipline

4 chapters across the catalog

100: Hard R
3:34:35 - 3:38:41

100: Hard R

The 30-Day Mental Control Test

The segment outlines a 30-day test for taking control of the mind by replacing fearful thoughts with positive goals. Nightingale posits that only 5% of people are successful because only 5% truly think for themselves. Mo Facts encourages listeners to join this 5% by giving more of themselves and maintaining a cheerful outlook.

51: Civil Wrongs
2:23:21 - 2:31:31

51: Civil Wrongs

Bob Woodson on the Strength of the Black Community

Bob Woodson, founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, describes the high level of community cohesion and moral standards in Black neighborhoods prior to 1959. He notes that 78% of Black families had both a man and a woman in the home and that discipline was a community-wide responsibility. Woodson argues that the sense of oneness between the school and the community was more important than the income level of the residents.

28: Black Don't Crack
47:29 - 52:07

28: Black Don't Crack

Broken Families, Newark Police Detective Shahid Jackson

A 1986 report on Newark, New Jersey, examines the breakdown of the nuclear family and its role in the drug epidemic. Detective Shahid Jackson is profiled as a mentor who uses "unsentimental love" and discipline to keep youth away from the streets. The discussion emphasizes the lack of male role models in inner-city households as a contributing factor to the crisis.

04: Facts and Fallacies
1:12:49 - 1:17:10

04: Facts and Fallacies

Fatherhood, Discipline, and the Street Culture

Detective Shahid Jackson of the Newark Police emphasizes the importance of two-parent households and male role models in preventing youth from turning to the streets. He argues that children need discipline and "unsentimental love" to navigate life's rules. The discussion expands to show how gang cultures, such as MS-13 or radical groups in the Middle East, specifically target fatherless or orphaned children to provide a surrogate family structure for exploitation.