Cathy Rindner Tempelsman Quotes

We have a nanny in the house, but there are always times when one of my kids does something bad or wrong, and they'll listen to me more than they do the nanny. So I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for them at a young age, so they will know, 'I better listen to Mommy.'

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

I do not raise brats!

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

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.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Discipline is not a nasty word.