Roseanne Barr Quotes

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

Don’t swear; fight!

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

Losing your patience and your temper isn't the most attractive thing, but as kids get older, you wind up raising your voice.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

'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 get angry at a principle, not a person.

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.'

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Never give a Blow in a passion. Stay till your passion is over; and let the Offenders plainly see, that you deal thus with them, out of a pure Obedience unto God, and for their true Repentance.