Abby Lee Miller Quotes

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

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.

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

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

I hope all the kids out there who don't like listening to their mothers, who yell and scream at them, that moms are always right just so you guys know.

My father gave me discipline.

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.

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.

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

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

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

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

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

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.

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.

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.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.