Dionne Bromfield Quotes

I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.

My very first system was the Sega Genesis back when I was 7 or 8 years old. I played that into the ground. Like, my parents had to confiscate it and put it in attic, the whole thing.

If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't get an email from someone who is angry with me and tells me they're not going to let their kid listen to Imagine Dragons anymore.

I've never been anything than a blond my whole life. There was one time when I dyed the ends pink. My father said if I ever did that again, he'd shave my head and keep me home 'til it grew back.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.

When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

My mum was quite strict, so I was in a very strict household.

Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.

I remember my dad bought me my first phone when I finished school. I was a fresher in college, and at that time, it was mainly to keep a track of what I was doing and where I was going.