Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

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

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.

Military people do not get what they want by being emotional.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

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

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

The only thing I command is respect.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

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.

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.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

I don't think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.

I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

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.