Joan Lingard Quotes

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.

I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

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.'

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

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

My parents never really lecture me.

As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.

It's important for parents to be strict if you want the kids to succeed.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

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

My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

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

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.

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

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

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.

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.