Neil Bush Quotes

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

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

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.

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

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.

I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

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.

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.

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.

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

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

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.'

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

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.

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.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.