Macaulay Culkin Quotes

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

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

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.

Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

People say California is the leading state on these type of issues. I've called my sister today and I said - I have a 3-year-old nephew - "Do you spank?"And she says, "If it's necessary I will. But that's my decision. I'm the mother. Not you."

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

If you think about it, there's very little about young families on TV, and yet there's so many of them.

I have no problem yelling at anybody's kid - free of charge!

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.