Ricardo Montalban Quotes

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

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 do not raise brats!

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.

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

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

My parents never really lecture me.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

I would consider my dad a pretty patient guy, but there was no tolerance for spoiled behavior.

My father gave me discipline.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

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.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.