Bernie Mac Quotes

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

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

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family.

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

I do not raise brats!

There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

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

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

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.

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.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

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.

He who spares the rod.

A capable mother keeps her young people employed and thus out of mischief. She demands from them co-operative helpfulness. She maintains Shelter. She distributes praise and blame. She keeps order. She does not pretend to practice "democracy", the children do not elect their teachers nor determine the methods of family government. Any mother who knows her business is in her home an absolute domestic dictator. It is she who decides what the children shall eat and wear, when they shall get up or go to bed, and go to school, and come home, &c. Her reign extends however, only over the young and her sole object is to fit them to take proper care of themselves later and to make their own way in life

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

I'm a very tough dad. I mean, I'm a fun dad, but I'm a tough dad.