Nancy Juvonen Quotes

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 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.

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

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

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

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

My parents never really lecture me.

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.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

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

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

My kids would say I'm strict, but I don't think I am.

For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

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

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

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.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.