Kent McCord Quotes

My mother used to pat me instead of slapping me whenever I made a mistake.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.

Children can be disciplined with love.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what's out there.

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.

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 think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities.

If my son is not performing well, I would not pelt stone on him - this is not the way a Hindustani behaves.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

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

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

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 think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.