Shweta Tiwari Quotes

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

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

I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

It's important for parents to be strict if you want the kids to succeed.

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'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.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

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

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.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

I'm not a yeller. But I am strict.

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

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

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

My parents never really lecture me.