Lincoln Steffens Quotes

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.

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

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

If my kids were to make a talking doll of me as a mother, one of my recorded phrases would be 'I will throw that in the trash.' 'If you don't put that down right now, I will throw that in the trash.' It's very funny to hear myself say certain things - like noticing which phrases become the most popular to use.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

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

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

Punishments inflicted with signs of anger are useless.

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

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

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

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

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

Praise in public; rebuke in private.

When you consent, consent cordially; when you refuse, refuse finally; when you punish, punish good-naturedly; commend often, never scold

Don’t swear; fight!

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.