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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.

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.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

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.