Hollywood is a difficult place to raise children, leading some celebrities to take a strict parenting approach.
Stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger, who admitted to being like a “practice teacher” when his children were little, and Reese Witherspoon, who recently said she wanted children to deal more directly with failure, have spoken in interviews about their stricter parenting styles.
Others, like Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, focus on making their children grateful for growing up in famous families of wealth and privilege.
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Here’s a look at some celebrity parents who are focusing on stricter parenting.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Reese Witherspoon have both spoken out about their harsh parenting approaches. (Getty Images)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has four children with his ex-wife Maria Shriver and also a son with Mildred Baena, the family’s former housekeeper, takes a disciplined approach to parenting and recently admitted that he acted as a “drill teacher” when his children were young were.
In a recent interview with People while promoting his new book, he recalled a moment when his eldest daughter, Katherine, brought her 3-year-old daughter, Lyla, and saw the lesson he had passed on.
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“Katherine comes over with Lyla and says, ‘Lyla, I already told you not to put the shoes there. Keep your shoes on or you’ll put them away, but you don’t leave them there by the rack in front.’ The fireplace because you know what daddy did? When I left my shoes there twice? The third time he burned her in front of me and I cried,” he said.
Schwarzenegger said the story was “absolutely” true, and he was proud that Katherine used “the same methods that she cried about and complained about” with Lyla and her other daughter, Eloise, whom she shares. . with husband Chris Pratt.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is shown in 2006 with his then wife Maria Shriver and their children Christopher, Patrick, Katherine and Christina. (Eric Charbonneau / WireImage for Sony Pictures-Los Angeles)
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The 76-year-old also shared a similar tough love attitude with his eldest son Patrick.
Schwarzenegger said that when he was 9 years old, he threw his mattress outside after Patrick didn’t make the bed.
“I opened the door to the balcony, picked up the mattress and threw it down along with the bed linen, pillows and everything else. I said, ‘Never force someone to clean your room, clean your shower, or clean your shower.’ bed,’” he told People. “I said, ‘Because I taught you how to make the bed.'”
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He also argued with Patrick over shower time because he felt he was taking too long and wondered how he could limit it by installing a timer, similar to the ones he had used in Munich.
“When he was showering and whistling and singing and thinking dad wasn’t there, suddenly the ice-cold shower came. And suddenly we heard the scream downstairs,” said Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger said he limited showers to five minutes when his son Patrick was younger and even installed a timer to turn off the water if he showered for too long. (Gisela Schober/Getty Images for GQ/File)
The former California governor also recently warned that if young people are over-indulged, this country may “breed a generation of wimps and weak people.”
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“Only when you resist, when you fail, when you get back up and when you work hard can you build your character and become a truly strong person,” Schwarzenegger said on “The Howard Stern Show.”
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Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon is a mother of three and believes that children need to “learn from mistakes” more often. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images/File)
Reese Witherspoon is a mother of three children. She shares her eldest children, Ava and Deacon, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe and her youngest, Tennessee, with ex-husband Jim Toth.
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In a recent interview on the podcast “Good Inside with Dr. “Becky,” the Oscar winner said she wanted children to live with failure a little more.
“I see this a lot with parents – I don’t know when we stopped allowing our children to fail. I learned so much from the paper I didn’t turn in or the mistakes I got, so I got detention. “I was suspended from school,” she recalls.
She added: “And my parents didn’t say, ‘Uh, she doesn’t deserve that’ and take me out of school. They actually made me sit there and feel uncomfortable. So I think learning from mistakes is actually what it is.” A valuable tool that you can’t take away from children, right? You’re depriving them if you don’t let them sit in the discomfort of that experience.”
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Reese Witherspoon is shown in 2016 with Ava Phillippe, Deacon Phillippe, Tennessee James Toth and her then-husband Jim Toth. (Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
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The Walk the Line star recalled how she comforted her daughter when she was younger after she lost a basketball game – but didn’t shy away from the lesson.
Witherspoon recalled saying, “Yeah, I know. I know this probably feels really bad,” but then added, “You know what? Maybe you’re not good at basketball?”
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Her daughter was slightly upset at the moment, but Witherspoon continued, “Actually, it’s really important to learn what you’re not good at.”
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Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig said he has no plans to leave his wealth from working in films, including the James Bond films, to his children. (Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for National Board of Review / File)
James Bond star Daniel Craig shares a daughter with his wife Rachel Weisz and has an older daughter from his previous marriage to Fiona Loudon. He is also stepfather to Weisz’s son from a previous relationship.
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But Craig’s kids shouldn’t be expecting a bunch of money when he’s gone.
In an interview with Saga Magazine in 2020, Craig said: “My philosophy is to get rid of it or give it away before you go. I don’t want to leave large sums of money to the next generation.”
A year later, in an interview with Candis magazine, he reiterated the opinion that inheritance was “in bad taste” and reflected on the general nature of wealth.
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“Isn’t there an old saying that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed? I think Andrew Carnegie gave away about $11 billion in today’s terms, which shows how rich he was, because I bet he did.” “I kept some of it too,” he said.
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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar
Freddie Prinze Jr. said that he and his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar are “strict as hell” when it comes to raising their children. (Jesse Grant / Getty Images for Paramount+ / File)
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star Sarah Michelle Gellar and husband Freddie Prinze Jr. have two children together and have been married for more than 20 years.
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In an interview with Us Weekly in 2021, Prinze shared some details about how they raise their children, now 13 and 11 years old.
“We’re strict as hell,” the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” star told the outlet. “Look, I don’t believe in screaming children. I’ve never screamed mine. My mother yelled at me.
Prinze added that Gellar also knows how to be strict and has “100 rules” for her children.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar said that she and Freddie Prinze Jr. don’t allow phones at the table and that their children “know not to break other family rules.” (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images/File)
“They know they can’t break [those rules]”, he said. “Friendships come and go. I tell my children all the time that family is forever. So we have rules and they must be followed [them].”
Gellar told Us Weekly in 2020 that her “expectations as a parent are a little higher than most.”
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“I find [our children] “I know what the rules are,” she said at the time. “We have this.” [family dinner] as many nights as possible. We don’t have phones at the table. We sit, we all eat dinner together.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have two children together, and Kunis has said she doesn’t want to raise them to be “entitled assholes.” (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic / Getty Images / File)
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have been married since 2015 and have two children together, daughter Wyatt, 9, and son Dmitri, 6.
To keep her children grounded, Kunis revealed how she keeps her privilege under control in a 2020 interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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“I like to remind them that mom and dad have money, but they’re broke all the time,” she said with a laugh. “This isn’t your bedroom, it’s my bedroom that I’m giving to you, so you should take good care of it.”
She continued: “I say this jokingly, but actually they don’t have any stuff… they grew up wearing hand-me-down clothes from their friends’ children; We work in the garden.”
Kunis noted that her children are lucky to be born into a famous family and wants to make sure they are grateful.
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“Our children are very lucky,” she said. “Still, they were born at the right time to the right people, and I love them, but they won’t be entitled to a hole.”
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Candace Cameron Bure
Candace Cameron Bure is shown in 2016 with her husband Valeri Bure and children Lev, Maksim and Natasha. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
“Full House” star Candace Cameron Bure is the proud mother of three children with husband Valeri Bure: Natasha, Lev and Maksim, who are now all in their early 20s.
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When her children were teenagers, Bure spoke to LA Parent about her parenting style, noting that she can be “strict.”
“I hope my children would say that I am a loving mother,” Bure said. “You would also describe me as strict. We set firm boundaries, but there is always love and grace.”
She continued, “I’m the mom who has to meet the parents before my kids can go to a new friend’s house. I want to know who they are with and where they are going. Even now that they are driving, I want them to text me when they arrive and when they go home.”
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Candace Cameron Bure said she was “strict” but “there is always love and grace.” (Getty Images / File)
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Bure explained that they “work hard to keep our communication open and discuss any situation” and that they are “always ready to listen.”
“But I don’t always say yes,” she added. “My goal as a parent is not to make my children happy, but to make them respectful, curious, responsible, resilient, kind, generous and considerate adults.”
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard
Kristen Bell revealed that she and Dax Shepard put their daughters in a shared bedroom to “develop good character.” (Cindy Ord/Getty Images/File)
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have two daughters, Lincoln, 10, and Delta, 8, and have been married for 10 years.
The couple were honest about the trials and tribulations of raising their children, especially keeping them grounded.
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“It is very important to me that they share a bedroom. I think their lives will be easier than most other people on the planet, and to develop good character it’s important to always go through something,” Bell told Self in 2020.
“I like the fact that they have to figure out how to share a bedroom, how to share their closet, how to share their space,” she continued. “If having to share a bedroom with your sister is the worst thing in your life, you’ll be fine.”
Kristen Bell said that she and Shepard also limit screen time, but allow their children some time on the weekends. (Todd Owyoung/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images/File)
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Bell also laid out her strict rules for screen time, but admits that they become a little more lax on the weekends.
“They are not allowed to play on our phones or even have screens. They’re allowed to watch TV on the weekends and we’re pretty generous with that and I’ve been thinking about paying more attention to that,” she said. “But since they are not allowed at all during the week, they wake up at 6:30 on Saturday morning and watch TV until noon. I also sleep until 9:45, which is really nice, and then you get things done.
The Frozen star added: “But I have to say, I realize how hard it is to drag her away from the TV at lunchtime.”