"My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home," she explains.

Bad behaviour is repaid by chores. "[She] has to earn all her clothes back by being tidy, making her bed, hanging up her clothes," she says.

As for the family diet: "It's whole grains, eating things by season, staying away from food that's been bioengineered in some way.

"[Our cook] prepares food like sushi or salmon. And vegetables. We don't eat any dairy here."

Guess who is behind this quote:

Love her! #2 on my list, but you can't guess who #1 is!!!

Madge!

CarrieMpls said:

that's my vote!!!!

Madonna's parenting secrets
By Alexa Baracaia, Evening Standard

Madonna is a worldwide pop icon, once notorious for her desire to shock.

But as she nears 50, she has become a puritanical parent who is a disciplinarian with her children, nine-year-old Lola and Rocco, four.

Madonna, married to film director Guy Ritchie, says she has banned television and punishes her daughter's messiness by confiscating her clothes.

"I'm a disciplinarian. Guy's the spoiler," she says in an interview with Harpers & Queen magazine.

"When Daddy gets home, they're going to get chocolate. I'm more practical; I worry about their teeth and make sure they're getting their schoolwork done. I'm very schedlotuled, I make lists."

The woman who made her name as a mass media idol, continues: "My kids don't watch TV. We have televisions but they're not hooked up to anything but movies.

"TV is trash. I was raised without it. We don't have magazines or newspapers in the house either."

Ritchie, who directed Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, treats the children to pizza and bike rides. "Guy is into doing wild stuff outside, taking them out on bikes," she says.

"He's good cop, I'm bad cop. The kids watch movies every Sunday, so if they're naughty, they get their movie taken away. If they're a little naughty, then no stories before bed."

But 47- year- old Madonna is strictest of all about Lourdes's clothes.

"My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home," she explains.

Bad behaviour is repaid by chores. "Lola has to earn all her clothes back by being tidy, making her bed, hanging up her clothes," she says.

As for the family diet: "It's whole grains, eating things by season, staying away from food that's been bioengineered in some way.

"[Our cook] prepares food like sushi or salmon. And vegetables. We don't eat any dairy here."

The singer also reveals how her social life is virtually non-existent. The daily routine means getting up at 7.30am, seeing the children off to school, a morning in the office, lunchtime exercising, then more work in the afternoon. Dinner is at 9.30pm, after Ritchie comes home.

"We eat late, we go to bed late, I get up early," she says. "I don't see a of my girlfriends. When you have a husband, two kids and a job, you don't go out that much." Madonna, who has a new single, Hung Up, out on 14 November, also talks about her love for London.

"I never thought I'd settle," she says. "I quite disliked the place for a while. When I was just starting out, the press was terrible to me. Then I met my husband. I realised that, if I didn't live here, I wouldn't get to see him very much. I feel freer here."

The full interview appears in the November issue of Harpers & Queen, on sale now.

CynthiasSocks said:

Bette Davis.

Good guess! And I do love Betty, but she not #1. I'm going to say that Betty and Joan are tied for 2nd because I know that they would both hate it!


My #1 is...

CynthiasSocks said:

They would.

And Liz was so beautiful back in the day.

minneapolisgenius said:

Liz is beautiful on the inside! She's my hero and I love her, love her, love her!!!

CynthiasSocks said:

Ok. That's great.

minneapolisgenius said:

I love her more than Prince, more than Martha Stewart!

CynthiasSocks said:

More than Martha?!!!!

You guys are too good!

Yup, Madgie Dearest said it!

"My kids don't watch TV. We have televisions but they're not hooked up to anything but movies.

"TV is trash. I was raised without it. We don't have magazines or newspapers in the house either."

The kids watch movies every Sunday, so if they're naughty, they get their movie taken away. If they're a little naughty, then no stories before bed."

But 47- year- old Madonna is strictest of all about Lourdes's clothes.

"My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home," she explains.

Bad behaviour is repaid by chores. "Lola has to earn all her clothes back by being tidy, making her bed, hanging up her clothes," she says.

As for the family diet: "It's whole grains, eating things by season, staying away from food that's been bioengineered in some way.

"[Our cook] prepares food like sushi or salmon. And vegetables. We don't eat any dairy here."

You guys are too good!

Yup, Madgie Dearest said it!

I would wager that the movies she allows her kids to watch probably have as many or more misguided messages than anything on TV. And this notion that everything on television is bad is nonsense. As for banning newspapers, that's just ridiculous. And there are worthwhile magazines.


I have no problems with any of the above. Discipline is a very valuable thing for children to learn.

I like Madonna (except for the Kabbalah bullshit), but this blanket dismissal of TV, magazines and newspapers is just foolishness.

CynthiasSocks said:

"No what's the movie called George...you know the one with Betty Davis and she comes in and looks around and says "What a dump!"

Ace said:

I don't think so. If you're Madonna, you'd probably do very good by avoiding newspapers and magazine. ALthough to dismiss the whole media thing is a bit hypocritical seeing as how she gloms onto media.

It's more protection for her kids is all. If she were not a celebrity, I'm sure it souldn't matter.

superspaceboy said:

BEYOND THE FOREST