Part 18: Be Amazed At the Secrets About Her Life That World-Class Copywriter Lorrie Morgan Ferrero Reveals in Her In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
Do you think, especially boys, that it’s important to have some sort of discipline?
Oh yes. I actually fought my kid’s dad on this because I just wanted to be the best mom in the world. To me that meant they were happy all the time.
Well, they can’t be happy all the time because our job is to teach them things. Teaching them means putting boundaries. That was where John, as the male energy as well he should have, came in and said, “You know these are the rules and you are going to follow them.”
And at the time I hated it, but when I look at it now, my kids clean up their room. They are responsible kids and they will be responsible adults. I think it’s very critical and I think it’s a crisis situation that other parents are not making any boundaries around their own kids.
When my kids were in preschool, experts taught that you should be having dinner with your kids every night and that is a special time for you all to sit around and bond, and I do believe its true.
I have to be honest. We don’t do it every night like we use to, but I think that having some stability, if you cant do it every night, just do it a few nights a week or just some kind of stability.
I drive my kids to school in the morning and that’s when we have our best conversations because they will really open up. There’s nothing else to do and I think the dinner table is the same way. There’s nothing else really to do so you are forced to interact. It’s a nice ritual.