Madonna talks about her parenting slant:
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. . .
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 . . . is 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."
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."
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I offer it for what it's worth. For me, I wouldn't take parenting tips from Madonna any more than I'd take gambling advice from Pete Rose. It's good to see her trying, but I'm sensing a little too much of a backlash against the laxity that she symbolized twenty years ago.
