Madonna at home

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Saw this snippet on Hello's website:

"While there was no questioning the discipline Madonna brought to her career, the word seemed to have little relevance to the irreverent high jinks which made the Material Girl a household name.

Now that she's a happily married mum-of-two however, Madge's iron discipline has found a new focus ? her kids.

The singer says that while film director Guy Ritchie is into doing "wild stuff outside" with nine-year-old Lourdes and son Rocco, five, she is the one who worries about their teeth and makes sure they get their homework done.

"I'm a disciplinarian. Guy's the spoiler," the Papa Don't Preach singer revealed in an interview with Harpers And Queen magazine.

She also gives a glimpse into the family's home life, in which TV and junk food are a no-no and magazines and newspapers are banned. "My kids don't watch TV. We have televisions but they're not hooked up to anything but movies," explains Madge. "TV is trash. I was raised without it."

And if Lourdes and Rocco want to enjoy their weekly movie treat, they need to behave themselves. "The kids watch movies every Sunday. If they're naughty, they get the movie taken away," says Madonna, who takes an equally firm approach to Lourdes' untidiness.

"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. "Lola has to earn all her clothes back by being tidy, making her bed, hanging up her clothes."

[teeavee]

she seems sound - he's a bit of a knob though, I think

[aloha]

Ah yes, but Madonna has round the clock nannies, has never changed a nappy, has a cook and you betcha she doesn't do any housework. It's easy to be the disciplinarian when someone else actually does the work.

[teeavee]

very true!

[franke]

I read this (the version I read was longer and had other anecdotes) and thought she sounded a bit of a bully, particularly with her daughter.

[twinsetandpearls]

I thought the same as you Alohe when she was talking about how stric she is with her dd food and she only gives them freshly prepared organic non dairy meals .....that her cook prepares!

[bundle]

i hear madge has been giving britney parenting tips

[Satanic]

A freind of mine is a pilot who flies private jets and luckily he's a real gossip. He said that Guy seems to wear the trousers in the relationship, from the couple of times he's flown them. He has also flown Sting and Trudi Styler, who he said were lovely, brought home made sandwiches for themselves and all the crew!

[teeavee]

Guy is a macho misogynist pratt, as far as i can see

[spidermama]

I have a great deal of respect for Madonna. I'm interested and inspired that she grew up without TV.

[tamum]

I read that she withdraws the Sunday movie if they've been really naughty and the bedtime story if they've just been a bit naughty. I was really struck by that- it would be like withdrawing love for a bit of naughtiness to me. I would use it the other way round- they'd have to be horrendous to lose the bedtime story!

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[Tinker]

Surely no child has to earn their clothes back?

[Gobbledispook]

I agree with aloha. It's just not real life as most of us live it. When you are exhausted, you have a pile of ironing the size of K2, meals to prepare, lunchboxes to make up, washing to do, work to do..and you're in that hamster wheel scenario where it's the same thing the next day(need I go on?)...somtimes you bung the TV on or give then a packet of buttons and you try to get on with it.

I bet she's not trying to clean the toilet with a 13 month old trying to climb in, or trying to hoover with 3 toddlers yanking at the lead....

[HRHQoQ]

tinker - I guess it depends on how much you've paid for them . Would you want your children leaving their £1000 pair of trousers on the bedroom floor to be trampled on

[hunkerpumpkin]

Tamum, I agree with you re the bedtime story withdrawal - it seems she must quite value onscreen entertainment if she places it above books

[Eaney]

If not watching TV as a youngseter results in you leaving home at the tender age of 18 to pose nude for soft porn photos then bring on the TV.

Don't think her adrenalin seeking early days in New York are a good advert for not watching TV. Gues she had been soooo bored she sought extreme excitment when she could.

[Gobbledispook]

LOL Eaney - very true!!

[HRHWickedwaterwitch]

Well quite re the nannies etc. I'm not surprised to hear that Guy wears the trousers at home, it shows I think when you look at their body language in photos.

[TinyGang]

I'd really love to be a fly on the wall to hear the conversation when the children become teenagers. They'll have tons of ammunition to chuck back at her won't they?

[Tinker]

Janet Street Porter lays into her in today's Indie. Good. Can't stand Madonna. Can't link though, unfortunately.

[TinyGang]

Here Tinker?

[Tinker]

Cheers TG. But got to pay to read it all.