These beautiful women are in the limelight every day. How to they handle being moms?
"I started off being a pretty strict mom but I find myself easing off, because now I'm not trying to figure Renee out; she tells me. She had a very strict itinerary because it was the only way to get her to understand discipline," says Sushmita.
"No one agreed with me, but hats off to my little one… She's proved everybody wrong! She speaks her own mind and has her own sense of discipline..." - Sushmita Sen
Janhavi and Khushi, my two daughters, are my life. I have adopted a balanced approach in bringing them up. I'm neither too strict nor do I pamper them too much.' - Sridevi
"My husband keeps telling me that I'm the best mother ever… I want my children to enjoy themselves. They go to their friends' houses; have them over to play, but they know their limits. I generally don't have to tell them "don't do this" or "don't do that".' - Sridevi
'You know, I have always disagreed with the term "full-time" mother. Once you're a mother, you're always full-time, irrespective of whether you have a career or not?" Sonali Bendre
"There are enough people to mollycoddle Ranvir, so mostly I end up playing the disciplinarian.' - Sonali Bendre
'In some ways I am like an Indian parent. I like to fuss around the children, I like to feed them. But in some aspects you have to let them be their own people. If one of them is throwing a tantrum, I just let him be for a bit. Then I say, "Okay, you can sit here and cry all you want.' - Madhuri Dixit-Nene
Tanuja on her daughters Kajol and Tanisha: 'You can't be rigid - either you'll break or you'll break the child.'
'I believe that parent-child relationships, like all other relationships, can't ever be a one-way street. If you want your children to listen to you, you've got to listen, really listen to them.' - Tanuja
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