Madonna is a true pop icon of our generation and never shies away from pushing boundaries with her art, style, and public persona. But when it comes to raising her family, it seems that the star is a completely different person. With her 6 kids, 2 of whom are biological and 4 adopted, Madonna is a disciplinarian with sometimes ultra-strict rules that might surprise us but also inspire our own parenting techniques.
Bright Side is fascinated by Madonna’s out-of-the-ordinary and unexpected parenting style. We’ll share 8 of the interesting ways she’s raising her kids.
Madonna’s 16-year-old adopted son, David Banda, seems to have a knack for daring fashion just like his mother, and she loves to encourage it. In fact, the Queen of Pop revealed that David has that ’’it factor," which will potentially make him a star one day. She added, “He’ll put on any outfit and look swag [...] He wears my clothes and looks better in them.” The proud mama explained that her son can wear a dress and make it look great.
The star, who is known for her daring and liberated public persona, seems to have much stricter principles when it comes to her daughters’ love lives. She once explained that her eldest child, Lourdes, who is now 25, wasn’t able to date until she was a legal adult. She revealed, “No boys for Lourdes until she’s 18 years old.”
The star follows a strict macrobiotic diet where she mainly eats veggies, beans, and nuts. She also makes sure that her kids stick to this super healthy diet and stay away from preservatives, salt, sweets, chocolate, or any dairy products. The kids can only enjoy these treats every once in a while thanks to her ex, as she admittedly said, ’’When Daddy gets home, they get chocolate."
The hands-on mother loves to keep an eye on her children as much as she can, even if she’s traveling around the world with her busy schedule. It was reported that her then 15-year-old son, Rocco, got bored of touring with his mom. The teenager decided to rebel and stay with his father who had a more ’’laid-back’’ lifestyle, which allowed the young man to ’’have girlfriends and be in one place."
And even when her kids are with her ex-husband, Madonna has to check on them and hear their voices whenever she wants. In fact, this was mentioned in a list of rules she gave Guy Ritchie, in which she says that she has to be in contact with her boys as much as 3 to 4 times a day.
TV and phones have become a normal part of everybody’s everyday life. But the star has banned these electronics from her house and doesn’t allow her younger kids to have access to them. As an alternate form of entertainment, the performer encourages dancing after dinner time.
When it comes to being organized and tidy, Madonna doesn’t like to joke around. She revealed that whenever they’d find dirty clothes on her daughter Lourdes’ floor, they would ’’take all of her clothes and put them in a bag, and she had to earn all of her clothes back by being tidy.’’ She even admitted that she makes Lourdes wear the same outfit to school every single day until she has learned her lesson.
The star has a habit of drinking only water that has been blessed by a Kabbalah religious leader. Each bottle costs $5. This means that she spends $10,000 on this water that has to be shipped to her wherever she is in the world. She insists that her kids also follow her example, which means that they are not allowed to drink filtered, tap, or any other brands of bottled water.
Do you agree with Madonna’s parenting rules? Do you have any surprising restrictions that you make your kids follow?
The story refers to her "adopted son." This is insensitive to both the adopted child and the parent. An adoption is an event that happens once and leads to an official relationship between parent and child. You don't have to always point out that a child has been adopted -- the adoption is done and he's her child now, so just say he's her child.
