- Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke about how he disciplined his children while they were growing up.
- The actor recalled throwing his daughter's shoes into the fireplace to teach her a lesson.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is best known for playing tough action heroes in "Commando," "The Terminator," and "Predator," and it seems he was just as tough as a parent.
Appearing on athlete and podcaster Rich Roll's podcast this week, Schwarzenegger spoke about his strict approach to disciplining his children while they were growing up.
The star has four children with his ex-wife Maria Shriver: Katherine, Christina, Patrick, and Christopher. He also has a son, Joseph, as a result of his affair with his former housekeeper, Mildred Baena.
"Overall, there was discipline in the house," Schwarzenegger recalled. "You don't turn out that light? I will unscrew those light bulbs and you will be going into that dark room at the age of 3, and you'll be scared. So you better start learning to turn off those lights."
"You have someone else make your bed?" he continued. "Okay, I'm gonna take the mattress and throw it down the balcony, and then you carry it upstairs and you make your own bed again."
Schwarzenegger went on to say that he once threw one of his daughter's shoes into the fireplace.
"Or when I burned their shoes. When my daughter left her shoes three times in front of the fireplace," he said. "I said, 'The third time it goes in the fire,' and the third time it did go in the fire right in front of her, and she was crying the whole night."
Although the actor's children were upset with his methods at the time, Schwarzenegger said that they've since come to respect his strict parenting style.
"But now, she does the same to her daughter. And now she says, 'That was great that you did that,'" said the star.
Schwarzenegger also recalled the time he borrowed some tactics from his "Kindergarten Cop" character while taking his kids skiing.
"My kids were crying on the ski slopes: 'I wanna go in, I want a hot chocolate,'" he said. "'There will be no hot chocolate!' You know, the usual 'Kindergarten Cop' kind of a thing? 'There will be no hot chocolate!' I said, 'We're going to ski four runs and then there's a hot chocolate. Not after the first run.'"