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Chris Bosh talks parenting: 'You have to be the bad guy'

JUN 16, 2015 1:03p ET

JUN 16, 2015 1:03p ET

There are few things more important than being a good parent. It's a lesson Miami Heat star Chris Bosh has learned well over the years, as Bosh told Men's Health that "things got very real for me very fast" when his first daughter was born.

And things getting real as a parent means figuring out how to discipline your children while still remaining compassionate, Bosh said. When he was a kid, that meant having to do book reports out of the encyclopedia to earn time playing Nintendo.