Shanina Shaik Quotes

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.

I am a psycho therapist and I used to teach street children.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

Emotions interest me, and I'm fascinated by how a child's mind works.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.

My background is in social work and psychotherapy.

If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.