Susan Shreve Quotes

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

Mom was very protective of me. Her hands were gentle, and her touch was soothing. She always talked quite a bit, but she was bright and affectionate.

If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

At the end of the day, all I want to do is protect my kids.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

Until you have a child, you won't really understand that you would actually throw yourself in front of a bus for your child. Like, you don't really get it. Like, it's like, 'Hell no.' You know, 'She's only two. I can make another one.' You know? But, you know, you have a baby, and then you actually care about this person.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.