Frank Shorter Quotes

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

I always tried to do the best for my kid.

Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

I don't want to spend my energy on people who don't like me.

Every child needs both parents.

I took a look at my own life and realized that I was overinvesting in my kids. I realized that I had to get out of the way and let them be who they wanted to be, not what I wanted them to be.

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

Yes, my mum had a huge influence on my life and the love she had for me, the love we had between each other, did sway me to not do bad things. Sometimes they say the street raised you, but my mum did the raising.

My family helps me a lot, and my mum is always picking on me. I have grown used to saying that she is the worst defender I have had to face, but I know she says all that stuff for my own good.

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.

My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.

Moms, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people's perceptions of how you're doing.