Quotes from Jo Frost

Children who go undisciplined are often frightened, insecure, angry, confused, and unhappy.

I don't dislike any of my features - they're what make me me, and I'm confident in who I am. I see my mum in my lips and I've got my dad's eyes.

I am the first to say I'm firm and fair.

People think I'm terrifying but I'm really not. I am firm, yes, definitely firm, but I also have fun, I like my champagne, perhaps a rum and Coke, a laugh with the girls, all of that. Honest.

I like to think that I am providing a public service to educate parents.

Oh, I'm always laughing with the children in 'Supernanny,' but you don't see it because Ricochet decide what to leave on the cutting-room floor and what to keep in.

I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined I would be on TV.

I had this very strong intuition when working with children. The families I used to work for said, 'You're a white witch. You just know.'

There's a lot of external issues that have a ripple effect on a family and a lot of internal, practical parenting challenges that families are trying to overcome every day. Children become the silent witnesses of such worry within their families.

Parents get worried that kids will hold grudges. But they just don't.

I was in Key West, Florida, and I ate some key lime pie and the base of the pie had nuts in it. I'm allergic to nuts and I went into anaphylactic shock, which is life threatening, and ended up in hospital.

It needs to be recognised that children perform better when they have eaten breakfast.

So often I meet parents who are just exhausted. I want to look at how I can then create space for that person to recover.

I do wear my hair up. To be honest with you when you are working with children you spend most of your time with your hair up, unless you want custard in your hair or some kind of baby sick hanging off the back of your shoulder.

A lot of women feel apologetic or feel the need to make excuses for not having children but women don't need to if they don't want to.

There are millions of working parents out there just keeping their heads above water.

My brother and his wife are such good parents. They work together as a team. They are doing really well. I'm really proud of them.

I spent a lot of time in Barbados as a child and I still really enjoy going back there and enjoying the island. Going to Barbados brings back great memories of family holidays.

I certainly don't have horns growing out of head.

I'm pretty relentless.

I have a schedule that is absolutely relentless.

I think being able to teach your children manners and to be respectful is one thing that you can do regardless to what class you come from or what religious belief you have.

Resilience can only form if we face, and learn how to be better equipped to manage, our problems.

I'm just natural with initiative, with instinct. Paediatricians have said so themselves.