Quotes from Jo Frost

I think integrity's important; really important.

I want to see more families have more compassion, more empathy in understanding that not every family is sitting there intentionally saying, 'I don't care about everybody else.' They're just trying to do the best that they can.

My parenting skills came from two decades of being in the field helping families and having the opportunity to work with hundreds of families of all different ages.

I'm highly intuitive - highly.

Of course we need independence, but who says that should mean doing everything alone and in isolation? That won't make us stronger. Together is always better.

I think it is a great idea for people to look at the reality of raising children at a young age.

I change my techniques according to what the child or the parent needs, or the family as a whole needs, but as a professional, I do not move with a trend or a fad.

I clearly saw an opportunity with 'Supernanny' to reach not just one family but lots of people, and to give everyone the benefit of my knowledge and experience.

When we were at school my younger brother and I were very sporty, so we did a lot of stuff outside school, club activities. Summer holidays, though, my mum would take off a big chunk of time and my dad would take some time off and I have the fondest memories of the things we'd do as a family.

There is nothing your child is going to learn right now at the age of 10 that is going to make or break their career at 24. There just isn't.

Supernanny' was a format that was geared toward parents who had troublesome kids and didn't know how to cope with their behavior.

I used to work in a maternity shop when I was at college. But I started baby-sitting in the evenings. I started then to professionally nanny full time, sole charge, when I was 18. I finished college, and then I didn't go on to do anything else. I started to professionally help families, and I chose not to go to training for professional nannies.

All I can say is this: what I'm doing with children is good, solid common sense.

Some people like me, some people don't. It is what it is.

We have become a society that lacks empathy. Are we teaching empathy? The Internet desensitises, too.

We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.

When you're filming on the road you literally are isolated for two weeks and you may go to Alaska or Atlanta or you may go to Florida.

My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this when you have no children?' Maybe I just do and that's how it is. It all comes from my personality and what I believe in.

As a nanny i see the way children begin to flag in the run up to lunch time so i know food definitely has a big impact on a child's mental state.

I had scabby knees with long socks up to my knees. I was scrumping for conkers with everyone else. I was out on my bike. I used to do the 100m sprint. We always wanted to be out playing.

There's an underlining nice feeling of needing to be needed constantly.

I have heard, seen and dealt with a lot of issues, but what gets me most is the shocking statistics about exercise and the amount of time some parents spend with their children.

I think there's something to be said for going to certain fine dining restaurants and knowing that after a certain time, it would be inappropriate to take young children. And, unrealistic for them and unfair to the child and to the others that are dining.

My mother had a Spanish upbringing. She was an excellent cook. Everything was home-made. We didn't eat food with smiley faces on it. My Mum passed away in 1994. I miss her. I miss her cooking. It would be nice to have a meal with her again.