Though Michael J. Fox is an award-winning actor with several parts under his belt, being a father is arguably his most proud job to date.

The Back to the Future actor and Tracy Pollan, his wife of more than 30 years, have four children together, but he recently quipped to Reader’s Digest that it occasionally “feels like five.”

In addition, he shared his finest parenting advice with the source, “Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, ‘Give me five minutes, give me 10 minutes,’ it’ll be 15, it’ll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.”, he said.

He added, “I’ve never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.”

The actor revealed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis to the public seven years after he had the diagnosis in 1991. He discussed his family life and the impact of the sickness in a 2009 interview with Good Housekeeping.

“If I’m reaching for something, they’ll just do it and carry on, [They have learned] empathy, resilience, and also sorting out what’s important from what’s not — things like vanity.”, he stated of his children.

All four of Fox’s adult children are featured on his Instagram account, and the family is very close to him.

In May 2022, he posted a Mother’s Day homage to Pollan with the remark, “Our children are beautiful, sensitive, intelligent, empathetic, independent, compassionate, adventurous, lovely people. That’s your fault. We all love you so much. Happy Mother’s Day.”

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, a documentary released in 2023, included footage of Fox’s children.

In May 2023, The Family Ties alum spoke with PEOPLE about the project and his family’s feelings about having cameras in their home. “They all gave me their permission. And then, at various times, they retracted their permission,” he claimed.

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Sam Michael Fox, 35

On May 30, 1989, Sam Michael Fox was born. Sam is the sole child of Fox and Pollan, and at the time, Fox told PEOPLE how excited they were to be parents for the first time.

“We did the whole womb music deal, where we put the headphones on Tracy’s stomach and played everything from Vivaldi to the Allman Brothers,” he remarked in December 1989.