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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that's all that matters.

Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

Once you have six children, you're committed.

It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.