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I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.