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I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.