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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

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

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.