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If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.

Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.