I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.
That's what's cool - you don't know what your kids are gonna be drawn to or what's gonna excite them and what's gonna motivate them. So it's cool to see their personalities develop and see the things that they lean toward.
I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.
My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.
My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
Early on, my parents noticed an aptitude for being a show-off. I loved attention. I was always saying, 'Watch me do this, watch me do that,' which I now realize with my own kids is a phase that most kids go through.
There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
