No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

To show that you truly care, you listen.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.