It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.