It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.

It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.