The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

I did a Coca-Cola commercial when I was about two and a half years old, and then me and my family were extras in a bunch of Westerns. I loved dressing up and stepping into this imaginary world, and it was fun to get outside of my tiny little town with a bunch of movie weirdos.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

I grew up in a humble family with a shy personality.