It was valuable to me that I was home with my children during breaks and the summer months.

The AMBER Alert to me is bittersweet. It's wonderful to bring children home where they belong, but what if we had the AMBER Alert when Amber went missing?

Back in the 90s, sociologists studied what they called 'boomerang children,' adult children who returned home or were in and out of their parents' home. What they found that it wasn't because they were freeloaders. It was because the economy was bad.

Think of something you can be proud of, and if you are afraid of something try it.

I enjoy working with this age group. They want me to come back every year.

I still live in Huntington Beach, California, but I try to get back home more to Louisiana a lot. All my family is down in Louisiana.