Maria Shriver talks about growing up Kennedy and raising her kids with Arnold Schwarzenegger to feel loved for who they are, not their name. She emphasizes teaching them service and keeping them grounded despite the family's fame and privilege.
You grew up this sort of larger than life. The Kennedy Shriver family visiting Uncle Jack at the White House as what, an 8 year old, 9 year old? As you became older and you started to realize that your life is not like everybody else's life, how did you learn to manage that? And more importantly, kids growing up now in the Kennedy Shriver clan, and now you add a Schwarzenegger to it, how did you keep them grounded?
I grew up being asked all the time, which Kennedy are you? More than any single other question, which Kennedy are you? So what I wanted to do when I started a family was to make sure that the kids that Arnold and I had felt like they were a priority, felt that they were loved for who they were, not for what they did. That they understood that they were coming into a privileged home. But that part of that was also that I and their dad expected them to be of service somehow in the world. I wanted them to understand that who they were was more important than the Kennedys, the Schwarzeneggers, the Shrivers and all of that. And I wanted to talk to them at length about that. I wanted them to feel like they were their own people. I didn't want them to feel weighed down by it.
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