whengeorgiasmiled.org<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe app has had nearly a quarter million downloads around the world including the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and India. I’m proud to share that it was recognized on Capitol Hill by the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse as one of the two apps in 2014 most effective in the fight to end domestic violence.<\/p>\n
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Q: Can you touch upon what you teach kids about bystander responsibility?<\/strong><\/p>\nI’m happy to! Our young people need to feel empowered to speak up when they witness behavior that isn’t right, or alert someone in authority who can take action. It’s important that we help change the attitude and thinking of generations to come.
\nWe need to teach our young people to treat others with dignity and respect in order to end the cycle of abuse.
\nI always told my sons that if they’re witness to bullying or violence and don’t do anything to help, they’re just as much at fault as the bully. I can remember one day my younger son, Jordan, came home and said that he needed nine dollars to take to school the next day. I think he was probably in third grade. When I asked him why he needed the money, he said that there was a kid at school who wore the same pair of bad jeans every day, and was teased mercilessly behind his back for doing so. Jordan had gone to the kid and said he would give him a dollar for every day in a row that he didn’t wear the pants in question. He made a bet to see how long the boy could go without wearing the jeans. I realized that Jordan had tried to come up with a way to stop the teasing without hurting the boy’s feelings, and felt a great sense of pride in him for wanting to do the right thing! That’s the kind of behavior we need to encourage, and we need to start young.<\/p>\n
Q: In addition to being an activist and philanthropist, you have a very successful lifestyle brand, Robin McGraw Revelation. Tell us about some of your products.<\/strong><\/p>\nRobin McGraw Revelation launched with record-breaking<\/u> success on HSN with a collection of skincare products that I’m very proud of! The brand is growing quickly and has already expanded to include fragrance, lipgloss and candles, among other lifestyle products.<\/p>\n
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I’d actually like to expand on the fragrance line, named after my mother, Georgia. I started with more that 300 notes and worked with top perfumers for more than three years till I felt like I had the perfect fragrance! I had narrowed it down to a few final choices and it was actually on Mother’s Day that I marked the bottom of the bottle that was my favorite, and asked my family to smell them and choose which they thought was the one<\/em>. Phillip, Jay and Jordan ALL picked the fragrance I had marked, and I knew I had my fragrance!<\/p>\nThe beautiful fragrance lasts without being overwhelming, making it a perfect signature scent for day or night. Speaking of signatures, I also want to point out that it’s my mother’s actual signature on the bottle. That was an important detail to me, as she was the inspiration behind the fragrance. In addition to the eau de parfum, the collection includes a shower gel, body butter and hand cream.<\/p>\n
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Q: You mentioned that you and your husband Dr. Phil don’t fight, but you do communicate through your disagreements. Can you give us some advice on having a loving marriage with healthy communication?
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nThe fact that we don’t fight doesn’t mean we don’t disagree, but we communicate with each other without yelling or name-calling. This is a process we put in place from the start because a good relationship is not born; it’s made over time through an ongoing process of loving, unselfish negotiation. In my relationship with Phillip, I learned early on what upsets him, what irritates him, what makes him mad – and I choose not to do those things. And he treats me with the same respect.<\/p>\n
Phillip and I started planning our marriage long<\/u> before we got married by talking about what we expected from each other, and what we could and could not live with. I can actually remember telling Phillip, “I don’t just want to be married, I want to be happily married.” That was my number one goal. And so we began what I guess you could call a negotiation process. It wasn’t just one conversation. It’s been many conversations over the last 40 years, and it’s a conversation we will continue to have. I believe as people grow together as a couple, needs can change, and that’s why the dialogue has to be ongoing.<\/p>\n
Is our marriage perfect? Absolutely not. Nobody’s is. We all know that sometimes life gets in the way.<\/p>\n
But I believe the success of a marriage is in large part based on the willingness of each partner to do what it takes to meet the other’s needs.<\/p>\n
Q: How has being a mother shaped who you are?<\/strong><\/p>\nBeing a mother hasn’t shaped who I am, it IS who I am. Without question or hesitation I can tell you that the achievement of which I am the most proud is that of being a mother. I’ve often said that I believe my purpose on this earth is to be a wife and mother.<\/p>\n
I will admit, though, that lately I’ve wondered if that statement was a little premature, because ever since our precious grandbabies were born, I feel like my true purpose is to be a grandmother!! I love those grandbabies so much! As a parent, you worry about getting everything right, but as a grandparent you just love them and then send them home. If they want popsicles for breakfast, OK! It’s love without worry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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