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"    Joely Fisher, the very funny star of &amp;#039;Til Death, just teamed up with Kids Care Clubs, an organization that provides volunteer opportunities for kids 5\u201313, and Quaker, makers of those famous oats, to promote volunteerism among kids. Here, she tells about raising her daughters, Skylar, 6, and True, 21 months; her marriage secrets; and how her famous mom encouraged her to get involved in the community. Why did you want to join up with Kids Care Clubs? It&amp;#039;s sort of a natural fit. I was raised by the consummate humanitarian, Connie Stevens, and taught that it&amp;#039;s important to take care of people who don&amp;#039;t have what we have. Years ago, my mother brought Native American children to Los Angeles and gave them a summer camp for a couple of years in a row. She ended up putting them all through college. It&amp;#039;s important to me to make sure that my children are now learning to take care of others.     What sort of volunteer projects have you been involved with? From the time I was a child, we would go to the senior centers to sing Christmas carols and go to the mission in downtown L.A. to serve Thanksgiving meals. Recently, I was in New York and visiting a senior center with some kids from the Staten Island Kids Care Club. True, who&amp;#039;s just 21 months, had her first volunteering experience. I have a great photograph my two children looking into the eyes of this lovely older woman, Ruth. [That&amp;#039;s the photo at right.] What can parents do to encourage their kids to volunteer? Go to the website (QuakerKidsCare.org) to find out what is needed in your community. It&amp;#039;s going to be different everywhere, but it will give you creative ideas on gift giving, places to go plant a garden or to take care of some kids. It&amp;#039;s also a place for bragging rights. Parents can go on there and say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so proud of my children and what they thought of doing.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve been married almost 11 years. Do you think that starring in &amp;#039;Til Death (which airs Wednesday nights on Fox) has taught you anything about marriage? I think that we get a little peek into the lives of our writers. They all whip stories out of their own homes and bring them in and exaggerate them. I don&amp;#039;t think that the relationship of Joy and Ed Stark mirrors my marriage in any way. Maybe in another 10 years you should call me again! Do you have any secrets to a happy marriage? Special Sauce, I like to call it. I think it&amp;#039;s absolutely a sense of humor and coming together on common ground as far as parenting. And my little secret is: We have a social life that we enjoy together, and then we have our own friends\u2014and remember not to fight on the holidays. What&amp;#039;s the best parenting advice you&amp;#039;ve ever heard? My mom told me that my sister would always be my best friend and would never leave me no matter what. We shouldn&amp;#039;t fight over boys, which is what happened actually when we were 15 and 16: A boy decided that he was going to flirt with both of us and we got into a fight over it. My sister&amp;#039;s truly my best friend, and now that I have two daughters of my own, I see them loving each other and then I see them also in conflict and it&amp;#039;s sort of an interesting thing. Do you have any last-minute meal ideas? I&amp;#039;m sure that everybody who has children out there knows all they want is beige food, so it&amp;#039;s pasta, a potato, rice or a very, very plain piece of chicken breast. What about tips for getting your girls to eat healthfully? No, but if anybody has some for me, I&amp;#039;m willing to take &amp;#039;em. I disguise everything with Parmesan cheese. Anything else you&amp;#039;re working on? I want to record an album. I want to reach back to those great old songs, maybe to recreate standards. I would really love to do the music of Dusty Springfield.\u2014Jennifer Conrad "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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