Kathie Lee Gifford recently opened up about her approach to parenting her grown children so they didn't turn into "spoiled brats." The former talk-show host shares son Cody, 34, and daughter Cassidy, 30, with her late husband Frank Gifford who passed away in 2015 at age 85 from natural causes. "Frank and I were both very careful to raise our children," Gifford told the New York Post in a joint interview with Cassidy. "We didn’t want them to be one more spoiled brat in Hollywood kind of thing."

"We lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, but spoiled brats are everywhere. Just watch the TV shows these days," Gifford said with a laugh. "And a lot of them grow up to be spoiled adults. And, we were just really crazed about making them incredibly polite. That was so important to me that anytime we left our home and we were with other people or we were in public." The former "Today" host recalled a time when Cassidy, little girl at the time, was a "maniac" about being polite to everyone. "If a waitress with something brought her or something, Cassidy would say thank you," Gifford remembered. "And then if she didn’t say anything, Cassidy would go, ‘Thank you.’ And then she’d walk away and Cassidy would go, ‘She didn’t say thank you, mommy.' And one time the waitress goes, 'Oh, you're welcome, kid.'" Cassidy noted, That phase has passed by the way." "Now you say 'I'm sorry' all the time," Gifford told her daughter while laughing. "She's so sweet. That's what I mean. She's so sweet to everybody. I raised a very kind person. And Cody is the same way."

Both Cassidy and Cody are following in their mother's footsteps by pursuing careers in the entertainment industry. Cody is a film producer and screenwriter who founded Gifford Media Group. Cassidy is an actress who has starred in the movies "Time Trap, "The Gallows," "Like Cats and Dogs" and "Ten: Murder Island." She is now going to appear in a new faith based series, "The Baxters," alongside her mother.