Donna Kelce Reveals How She Raised Down-to Earth Travis and Jason

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00:00Jason and Travis Kelce are two of the most adored siblings in the world.

00:04Their mom Donna talks to Us Weekly about raising the down-to-earth

00:08sports legends in this week's cover story.

00:11Months after Travis won his third Super Bowl ring and Jason announced his

00:15official retirement after 13 years with the Philadelphia Eagles,

00:19Kelcemania is still in full effect and no one is more proud than their mom.

00:23In signature Kelce fashion, she refuses to take too much credit for raising

00:27two of the most beloved and grounded sports figures in recent history

00:31alongside their dad Ed Kelce, whom she divorced in 2008.

00:34Here is what she recently told us.

00:36I think that they had phenomenal coaches, fantastic teachers,

00:42great support, families that were around us because we traveled so much,

00:47baseball, football, really nice individuals that are still friends to this day for me.

00:55And I think it was a menagerie of all those individuals with all those great qualities

01:03that rubbed off on them through all those years.

01:06And I'm just very, very happy that they got those opportunities

01:11and they turned into the men that they are.

01:14Now Donna says above all else, she and Ed raised their sons to be kind,

01:19telling us, I just wanted to make sure that they treated everyone the same.

01:23I said, I don't care if they're the individuals who are cleaning the toilets

01:27or they're the CEO of organizations.

01:30It's basically, treat everybody with respect like you would want to be treated.

01:34And she approves of Travis' nine-month romance with Taylor Swift,

01:38telling us that she thinks Taylor's new album, The Tortured Poets Department,

01:42is her best one.

01:44She also has a great bond with Kylie Kelce, telling us,

01:47we're very similar in our likes and dislikes and how we feel about the world.

01:51And the parenting advice she now gives Jason is the same philosophy she lived by

01:56when he and Travis were kids.

01:58Let your children choose what they love to do.

02:01Don't try to steer them into something.

02:03Give them an opportunity to get involved in as much as you possibly can

02:07and let them decide.

02:09They will be good at whatever they love to do.

02:12It's just the way it is.

02:14If they love to do something, they will do it over and over and over again

02:17and that's the best thing that you can do is repetition and keep doing things.