Vanessa Lachey Shares Parenting Rule She and Husband Nick Swear By — Inspired by Their Childhoods (Exclusive)

The two share sons Camden, 11, and Phoenix, 7, as well as daughter Brooklyn, 9

Vanessa Lachey is sharing the one rule she and husband Nick Lachey always follow when it comes to their three kids.

In a recent interview with PEOPLE, the Love Is Blind co-host, 43, opened up about parenting her kids Camden, 11, Brooklyn, 9, and Phoenix, 7, with her musician husband, 50, sharing that there's one rule that the two never forget.

"The one thing that we've always agreed on is that we will always, always let our children know how much we love them," Vanessa says. "It sounds so simple, but I didn't have that constant affirmation, physically and verbally, when I was younger, nor did Nick."

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"I mean, of course you know you're loved, but do you really? And sometimes, you like to hear it and you like to feel it. And so, I don't think that we've ever talked about, 'This is what we have to do,' but between the two of us, we know our kids need to always know they're loved, especially after a disciplinary moment."

Vanessa says if the two need to discipline their kids, they always circle back a few hours later to make sure that their kids still know that they're loved.

"At some point, after the discipline has settled in and they've had their moment, we will come in with a loving — whether it's a loving touch or a loving conversation — to let them know why this was important and why it got to that."

"I think it's just about letting them know they feel loved," the mom of three says. "I mean, that's all I wanted to know, that I was loved by mom and my dad, and so we will always give that to them."

Vanessa shared more of her parenting rules later in the interview, explaining her decision to not let her kids watch some of their work, including Love Is Blind and Nick's other Netflix show, Perfect Match.

"No, they don't watch our shows. They do watch NCIS: Hawaii because they know so much about [it]. And I actually come home, if I'm cut, I'll come home with the wound so they can touch it," Vanessa says. "They pulled off the scar so they can see, 'This is fake, Mommy's fake. This isn't blood, this is fake. It's a movie.'"

"So for that, I'm grateful that they can watch it, but I don't think that they've ever seen anything else we've done."

Although they've seen some of their dad's performances on The Masked Singer, Vanessa says her kids have yet to watch any of Love Is Blind.

"Other kids at the school talk about it," Vanessa says of the show, "so that is probably another layer that Nick and I have in our parenting that maybe other families don't. But I think that just keeping them grounded and reminding them that we are Mom and Dad first is all we can continue to do."

"And they just see us as Mom and Dad. And I've asked them, 'Does it bother you?' And they're like, 'No, because you're my mom,' and I love that."

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