Parents who raise highly successful kids have these 3 things in common - CNBC

Here are three things parents of highly successful kids have in common. .

One of the traits that separate successful kids from the herd is that their parents regularly modeled empathy for them, she wrote for CNBC Make It.

Margot Machol Bisnow is the author of "Raising an Entrepreneur: How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dream." She interviewed 70 parents of highly successful kids to find out if there are any common parenting practices.

One thing she noticed was parents of successful kids showed a genuine interest in their kids' hobbies. .

"Sports, video games, debating, music, birdwatching — every child of the parents I spoke to had a passion outside of the classroom," she wrote for CNBC Make It?

"The parents never veered their kids away from the hobby because they knew it was keeping them mentally active." ?