Advice to my children for when I'm dead and gone:

Squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom up, and put the cap on tight.  It's common sense.  Don't be a secret slob with globby toothpaste and a rusty razor in your medicine cabinet.

Don't double- fist electronics.  You look like a tool, it's making you dumber, and you slowly become incapable of paying attention to anything for more than 30 seconds.

Don't leave your dirty shit laying around.  No one, not even a person who loves you, wants to pick up your shit.

Just because other people are acting like assholes, you can still be kind.  Somebody ought to be the good guy.

Books are life reincarnated.  You can learn from other people's suffering and find solidarity with the human condition just by paying attention to what is recorded by people in books.

Don't eat your feelings.  You'll get fat and then be even less happy than you were before you picked up the chocolate.

When someone treats you like shit, you're allowing it.  Stand up for yourself, and people will respect you more.

Never underestimate the power of a hot bath.  Add a candle, and you have the equivalent of a session of therapy (for a lot less money).

Really listen to music:  the radio is fine, but get deep with Head music and old hip hop and French acoustic and Latin jazz and Deep South blues.  You never know what you might hear that changes your life.

Learn to play an instrument so you can express yourself a different way.  

Never stop learning.  Seriously.  Not in a "school" way, but in a "life-is-exceptional-and-there-are-millions-of-cool-things-to-learn-about way".

Don't let other people try to tell you how you feel.  (And someone will always be around to try.)

Get your teeth cleaned; bad breath is repulsive. (No really...)

Travel.  Don't get stuck in one place.  Life doesn't exist in a vacuum.  If all your "people" look the same, you need to mix it up a little.

Make friends; life can be very lonely when there's no one to talk to.  (Trust me, I know.)

When you're old enough, drink champagne just because it's Tuesday or something - make your own occasions to celebrate. 

Acknowledge that popcorn and diet Dr Pepper can be a good breakfast combo.

Above all, be good to yourself, because the world can be a pretty harsh place, and the last thing you need is to beat up on yourself.