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Katie Holmes on Parenting Suri: I Want to Be Just Like My Own Mom

PEOPLE
By Jeff Nelson
9/14/16

When it comes to raising daughter Suri, Katie Holmes looks to her own mom, Kathleen, for parenting cues.

"She's just so kind and has such a pure heart; she really leads with those two qualities, so I try to do the same," Holmes, 37, told PEOPLE at the Sept. 8 opening of the restaurant Avra Madison in New York City.

"She's just so kind and very generous, so I try my best to embody that and pass that on to my own daughter," Holmes says.

The night before the restaurant launch – which the actress-director hosted – Holmes took her mother as her date to the re-opening of the Cartier Mansion in New York, an outing that doubled as a birthday celebration for Kathleen.

"It's always a blessing to be able to have time with my mom – especially time in the city with her," Holmes says. "We always have a good time."

The mother-daughter duo always have a good time with Suri, now 10, too.