Jackie's family adventure 'IT MADE ME BEYOND HAPPY'

The task was to have a holiday they could all cherish. The results? Read on!

- Rebekah Hebenton

For Jackie van Beek, success isn't measured in red carpets or TV ratings - it's found in the joyful, chaotic moments of creativity shared with her children.

Whether they're being bribed into reading her scripts or starring alongside her in Educators, the writer, actor and director says her teens are her greatest collaborators.

"I offer them money to read scripts, either ones I've written or when I'm deciding whether to take a job or not," says the 49-year-old. "They sit with me, advising me about what I should and shouldn't be doing, which I thoroughly enjoy. And it's a great way for them to earn pocket money.

"I feel so touched that I have children who don't feel humiliated by the ridiculous things that their mum and dad decide to take on."

It's not just behind the camera that Jackie's kids, June, 18, Emmett, 16, and Cassie, 13 - whom she shares with her husband and fellow creative Jesse Griffin, 51 – have the knack.

The Breaker Upperers star proudly shares that all of her children are fine performers in their own right, even though none seem particularly interested in pursuing it as a career.

Earlier this year, all three starred in the fourth season of the fully improvised series