Alicia Keys raising son to be caring

The singer said that more than anything, she wants one-year-old Egypt Daoud to understand the importance of helping those less fortunate.

“For him to be able to see what happens in the world and be able to see different cultures and people and happenings — I think it opens your mind wide up,” she told People magazine.

“While I was [in Africa] shooting [a documentary for World AIDS Day], I was pregnant. It was so powerful being there. I thought to myself, ‘Wow, here he is experiencing this and he’s not even here yet’. I think as a compassionate person, which I really want to teach him to be, you naturally want to lend and be a part of change. I know that naturally he’ll find the thing that he’s passionate about and wants to change.”

And one of his first lessons will be to give up some of his Christmas presents.

“His birthday came [last month] and there are like a hundred, billion, trillion thousand gifts,” she said. “That can’t happen for Christmas. I need to figure this out now because he’s not going to be this terror five-year-old child [shouting], ‘Give me!’”