Heidi Klum: `My kids are dog-trainers in the making`

The 38-year-old Project Runway said that Leni, seven, Harry, five, Johan, four and 20-month-old baby Lou have been teaching their two new German shepherds how to behave around the house.

'They're showing them how to sit!' she told Us Magazine. 'Lou says, 'Freddy sit. Freddy sit. Freddy sit, sit, sit!' She says that all day long!'

And she said that Lou is just like her daddy, Seal, and 'likes to dance'.

'She's very quiet. Like at the dinner table, she's not loud,' said Klum. 'The other kids are very loud and she kind of sits there and watches everyone. She's kind of sponging everything up, and I know she's memorising everything - it's going to come out soon.'

The model said that she is also intent on making sure that her children see 'what goes on around them'.

'Growing up in Beverly Hills, you live in a bubble,' she explained. 'New York is great because you see a different way of living. They see people living on the streets and they ask a lot of questions. I'm honest with them and I tell them that not everyone lives the same way. Not everyone has a garden. Not everyone has a maid.'

'I try not to overwork their little brains on subjects that maybe they shouldn't know about yet,' Klum added, 'but when they ask I tell them the truth.'