Like just about any other teenager, Jenna Fischer butted heads with her parents over what she felt were restrictive rules and kept to her room. It wasn't until her senior year when she discovered a date book they kept on her that she developed a newfound appreciation for mom and dad. The book included entries such as "You tried strained peaches today and you loved them!" and "Today you tried on your Easter outfit. It has little bunnies on it and you look so cute!"

"It had honestly never dawned on me that the people responsible for incarcerating me in my bedroom... had once been two kids who were overwhelmed and excited about having their first baby," Fischer told the Oprah website. "... To see that kind of humanness in them at a time when I felt so disconnected from them was deeply affecting."

Another major source of tension was when Fischer decided she wanted to move to Los Angeles after high school, but her parents stood firm that she go to college. Looking back, she's glad they did. "I was so eager to get started on my acting career and I didn't see what I needed to learn," Fischer told Master Chat. "But my parents insisted I go to college and I'm really glad I went... I don't think Hollywood is a great place for a 17 or 18 year old kid to be figuring out who they are."