Mariah Carey has yet to tell her children she is engaged to marry James Packer.
The Australian billionaire proposed to the Hero singer last month in a New York restaurant after less than a year of dating, and Carey is waiting for the right moment to tell twins Monroe and Moroccan, her children with ex-husband Nick Cannon.
Insisting she'll be choosing her words carefully, because she wants to ensure her children understand they will always be close to their father, she tells E! News, "I haven't talked to them about it completely because they are so young so they don't really understand things yet so you have to go slowly and explain things and always make sure they know that this is only going to be good for them.
"Their lives are not going to change. For me, as long as we are together and they have a great relationship with their dad, then that's great. It's good. And they are great."