Tom Cruise discusses parenting skills

Tom Cruise has spoken out about raising daughter Suri in the public eye.

The Hollywood star admitted that getting the balance of protecting his child while not sheltering her from the real world is tricky.

"You just do the best you can," he says on today's GMTV. "It's something where we're raising her to - you know... protecting her, but also you don't want her to be sheltered in any way, and to be able to be engaged in life, and I think that's like any parent.

"And just keeping things calm and you find that as long as we're not worried about anything - you know, you just do the best you can with it."

Praising his daughter and wife Katie Holmes, he added: "[Suri] is such a happy girl, and I think that Kate is an extraordinary mother and very calm."

Cruise is currently in the UK promoting his World War II thriller Valkyrie.