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When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.