I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair.
My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.
My mom fed us a lot of processed food when we were kids, like chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas. I make those treats for my family, too, but I use organic cheeses and whole wheat bread and tortillas.
I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.
I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
As a mom, I know how important it is for my son Kiyan to stay healthy so he doesn't miss school days.
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.
I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.
At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms.
I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.