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Brooke Shields: I'm a Strict Mum
When it comes to the sort of mother she is with her own daughters, Rowan, 4, and Grier, born in May 2006 (their dad is Shields's husband of six years, TV writer-producer Chris Henchy), Shields says: "I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parents. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves." Not that Shields apologizes for being strict. "The worst part about it is when I look at my daughter [Rowan], and she'll be fighting with some other kid, and I have to be careful not to always make it her fault. But I can only tell her what to do – I can't tell the other kid. I'll tell her, 'Hey, you suck it up; you give him the toy, and we'll talk about it later.' " Admits Shields, "So she's the one who always has to take the high road, which is hard for a 4-year-old."
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