""If you're not good to someone, you will not only ruin their day, but guess what: You're going to feel really bad about yourself. So nix that behavior. "And I've taught them that if you clean up after yourself, you're going to have more calmness in your space," she added. "Your head is as messy as your room is. Someone said that to me, and it changed my life forever.""
""(Messes have) got to get cleaned up so you're ready for the next mess to be made," she said. "I have one daughter who's neater than I will ever be, and one daughter who is beyond messy. But someone reminded me that I was messy when I was young. And I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm expecting her to have my 50-year-old woman's standards of cleanliness!'""
""Barrymore added that she's experienced \"burnout from trying to mom really hard and work really hard.\" She emphasized the most important thing is her relationships, a value she said she aims to model to her daughters. "I talk to my kids. And I do try to show them that the more you work on yourself, the happier you're going to be, the more your friendships will thrive," she said. "We all need tools to navigate the world, and asking for help is everything.""
A mother of two, Olive (12) and Frankie (11), emphasizes modeling kindness and teaching that unkind behavior harms others and oneself. She links tidiness to mental calm, advising children to clean up to create clearer headspace and credits the phrase "Your head is as messy as your room" with changing her life. She acknowledges differences in her children's tidiness and resists imposing adult cleanliness standards. She reports experiencing burnout from balancing parenting and work and stresses that working on oneself, maintaining relationships, and asking for help lead to greater happiness and stronger friendships.
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