Perform For Me, Katherine Heigl's Daughter!

Café Mom’s The Stir reports on Katherine Heigl’s latest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Heihl had her husband bring out her daughter Naleigh who she said was a big ham.

But not surprisingly, Naleigh did not want to perform on cue even as her mother had an entire studio audience applaud for her.

No, why would that be intimidating for a three-year-old?

I have to admit I have fallen prey to the same urge—to show off my children and all their magnificence and smarts.

And to my great dismay, whenever I have prompted them, they have gone totally blank-faced and stony still like they had no idea what I was asking them to do.

Say the ABC’s? What are those?!

It just goes to show—our children will do what they want, when they want.

That spontaneously adorable rendering of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star was one bright shining moment that parents better savor and enjoy.

Because they may never do it again! And certainly not on demand.

Rock It, Katherine Heigl!

Thanks Perezitos for showing me how like Katherine Heigl I am!

Heigl struggled with the same conflict that many mothers have—to work or not to work?

She tried to leave Hollywood but found herself unhappy, so she did what felt right, tried to find a way to balance motherhood and career.

"I asked myself what was wrong with me. How can I want to leave my child to go back to work? The simple truth is that I love my daughter passionately and as most mothers do, but she cannot fulfill everything in me. I needed to put this gift I've been given to perform back to use.

"Now, when I take a job, I look my daughter in the eye… and try to explain to her that Mommy has to go to work. And when she looks back at me and says, 'But why?', I tell her the truth: that work makes me a better person, a better woman, a better mother. Then I pray to God that she will understand one day and that my example will encourage her to find and follow her bliss as well."

Bravo to Heigl for being willing to discuss what some mothers might think is selfish. If mothers aren’t staying connected in some way to who they really are, how can they be a full person for their children?