Sarah Clarke on Her Conservation-Conscious Daughter
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Celebrity moms and dads — more often than not — won’t ever know the financial struggles that most parents know all too well, but Sarah Clarke draws on her own childhood for inspiration in raising daughter Olwyn Harper, turning 3-years-old later this month, nonetheless.
“I was given a clothes allowance at a pretty young age and it really taught me about picking and choosing what I wanted as opposed to just thinking things appeared,” she recalls in a segment for Spotlight to Nightlight. “We all had chores. I mowed the lawn, and I remember when that was passed down to me from my brother…I was like, ‘Yes!’”
To that end, Sarah says she makes a concerted effort to teach Olwyn to never be wasteful and it appears as though her message has been well-received. Olwyn is learning to use water in a cup when she brushes her teeth instead of leaving the faucet on, and her conservation efforts don’t end there! Adds Sarah,
“The other thing is toilet training…the toilet paper. Just the other day I was taking some, and she was like, ‘Not too much, Mom.’ She said, ‘Not too much.’ I said, ‘That’s right!’”
When asked by host Ali Landry what Sarah and Olwyn have in common, the 37-year-old former 24 actress conceded that her daughter “is a huge drama queen.”
“She’s just like…’I didn’t want to do it. Ahhhh.’ She throws herself down, like, ‘Noooo, Mommy!’ It’s just, like, so dramatic. But mainly it’s just sometimes her face, she’ll register something and it’s like looking in the mirror.”
Olwyn is Sarah’s daughter with husband Xander Berkeley.
Source: Spotlight to Nightlight
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