We have a tendency to look at celebrities as these other world creatures who don't experience life the way we do. And yes that is mostly true. But we all have a universal experience when it comes to the ups and downs of parenting.

They struggle with being working parents who have to choose between the movie and the soccer matches, they deal with the heartbreak of infertility and miscarriages, the same pregnancy woes we do (maybe in a better wardrobe though), and as rich, beautiful and privileged as they may be that still won't keep them from dealing with a tantrum in a public place either!

Drew Barrymore recently described on Late Night with Seth Meyers how she had taken her daughters Olive and Frankie to Disney World and one of her daughters had a complete public throw yourself on the ground moment because she wouldn't let her chase a duck!

Celebrities really are just like us! Even their own children have meltdowns over the dumbest things at the happiest place on earth!

Luckily for us Drew Barrymore snapped a picture of the incident so we could experience the moment with her. Seth Meyers who is a new Dad wanted to know what you do in those situations and if you get any kind of warning at all that they're coming.

Drew recommends having 10 tools in a meltdown arsenal, because these meltdowns come at the most interesting times. I couldn't agree with her more!

Here are 20 other parenting tips and musings from celebrity parents!

20 Putting Kid's To Bed is Like Negotiating With ISIS

"Bedtime makes you realize how completely incapable you are of being in charge of another human being. My children act like they've never been to sleep before. 'Bed? What's that? No, I'm not doing that.' They never want to go to bed. This is another thing that I will never have in common with my children. Every morning when I wake up, my first thought is, 'When can I come back here?' It's the carrot that keeps me motivated."

-Jim Gaffigan

I love Jim Gaffigan and his take on being a parent. He just gets it. I tell my husband every single night "why do our kids act like bed is a foreign concept. They've been doing it literally since day 1". We've tried all kinds of systems.

The reward system, the no reward system, the yell system, the begging system, the pleading system, the "you'll eventually fall asleep on your own" system and nothing works. I heard Jim say once that it's like negotiating with terrorist at bedtime.

"Please! If you go to bed I will get you a helicopter and a bag full of unmarked $20's, just stay in your room for goodness sake!" I wake up and figure out the best way I can construct my day so that I can get back in bed as quickly as humanly possible.

And no matter how nice you are before bed, how many cups of water you get or how many bedtime shows you let them watch its never quite enough is it?

19 She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body

'The question why I would let Willow cut her hair, first the let must be challenged, this is a world where women [and] girls are constantly reminded that they don't belong to themselves — that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self-determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are her domain."

-Jada Pinkett Smith, Mom to Jaden and Willow

"When you have a little girl, it's like how can you teach her that you're in control of her body? She can't cut my hair but that's her hair, she has got to have command of her body."

-Will Smith, father to Trey, Jaden and Willow

Will Smith and his wife Jada received a lot of criticism for "allowing" their 12-year old daughter to cut her hair. Jada used Facebook as a way to hit back at her critics and remind them that Willow is her own person. It has always been important to raise strong children, especially strong girls.

But in today's society it is even more important to make sure we are raising girls with the message that they belong to themselves, that their body is theirs. Have you ever heard the phrase "A woman's hair is her glory?" What a backwards message to send to girls. The whole of a girl is her glory.

I love how the Smith's are raising strong children whose self-worth is rooted in who they are as people and that they know the power they hold as strong individuals. It's an important message to drive home to our kids even from a very young age.

18 We Are All In This Together

"It takes a village."

- Hillary Clinton mom to Chelsea and Grandmother to Charlotte and Aiden

Regardless of where you lean politically we can all agree on one thing, it really does take a village. Nowadays Mom's aren't just stay-at-home Mom's waiting for Dad to pull in the driveway at 5 o'clock sharp for dinner.

We are working Moms, we are work-at-home Mom's, we are "like to get out and do something for ourselves" Mom's and to do that successfully you need a team of people to do it. Your team could be a full-time Nanny, a part-time Mother's helper, your husband or family that lives close by.

Regardless of what your team looks like it's important for every parent to have that in place. I have 4 children and there are some days where my husband works very, very long hours. On those days I know I'm going to be alone I have a family that I know I can count on to come over and help me do dinner and baths if need be.

But if you aren't as fortuned to have family near by seek out your village by joining a local Mom's group. Connect with other parent's with children your kids age and offer babysitting swaps or connect with a local church and see if they have Mom groups that you can be a part of.

And remember to be "the village" to another Mom or Dad when you can. We're all in this together.

17 I Want To Consume My Children Like A Beast

'"'I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I'd consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but in a friendlier, more mom-like way. Their little bodies make me salivate. It takes everything I have not to swallow them whole."

-Amy Poehler, mom to Abel and Archie

Every single day, several times a day I will look at my 14-month old daughter and I am overwhelmed with this desire to just take a spoon and eat her up. Instead of getting a spoon, because that must cross some kind of boundaries that she'll need therapy for I'll settle for a few nibbles of her cheek or ears.

And apparently Amy and I are actually pretty normal! According to the Association of Psychology Science researchers at Yale University believe that this study can help us understand people's emotions better. The so called "cute aggression" is a good thing because it helps us balance our overall emotions.

When you just can't stand how freaking adorable your kid is your desire to "eat them" is just your brains way of handling all the cuteness. So the next time you start eating tiny toes and fingers remind yourself that its good and probably making you a better parent.

16 It's An Extremely Humbling Experience

"It’s an extremely humbling experience and I’ve never had more poop on my person! I was talking with someone the other day and they were like, ‘Well, I have a dog!’ But imagine when you clean up your dog’s poop. You roll in there with the heavy duty Bounty paper towels and you stand like you’ve got a 10-foot pole away from it. I’m like, ‘Dude, when you have a kid, you just get in there, man!’"

-Justin Timberlake Dad to Silas 

So much poop. So much vomit. So many sleepless nights. And I for one am not a fan of when dog parents try to equate what they have to do for an animal to what we have to do for a human.

During one of those awful sleepless nights after having kid #2 we lived in an apartment and the next day a woman came up to my balcony and was like "I so understand what you go through with the baby. I heard you up last night as I was walking my dog. And I'm just like 'Oh I can so relate!'"

No lady you can not relate. No matter how much you love your dog or even how much mess your dog creates it will never compare to a human child. You don't HAVE to do anything for your pet. You can lock them outside with a bowl of water and a pillow and they'd survive for a while and be happy to bask in the sun and chase squirrels.

Try locking your kid outside to play for just 10 minutes. It doesn't work. Trust me.

15 Can We Leave Them At Death Valley and Check On Them In An Hour?

"We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there — all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway."

-Kelli Williams mom to Sarame, Ravi, and Kiran

Yasss honey, yasss! I consider myself to be a stellar parent if I make it through each day without trading someone on Craigslist for a roll of toilet paper or dropping them off on the corner!

I can't tell you how many days my kids are running on a constant loop through the house, screaming, knocking things off counters, spilling stuff and trying to kill each other that I consider how much I could get for them on the black market.

A few months ago I was having an especially trying day with them and then I pulled a Dora cup out of the dishwasher and my 2 year-old asked who was on the cup and I told him and he said "Oh my gosh! I watch that show! Dora is so beautiful just like me!"

The ice on my cold heart started to thaw and I immediately decided to remove my FREE KIDS listing from the Facebook Swap site and wait a few more days to see if I changed my mind.

14 It's Not A Glow, It's Just Sweat

"People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death. I think they just tell pregnant women they're glowing to make them feel good about themselves, because everything makes them a little bit emotional." 

- Jessica Simpson Mom to Maxwell and Ace 

I run hot pregnant or not, but when I'm pregnant I'm REALLY REALLY hot. And unfortunately all my pregnancies have been in the summer, so... that was a stellar idea. When I was pregnant with my first my brother-in-law and his wife were living with us and one night at dinner everyone started joking around about how cold it was in the house.

Even my husband was chiming in about the frigid temperatures in our house. I jumped up, ran outside and sat in the car and started crying. My husband wised up and came out and took me for ice cream as I cried hysterically in the car "I'm not an evil person! I'm just so hot."

Once I came down from my emotional mountain top I realized that this was in fact not a very big deal at all and besides it was really cold in the house. But when you're pregnant and hot all reasoning goes out the window!

13 I Will Always Have A Baby Bump

"I am not pregnant, but I've had three kids, and there is a 'bump.' From now on, ladies, I will have a 'bump,' and it will be my 'baby bump,' and let's just all settle in and get used to it. It's not going anywhere."

- Jennifer Garner. Mom to Violet, Seraphina and Samuel

A woman goes through a lot of changes when she becomes pregnant and after she gives birth. Her butt get's bigger, her boobs sag a little lower, her belly is jiggly and sometimes even her feet grow larger.

Too often postpartum women are bombarded with images of celebrity women who "snapped back" only a week after giving birth. We're told to just "run around" after kids to loose those extra pounds and breastfeed because that's what supermodel Gisele did and all that weight will just fall off.

But sometimes, a lot of times that is far from the truth. The after-baby Mom bod is something to be admired and held in great esteem. You sustained another human being for 9 months inside of you and those stretch marks and that C-section scar are a badge of honor. That should be celebrated.

We don't need to be consumed with getting our body back. Our body didn't go anywhere.

12 Yell At Your Kids, It's Good For Them

"If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them."

Reese Witherspoon, Mom to Ava, Deacon and Tennessee 

This quote is one of my favorites of the entire list. I am a SAHM and I spend a lot of time with my kids. Like a lot. But also find myself yelling a lot. Like I just stopped typing this now to yell at my kids to stop throwing the basketball at the window. So I yell a lot, but thanks to Reese I realize that it just means I'm a stellar mom who has her priorities right (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

I always try to follow up my yells with "But I do love you very much" so that even when they're being yelled at constantly they understand that they're being yelled at by someone who has their best interest at heart and who would run in front of a freight train just to get a break  stop a freight train to keep them safe.

It's also refreshing to hear a celebrity with all of her southern charm and access to help be so real about what parenting actually looks like.

11 I Want To Run Away And Never Look Back

"The other day we were driving home and I was thinking, okay, Motel 6. If I can just find one and go there and disappear. Disappear from my life."

-Gwen Stefani, mom to Kingston, Zuma and Apollo 

This is going to sound like a really crazy person thing to say. And I apologize in advance if I offend anyone. Ok. Here goes. Sometimes when I watch shows with people in the hospital I think to myself "Wow, they are so lucky to be like just laying in bed all day, watching TV and having people bring them jello and ice." Still reading?

I know that's kind of a bad thought, but sometimes being a parent can be terribly overwhelming and you look for breaks anywhere you can them get. My first mother's day after having two kids I was suffering from PPD, not loosing any of my baby weight and just pure exhaustion so I told my husband all I wanted was to be locked in a hotel room for one night by myself.

Even with the engorged boobs it was the very best sleep I had gotten any a long time. Maybe we shouldn't break our leg to land our self in a hospital bed or run away and toss our cell phone, but take breaks for yourself.

And if Gwen Stefani is surrounded by nannies, personal trainers, chefs and assistants and can still recognize the overwhelming task of being a Mom and the desire to (sometimes) run at all cost than us mere mortals shouldn't be ashamed of feeling the same.

10 This Goes By Really, Really Fast

"When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side — every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast."

-Salma Hayek, mom to Valentina 

There is a season to everything and we often forget that in parenthood that the colic eventually stops, the having to wipe other peoples butts eventually stops, the tantrums in the middle of the grocery store over a pack of Little Debbie's Oatmeal cookies eventually stops and that's good. But you know what else stops?

Dressing them in little footie pajamas, hearing them refer to "yesterday" as "last day", tiny socks and bibs eventually get packed up and long forgotten, and eventually you will pick them up one day for the very last time. As much as parenting can be hard and can make you feel like you'll never come up for air again, you eventually will.

Children get older. Revel in it now because one day you won't look like the sweet little Mom obsessed with her cute tiny baby you'll look like crazy Mother Gothel as you beg your teenage son to come back and give you nose kisses and that's just weird.

9 You're Sleepy Just Go The F To Sleep!

"My biggest parenting conundrum: Why it is so hard to put someone who is already sleepy to sleep."

-Chrissy Teigen Mom to Luna 

Chrissy Teigen is total mom, wife, and woman goals. She lives this amazing life where she gets serenaded everyday by John Legend, she popped out a baby and like an hour later was in cut-offs and crop top making breakfast and best of all her life consist of cooking and eating delicious meals and seemingly not gaining even a half-ounce.

But just because she has a team of people who do her ponytail for her just to eat BBQ doesn't mean she 's immune to the conundrum that is baby sleep. Like that phrase "sleep like a baby". Who actually came up with that? Not a Mom, that's for sure.

They tell you in every sleep book and study (of which I've read several) that sleep begets sleep, but how do you get a baby to beget sleep? Me, when I'm exhausted within literal moments of hitting the pillow I'm snoring and drooling.

When a baby really needs to sleep they don't actually want to sleep and so you spend all of their sleep time bouncing, rocking, shushing and feeding all for them to conk out for 20 minutes, wake up and then start the whole carousel over again.

8 My Mother Wiped Feces Off Of Me

"'My mother did this for me once,' she will realize as she cleans feces off her baby's neck. "My mother did this for me." And the delayed gratitude will wash over her as it does each generation and she will make a mental note to call me. And she will forget. But I'll know."

-Tina Fey, mom to Alice and Penelope

I am the oldest of 8 kids and there is not a day that goes by that dealing with my own 4 that I am not constantly reminded of what rock stars my parents were to deal with 8 of us and seemingly never loosing their cool.

I am never more grateful for my own parents then when I'm subjected to my own children, well that sounded mean, but you know what I meant, right? My kids are really into putting on shows in the backyard. Race car shows where they just zoom the car up and down the pavement, basketball shows, musical performances with sticks and rocks.

And they line up every single chair that we own for two guest-their father and myself. And every single time I am reminded of when my siblings and I would put on "circus" shows which would just consist of us riding around the circular driveway standing up on our bikes in the backyard or dolphin shows in the pool.

God bless our parents who watch all of that and do all of that with a smile.

7 Don't Forget Who You Are

"Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are."

- Beyoncé mother to Blue Ivy and expecting twins

Many mothers loose themselves after they have children. We forget that before we were changing diapers, packing lunches, and building sandcastles that we were people, women who had big dreams or maybe just a passion for cross-stitch.

Somewhere along the line that gets lost and our focus shifts and we become laser focused on all the little people around us and we sit at a computer wearing stretched out t-shirts and halo of frizz around our hair (not speaking from experience or anything).

Beyoncé is a great reminder to women that we can be mothers, excellent mothers and still be sexy, still do things that make us smile and happy. We all need to be reminded constantly, if not daily that taking time out for ourselves isn't a bad thing, it's actually a necessity.

When we can step away and remember who we are outside of our little ankle biters we can come back in and be better Mom's.

6 I'm An Annoying Parent

"I never thought I'd be that annoying person, but as soon as Winnie was born I was showing iPhone snaps to a cab driver."

-Jimmy Fallon Dad to Winnie Frances 

We have all been those parents who load copious amounts of pictures of our new baby on Facebook. The right from the womb shot, first day in the car, the babies first bath, the first time they wore jeans (guilty), the first time they took a bite of real food, the first time they walked, the first time they clapped, the first time they closed their eyes.

You get the picture (no pun intended). But when you become a new parent you're just so infatuated with this little being and all of their little nuances that you want the whole world to just soak them in the way you do.

But not everyone wants to see that, especially your single friends who are just trying to Netflix and Chill and eat some Za (is that still a thing?). They have entire websites dedicated for just telling us to STFU but the jokes on them because they'll eventually be us too.

5 I'm A Parent and I Don't Know Anything

"I came to parenting the way most of us do-knowing nothing and trying to learn everything."

-Mayim Bialik mom to Miles and Frederick 

The biggest parenting challenges I am dealing with right now is trying to figure out how to get my two older boys to clean their room. Every single day it looks like we've been robbed.

They have stuff strewn from one end of the room to the other and it's a process that in reality should only take them 20 minutes to fix but can sometimes take 2 hours because there is so much fighting and so much "But he's not helping!" and "I don't know how to pick up trash" that all I do is yell, set a timer, threaten, and beg.

It's a sick cycle that we repeat at least 3 times a week. I wish I could just dig out the old parenting manual and refer to page 2,345 and finally learn the proper way to get them to just clean their room without all the hysterics.

And it's true that there is a billion-dollar parenting advice industry and I'm sure I could find something, but there is just so much to pull from that I don't really know where to start. But I press on anyway because if I go down I'm going to go down being the book smartest parent ever.

4 Kid's Are Suicidal

"Children are f—ing crazy. They’re also suicidal. Like, at the park, certain jungle gyms have an opening for older kids to jump out of. She’s 19 months; she can’t jump. She just walks off it as if she’s on a pirate ship,"

-Mila Kunis Mom to Wyatt Isabelle and Dimitri

A few months ago my husband and I had a very busy day of errands and appointments so it was easier to drop me off at my PTA meeting and let him take the kids to the park while he waited for me to finish.

While I'm sitting in my meeting I  thought to myself "My cell phone doesn't work in here and I bet you Shawn is going to call because someone got hurt." sure enough someone came in from the office and said "Your husband is in the parking lot and says one of your kids broke their arm."

Flash forward a day and we have a kid with a buckle fracture who needs a cast who basically flies off the examining table in a "cool Spiderman stunt jump." Completely ignoring the fact that he broke his arm. That's the thing I love about my kid's. They're daring, slightly suicidal and a bit crazy but they get right back up like nothing ever happened.

3 It's Like Shadows Had Just Been Invented

"I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment."

-Thandie Newton, motherto Ripley, Nico and Booker

Thandie Newton star of HBO's Westworld and her husband Ol Parker are parents to Ripley, Nico and Booker and she expresses what every parent feels when we watch our toddler first begin to discover the big wide world. When my oldest was about 2 is when he discovered bugs.

We could lay there for what felt like hours on the ground watching ants and he would exclaim each time one would go by.

I've learned there is a certain kind of magic that comes with being a Mom. That children have a way that makes us slow down and appreciate little things like the escalator or the horn from a big rig truck. Once you become a parent a puddle is not just an inconvenience when you step out of your car, but it's a huge opportunity to make "muddy puddles" and giggles.

2 Mom Needs To Forgive Herself

"Forgive yourself --every minute of the day, every day that would be number 1. You always focus on your mistakes as a mom, and you just have to know that you're doing the best you can with what you know."

-Viola Davis mom to daughter Genesis

One particular evening while I was pregnant with my second we were having dinner at parents and I was hormonal, very pregnant and fighting with the 4 year-old to eat his dinner.

And I was pleading, begging, bargaining and nothing was working I finally started feeding him and he refused to open his mouth so I maybe pushed the spoon a tiny bit hard against his lips. Nothing bordering on a child protect service call but definitely enough that I felt like the crappiest Mom ever and he was a bit stunned.

Once I realized what I'd done we headed home sat on the sofa and just kind of cried together. I was already very anxious on how it would be to add a second kid to our mix. And how I was going to handle the different demands they would surely have at the same time so this moment was making me feel really bad about everything.

And every different challenge of parenthood brings on a new level of "Am I good enough to handle this?", "Did I do the right thing?" "Am I giving enough to them." but this is an important message to keep forefront. Forgive yourself.

1 Motherhood Is A Whole New Dimension

"I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced."

-Gwyneth Paltrow mom to Apple and Moses

Twas the night and all through the house not a creature was stirring. And all you can hear was is the whirring of the dishwasher. When visions of the next day's to-do list and grocery list dance in your head. That is often the moment for me when it's way past 11 that I can finally settle and I'm by myself and have quiet.

Those are the moments that I can look around and truly appreciate this life for what it is and what it gives. It's like at night my Grinch heart swells well past my Mom belly and I have all of these loving feelings towards my kids. Most nights they're curled up against me and I take their soft and warm chunky baby hand and place it on my cheek.

It's in those moments that the struggles of my day usually slip away. And if they aren't in bed with I get this intense desire to want to go wake them up. But I slap myself silly until I'm right again.

Source: Scientific American