Sarah Jessica Parker Balances Life as a Working Mom

With a new fashion line selling off the shelves and the Sex and the City movie ready to start filming this fall, Sarah Jessica Parker tries to keep motherhood her primary focus.

"James Wilkie is so conscious now of the time we spend together," Parker says in the August issue of Elle of her 4-year-old son with Matthew Broderick. "I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything."

"The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater," says Parker, "and he looked at me and said, 'Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.' "

Parker's second focus is keeping her 10-year-marriage successful and part of the secret to her sucess is keeping their lives out of the media spotlight.

"Actually," she says, "it's not hard to be a private couple. I see some people who actually do it really well, and then I see people who make me skeptical about their deep desire to be so private. It's like, 'Are you sure that's what you really want?' "

One way they keep their lives private is to avoid walking down a red carpet together. "That's where they get you," she says. "Suddenly it becomes, 'Oh, when are you guys going to have another baby?' "

She adds, "We try not to talk about the relationship. It's not that we're not proud; it's just that's the kiss of death."

Source: Elle