Sheryl Crow Is One Strict Rocker Mama!

Rocker Sheryl Crow is featured on the cover of Prevention magazine's May 2011 issue.  In the interview she opens up about being a single mom to boys and taking pride in being a strict mom. 

Here's the highlights:

On her parenting style: 
“I’m strict.  They have to understand that somebody’s in charge and sometimes the answer is no. It’s about being consistent.”

On saying no to sons Wyatt, 4, and Levi, 1:
“I really think that you do them a disservice when they get out into the world and they realize they’re not entitled to have everything. I think we’ve gotten to that place where parenting has been equated with making a child happy.”

On being a single mom to two boys:

“I never thought I’d be raising a boy by myself. Now that I’m three and a half years in and I see Wyatt going into a little testosterone phase, I’m like, ‘Whoa!’ But he has great role models. He sees his two uncles and his granddad often.”

Source: Prevention

Sheryl Crow Opens State of the Art Breast Cancer Center

Breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow is stepping up to help fight breast cancer in the Los Angeles area.

Today is grand opening of the Sheryl Crow Imaging Center, which features state-of-the-art digital screening and diagnostic technologies for the detection of breast cancer.  The new facility is an expansion of the Pink Lotus Breast Center, the country's first complex dedicated exclusively to the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Crow herself benefited from the early detection of her breast cancer during a routine mammogram in 2006.

"Joining forces with the Pink Lotus Breast Center has provided me with a wonderful platform to create awareness and encourage the millions of American women over 40 to get their annual mammogram," Crow says in a statement.

"Detecting breast cancer early is a woman's best chance at survival, and digital full-field mammography is the gold standard of early detection."

Crow has two adopted sons: Wyatt, 3, and Levi, nearly 4 months.