Many moms struggle to say no, but not Kate Hudson. In fact, the actress admits she used to be a pushover before her five-year-old son Ryder Robinson came along!

“I had to learn to say ‘no.’ That came very easily once I became a mother. ‘Can I have candy?’ ‘No.’”

Kate says she’s a strict mom, following in the footsteps of her own famous parents Goldie Hawn and Goldie’s partner Kurt Russell.

“My parents were very tough and there’s something to be said for that. My parents were really hard on me and yet they are my favorite people in the world and we have the greatest relationship. That’s how I’d like to raise my child. You love them but you have to put your foot down.”

It sounds smart to me!

Kate Hudson is busily promoting her new film Bride Wars, but she’s already thinking of her next project: some time off!

“I’m ready to have a good, solid six months with my son [five-year-old Ryder Robinson] … I just want to do nothing for a little while,” she admitted to The Scotsman.

Exactly where they’ll spend their downtime remains to be seen. Kate was raised in Los Angeles, but says she feels “way more at home in New York.” However she feels that raising a Big Apple baby is much harder than it is on the West Coast.

“Los Angeles is actually nice with children because they can enjoy the outdoors more. Ryder can do activities all year round in California, such as soccer in the winter. On the East Coast it’s harder, unless your kids are into ice hockey.”

I’m sure no matter where they go, or what they do, Kate and Ryder will have an awesome vacation!

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The marriage may not have lasted, but Kate Hudson has no regrets about her whirlwind romance with Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson. After all, it gave her five-year-old son Ryder!

In a recent interview with The Times Online Kate says parenthood was on their mind right from the start.

“When I met Chris it was like nothing else; I had no question that I was going to have a kid with him,” she explained. “Every rule went out the window.

“I just had no question about him, and I still don’t. He’s a permanent fixture in my life, but I believe our love changed its form, it shifted…I think we were meant to have a child, and we have this amazing little boy together and therefore we’ll be together our entire lives.”

It might have happened five years ago, but Kate says the memories of her labor and emergency c-section have made her view life and death very differently.

“I definitely started thinking about it because I just experienced birth,” she says. “I experienced the closest thing to death that I am going to experience until I die.”

This experience has given the actress a new perspective on life, although she has to remind herself of this every now and then!

“I forget all the time and I get wrapped up in stuff, especially when things get a little spread out, like you’re trying to be the best mom you can be, trying to have a career, trying to be a friend, trying to be a girlfriend. You have to go back to that place, wait a minute, bring yourself back, it doesn’t matter, we’re all going to die. And one day all this will be gone and what does it mean?”

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Like most single mommies, Kate Hudson plans her day around the activities of her son Ryder Russell Robinson.

Their day starts with a great big hug, which makes saying goodbye a little more difficult!

“When he climbs into bed with me, wraps his arms around me and says, ‘Mommy, the sun’s up! It’s a beautiful morning!’ I’m sorry, do I really want to go to work then?” joked Kate.

Of course she doesn’t! But Ryder has school, a time Kate takes advantage of!

“My whole schedule revolves around the time he’s home before and after school; then from 9-3, I am running around L.A. doing a million things,” she says.

She might be a superstar, but Kate’s life sounds refreshingly normal!

Ryder Russell Robinson is just four years old, but he’s already an expert on skis!

His mom Kate Hudson told People that she dropped her preschooler off for a lesson last year. The Hollywood star flew into a mad panic when he wasn’t on the bunny hill when she returned!

“I started panicking a little bit because I couldn’t see him anywhere, and the [instructor] came over and said, ‘Oh, actually, he’s up on the mountain.’ I’m standing there in my skis and I’m looking up and all of a sudden I see this little kid in camouflage and I’m like, ‘No!’” Kate remembers. “He is just zooming down the mountain and I started to cry.”

But they were definitely happy tears, as Kate embraced her son’s new independence.

“I grew up skiing, and then you see your kids ski and there’s a freedom in it, a freedom in that that you recognize in them,” the actress explained. “A confidence that kids start to get when they do things like that. It was a big little moment.”
But Kate isn’t prepared to let go of the reins completely just yet.

“Now he’s going to be a terror. So the helmet is on. I’m going to put … those rubber things on the bottom of his skis so that he doesn’t go too fast!”

Kate Hudson and her son Ryder didn’t look very happy at all when photographed in New York yesterday. If I were heading out for lunch in the Big Apple I’d be all smiles! Lighten up guys!

Kate Hudson kept hold of her son Ryder’s hands as they walked in the West Village yesterday. This shapeless gray dress does nothing for Kate, but Ryder’s looking as cute as ever!

Kate Hudson and son Ryder were in a rush to get to JFK airport home on Wednesday. Kate is usually so well put together, but it looks like she didn’t even have time to dry her hair! The stress doesn’t seem to have affected Ryder anyway. Maybe it’s his rock star pedigree, but he looks cool as a cucumber.

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Kate Hudson has told the UK’s Sunday Times she’d love to fall in love again, but being a single mom makes it difficult!

“I need to find that 18-year-old in me again, who was way more adventurous when it came to kissing boys,” she laughed. “I would love nothing more than to have a good, honest make out sesh, but I find it really hard because I’m a mom.”

She also admitted that no man will ever compete with her four-year-old son Ryder. And that’s exactly how it should be!

“Any guy I ever meet is always going to come second to my son,” she added. “And you get to weed out the boys from the men. You definitely know which ones are the boys.

“I’m a mom and that’s my first priority,” said Hudson. “I can’t wait to have more. I’m at that place when I’m ready to have another one and Chris and I are not together. I’m like, ‘Oh no! Uh-oh! I’m ready.’ ”

So will the next daddy by Owen Wilson? Kate Hudson has had an on-again off-again relationship with the Wedding Crasher’s star since splitting with Ryder’s father Chris Robinson in 2006.

Famous parents including Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Tobey Maguire, Brooke Shields, and Tom Hanks have contributed essays to a new parenting book.

In Healthy Child Healthy World by Christopher Gavigan, these famous moms and dads give their thoughts on raising healthy kids. It’s a timely book considering how many children suffer from obesity and related disorders

You can grab a copy of the book for $25.95 from April 17.

It features some of the most grounded stars so it’s bound to contain some great advice.

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