Eva Mendes. Donato Sardella/Getty Images for New York & Company. Posting two pictures of herself wearing an oversized pair of purple sunglasses and a large tote bag, the mom of two wrote, "Mami Life.

Many of us can’t remember our childhood. But one mom has revealed that she actually doesn’t remember her own kid’s childhoods, or rather — them as young children.

I started to think of childhood not only as a problem of social equality, but also as a struggle for freedom. Still, if my questions proved my existence, maybe those adults got something right.