by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting

Sandra Bullock may have become a mom and grown her family through adoption, but she isn't mincing words about what to call her kids these days.
Opening up about her son Lou and daughter Laila's personalities, the actress recently told InStyle, "Lou is supersensitive. I call him my 78-year-old son. He's like Shecky Greene, a Jewish Catskills comic. He's wise and kind. I saw that when they handed him to me. There was a spiritual bigness to him. I was like, 'I hope I don't eff that up.'
"And Laila is just unafraid. She's a fighter, and that's the reason she's here today. She fought to keep her spirit intact. Oh my god, what she is going to accomplish. She's going to bring some real change." It sounds like Laila will be taking after her famous mother, because Sandra Bullock is taking a stance on the language we ought to use surrounding adoption.

When asked if things are getting any better for all of the children in foster care who need homes the 53-year-old replied:
"Not quickly enough. Look: I'm all for Republican, Democrat, whatever, but don't talk to me about what I can or can't do with my body until you've taken care of every child who doesn't have a home or is neglected or abused. It makes me teary-eyed [wells up]. Let's all just refer to these kids as 'our kids.' Don't say 'my adopted child.' No one calls their kid their 'IVF child' or their 'oh, sh-t, I went to a bar and got knocked-up child.' Let just say, 'our...