Soap opera star Alison Sweeney reveals the best parenting advice she ever got, how she gets her kid to eat his veggies, and what she considers the "best invention ever."

As the naughty but lovable young scamp, Sami Brady, on Days of our Lives, Alison Sweeney has spent the past 15 years literally growing up in front of our eyes. Now, the 32-year-old actress has a growing family of her own: She's married to California Highway Patrol officer, Dave Sanov, with whom she has a 3-year-old son Ben, and is currently pregnant with her second, a girl, due in early 2009. On top of it all, Sweeney also hosts the reality series The Biggest Loser, which kick-starts its new season September 16.

Momtourage caught up with the busy mom in New York's bustling Times Square, where Sweeney hosted an auction of celeb-donated jeans for Clothes Off Our Back, which benefits children's charities. While hundreds of pairs of jeans and shirts dangled from giant clotheslines above NYC's honking cabs and gawking tourists, Sweeney revealed how she balances a full plate.

Momtourage: For a busy working mom like you, you've got to have a momtourage. Who are the people you rely on for support as a parent?
Alison Sweeney: Number one would be my husband. It's truly a 50-50 partnership; we are team parents. It makes a huge difference—for us, for our relationship as husband and wife, for Ben. We're lucky that way. Beyond that, it's family and my close friends, who consider visiting Ben and talking to him on the phone as important as talking to me. "Is Ben there? Can I say hi?" Ben knows all Mommy's friends. And he comes to the set of Days with me. All my friends from work know and love him. He has a million "aunts" and "uncles" who have seen him since he was a baby. We're a big family.