Tammin Sursok has been acting since she was a teenager.

At 16, she landed the role of Dani Sutherland onHome and Awayin her first-ever acting audition. And in the years since, she's played memorable characters including Colleen Carlton onThe Young and the Restlessand Jenna Marshall inPretty Little Liars.

These days, Sursok's most important role is being a mum to her two daughters, seven-year-old Phoenix and two-year-old Lennon.

This week, the mother-of-two and global ambassador for Edible Beauty, spoke toMamamiaabout parenting during a global pandemic, taking care of her kids while her husband battled coronavirus, and whether her family will return to Australia.

Here's what she had to say.

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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sursok, her husband, Sean McEwen, and their two girls, moved from Los Angeles, California, to Austin, Texas. Their eldest, Phoenix, is yet to return to school.

"Honestly, it’s been challenging but we are trying to make the most of it," Sursok toldMamamia. "Our oldest, Phoenix, has been remote-schooled for a year and two months."

"In the beginning, it was a novelty but now learning on screens has become frustrating for us all," she said.

"We are focusing on the positive, having not spent one day apart, which has been mostly wonderful."

Since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, the United States has been slowly working towards normality. However, as Sursok explained, things aren't there just yet.

"The US has somewhat opened up but life is definitely not back to normal yet," she said.

But that comes with some advantages.

"We have some work coming up and because the kids are remote-schooled, we are able to base ourselves anywhere right now," she shared.

Before things go back to normal, Sursok is making the most of the time she has at home with her girls.

"[There's] lots of making pizza, cookies, dance parties, movie nights and every Friday we put on Edible Beauty sleep masks and have a pampered 'girl’s night'," she shared.

She also hopes to teach them a thing or two.

"I hope to teach my girls about resilience," she said. "As someone who has been in the entertainment field for most of my life, rejection is part of the job. I’ve learned how to navigate the ups and downs and how to use rejection as a motivator to work harder."

"I also hope to teach them self-love. In a world that puts so much pressure on young girls, I want to give them tools in how to fully love themselves wholly and completely," she added.

In January, Sursok