Madonna with her children, Lourdes, Rocco and DavidMadonna has revealed that despite just adopting a new baby boy, she finds it hard to juggle her family with her busy career - and her children let her know they’re not happy with her absence.

She told Dateline: Being married and having kids is not exactly simple no matter who you are. In fact, trying to make those things work is quite a challenge. Sometimes you drop the ball.”

When asked when she last “dropped the ball”, she replied: “When I was on tour, my focus is you know doing my show every night. And on my days off, they’re not really days off.”

“I have to be mom and and wife and there are times when I should have, you know, hung out with my kids, and I just said, “No, I need a massage. I’m gonna do that instead. You know? And I’m gonna be selfish.”

She added her older children, ten year old Lourdes and six year old Rocco, complain about her busy mum: “[With Lourdes] it was just, ‘Ah! I can’t wait till this is over with and we can have you back’.”

“And you know, my son would say, ‘How much longer is this gonna go on for? I mean, when are you gonna just be home?”

But she has no plans to give up her career just yet: “I obviously I have things I want to say and accomplish… and I don’t…”

“Just staying home and looking after my children and being a mother and a wife is not what I want. I want more.

“If you want to affect change in the world, you do have to have a platform to stand on. And in order to have a platform to stand on, you have to keep doing your job. So, I guess that’s why I’m juggling still.”