Will and Jada have been a Hollywood power couple for roughly 20 years. They have raised their children in the spotlight and know a thing or two about the hardships of parenting.
Over time they have shared most of their best parenting secrets. Some of it has been kind of out there but others have been pretty dead on. Here is a tiny peek into what it would be like living with the Smith family.
Along with Trey, Will's oldest child from a past marriage, the Smiths have raised their children, Jaden and Willow in front of the whole world.
Jaden and Willow march to the beat of their own drums. They are often seen wearing strange styles and making art that is very much not mainstream. Their fierce independence stems from what their parents have taught them about life and creativity.
Jada came to Willow's defense saying, "It grows back" and made sure to point out that her beauty was not dependent upon her hair.
He said: "If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body."
Will has even made jokes about his kids and their various styles. There has been a ton of people talking about the strange "gender-beginning" style that Jaden has taken to.
Smith said: "Jaden is 100 percent fearless, he will do anything. As a parent it's scary, it's really terrifying, but he is completely willing to live and die by his artistic decisions and he doesn't concern himself with what people think."
In an interview, Jada was quoted as saying "I don’t care if Willow wants to own a gas station, she better be a giant doing it. I will never ever ask my children to be lesser than because of a collective."
Will explained: "We respect our children the way we would respect any other person. Things like cleaning up their room. You would never tell a full-grown adult to clean their room, so we don't tell our kids to clean their rooms." He then added that it's perfectly fine to ask them to clean their rooms as they are the ones who use them.
She said: "You have to be in partnership with them, there's no more dictating."
I bet there are a ton of teens out there who would love it if their parents thought the same.
What he means is, everyone stands in a circle and will admit to any wrong doing. Anything said while in the circle isn't held against them outside of the circle. The only stipulation is that if they ever do something and don't confess while in the circle it then they will be in trouble.
Wll makes it clear that they "don't do punishment."
He said: "When they do things — and you know, Jaden, he's done things — you can do anything you want as long as you can explain to me why that was the right thing to do for your life."
She told Jimmy Fallon, "As a father ... if she needs a ride from the mall, you go pick her up, and you don't say a word. You don't ask her anything. Don't talk to her. Don't ask any questions. You wait until she comes to you and wants to talk to you."
She said: "I always tell Will, 'Just say I love you. Go pick her up, make sure she's safe. Leave it to me to ask all the questions.'"
She said: "I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap."
She goes about fostering those feelings by giving Willow "the opportunity to be empowered by having herself first. I don't just sit with Willow and go, 'Hey, this is what Mommy thinks.'"
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