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Will Smith’s Guide to Great Parenting
Florence • Feb 21, 2021
Will & Jada's Guide to Parenting
Willard Carroll Smith Jr. is an American actor, rapper, and film producer and a successful one. He has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards and won four Grammy Awards. From moving from television where he gave us the Fresh Prince of Bel-air to movies where it was blockbuster after blockbusters such as Gemini Man, Men in Black, Pursuit of Happiness, and so many others.
Still married to Jada Pinkett 24 years after and being a parent of 3 kids. Smith is not only a celebrity actor but also a family man that cares about his personal life and on so many occasions and interviews always talked about his parenting challenges and ways he goes about raising his children. Below are some of his parenting hints:
Treat Them as Equals: In May 2013, Will sat down for an interview with Haute Living in which he revealed that he treats his children as he would any other adult.
"I think that, specifically in African American households, the idea coming out of slavery, there's a concept of your children being property and that was a major part that Jada and I released with our kids," he said. "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 continued, "We tell our kids, 'You don't have a room, that's our room and we are letting you borrow it.' So the same way you would say to an adult if you let them use your car, you say, 'Yo man, clean my car! Don't drive around all filthy like that!' And it's perfectly reasonable for you to want an adult to clean your car, so we feel it's perfectly reasonable to ask our kids to clean the rooms that we are letting them use."
Don't Punish Them: "We don't do punishment. The way that we deal with our kids is, they are responsible for their lives," Will explained in an interview in 2013. "Our concept is, as young as possible, give them as much control over their lives as possible and the concept of punishment, has a little too much of a negative quality. “He continued, "I tell them you can do anything you want as long as you tell me why that was the right thing to do for your life."
Encourage Freedom of Expression: Jaden's gender-bending style came as a shock to most and had people talking about it for some time. In an interview, Smith after joking that this parenting technique may have "been a mistake," Will explained (Via Complex), "Jaden is 100 percent fearless, he will do anything. As a parent it's scary, it's terrifying, but he is completely willing to live and die by his artistic decisions and he doesn't concern himself with what people think."
Smith also said they give Willow the same freedom.
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