Jada Pinkett Smith's Golden Rules of Parenting
In the November issue of Cookie magazine, Jada Pinkett Smith opens up about total from her marriage to Will Smith to raising their kids cool. I mainly according to her "Golden Rules of Parenting." They accommodate the following:
1. Eat as a extraction. "There’s flexibility about when they eat breakfast and lunch, but dinner cool is sacred."
2. Enlist support. "I’m lucky to have a lot of human race in my macrocosm who helping hand me. My mother travels with me all the spell, and when I travel and the kids aren’t with me, she stays with them."
3. Drink water. "I apprise them, 'You have one bottles of water a day, thereupon drink what you craving. I’m always double, 'Listen, we’ve got to keep our bodies strong — we got too lots stuff to do!'"
4. Respect their boundaries. "Staying out of kids' space can teach them to be responsible for their own decisions and mistakes. Is it their room, or are they borrowing the space while they’re living in your co-op? If it's theirs, later they should be able to do whatever they thirst with it. If it's their clothes, they have the right to do whatever they wish with those clothes. We have to give them some freedom to be who they are."
5. Choose your battles. "Who is it going to hurt, really, if she has orange balloon pants on the red carpet? I try to stay outside my ego and what I wish and to respect them as I imagine them to respect me."
6. Expose and educate. "We go to church as a birth on Sunday, but we study globe religion mid the week as well. We study excerpts from the Bible, from Hindu texts, Kabbalah, Judaism..."
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