Julia Roberts' rules for parenting adult kids: 'It's not eye-rolling'
06.12.2023 - 09:50
/ foxnews.com
Julia Roberts is a private person, but she's sharing a glimpse of how she parents her three children as they enter adulthood. Roberts joined her "Leave the World Behind" co-star, Mahershala Ali, for an interview with "Today," and she revealed she approaches parenting the same way she always has. Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, have 19-year-old twins in college, Hazel and Phinnaeus, and a son, Henry, 16.
"I parent them the same way out of the house that I parented them in the house, which is, 'Are you getting enough sleep? You sound like you're sick. Are you drinking enough tea? Text me when you get home. I can see that you're home safe and sound,'" she said.
"And I have immense amount of appreciation for both of my older kids because they still allow me to be the same mom to them, and it's not eye-rolling.
There's a huge amount of understanding." Ali asked, "Is it a different discomfort, you leaving and traveling for work and all that? Compared to them leaving and going to college?" "Yeah. And it's funny too, right now me being away," Roberts replied. "And so Henry and Danny are home, and then I'm in another time zone, and then Phinn is somewhere and Hazel is somewhere, and we were all on a FaceTime the other day — together, all of us.
"And it was so fun. I might have had a towel on my wet head. We were all so happy to be together that way that we still are so deeply in love." Danny and Julia first met working on "The Mexican" in 2000.
The pair tied the knot in 2002 and welcomed their twins in 2004 and Henry in 2006.
"He's just really our anchor and our person," Roberts said of Moder during the "Today" interview. "And in the most beautiful way, the captain of our ship, you know, truly. For me, understanding how
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