Reese Witherspoon is opening up about the difficult conversations she had with her children.
He Legally Blonde Icon is mother to Ava and Deacon, whom she shares with ex Ryan Phillippe, and Tennessee, whom she shares with ex Jim Toth.
During a recent podcast appearance, she spoke candidly about why it was important to let your children fail at some things. Reese even revealed a moment where she talked to her Ava about not being good at something.
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“I see this a lot with parents. “I don’t know when we stopped letting our kids fail,” Reese reflected. Good interior with Dr. Becky podcast, via BuzzFeed News.
He went on to say, “I think learning from failure is actually a valuable tool that can’t be taken away from children. “You rob them if you don’t let them sit in the discomfort of the experience.”
For example, Reese referenced Ava’s attempts to become a basketball player, which did not go as planned.
“She couldn’t make layups, she just couldn’t coordinate her dribbling; she just didn’t like it,” the actress recalled. After a particularly bad game, Reese broached the topic with Ava.
“I said, ‘You know what? Maybe you’re not good at basketball,’” she revealed. “She was like, ‘What! How can you tell me I’m not good at something?’ I thought, ‘Actually, it’s really important to learn what you’re not good at.’”
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