Eva Mendes recently appeared in the new episode of Dr. Shefali’s “Parenting & You” podcast. The star got candid about how she feels about yelling at her kids. The actor shares two daughters with her longtime partner, Ryan Gosling. During the new podcast interview, Mendes opened up about parenting traps, dealing with mom guilt, and more.
Eva Mendes gets emotional as she opens up about her struggle with ‘yelling’ and ‘rushing’
On the new episode of the “Parenting & You” podcast, Eva Mendes recalled her difficult and “very chaotic” household when she was little. The 50-year-old got candid about how that affected her own parenting style. Dr. Shefali asked Mendes what pattern is the hardest for her to break as a mother. After replying that “there’s been a few,” the mom of two said, “I think that one of the hardest patterns for me is yelling.”
Mendes explained, “Because I don’t yell when they need me, quote-unquote, like, or I would, you know, I’ve never yelled like, ‘Shut up’ or anything.” She continued, “It’s not, in my mind, you know, it’s not like a mean yell. But it doesn’t matter. I yell.” Mendes then shared she finds the yelling “so cultural.” She said, “It’s like, okay, I’m having a really hard time getting through and not yelling.” Mendes added that the “rushing and yelling” are the hardest things for her.
Further in the interview, Eva Mendes also opened up about not wanting to raise her kids by “fear.” The actor shared that although her mother was loving, “It was a definite, like, raising us by fear.” Mendes stated she doesn’t want to do the same when it comes to her parenting style. “I really don’t want to raise by fear,” Mendes said as she got emotional and started tearing up. “It’s so not fair to the kids.”
Mendes further shared how her daughters often get praised for being “respectful and sweet.” However, as a mother who follows conscious parenting, she hopes she is not “unknowingly putting some kind of pressure on them through fear.” Mendes said, “I hope that they’re just mimicking what they see.”
