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Drew Barrymore is adding to the bathing conversation while also saying the parenting debate shouldn’t be a big deal.
Barrymore, 46, says she requires daughters Frankie, 7, and Olive, 8½, to take baths daily Monday through Friday, though she’s a “little more relaxed” and lenient on weekends.
“I’m just looking for balance. For me, I’m like, ‘You were at school all day.’ Not in the last two years [because of quarantine], but when they were, I’m like, ‘Bath every night.’ Absolutely,” she tellsET. “On the weekends, it’s like, ‘You’re in the salty ocean. Who cares? You’re fine.’ I guess I’m a five-day-a-weeker with a possible sixth day. Five to six days a week.”
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“These are not necessarily the things I would really flip out on people about right now with everything going on,” Barrymore added on the subject of parents being criticized for bathing routines. “Hey, you know what? Maybe people need a break. If this is the hot debate, I think people just need a break.”
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OnDemi Lovato’s podcast4D With Demi Lovatoin June, Barrymore opened up about how her relationship with her own mother influenced her parenting style today, specifically onsetting boundaries with her kids.
She explained that she and her mother Jaid were friends, not “parent and child” growing up, which forced her to “completely relearn what parent-child dynamic is.”
“I’m having amazing real realizations about my own kids and how little I understood what boundaries were,” said Barrymore at the time. “I didn’t have them growing up and when you’re a parent, you try to compensate with so much love and you’re almost afraid to get into the argument sometimes, you’re just trying to survive the day, so you let things slide and you’re like, ‘Oh, there should have been a boundary in that place probably a while ago but I guess I’m only realizing that now.’ "
source: people.com
