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The slower-paced lifestyle on the West Coast took some getting used to for Jennifer Connelly and her two children Kai, 12, and Stellan, 6. Temporarily relocated from their home in Brooklyn, the family-of-four — which includes Jennifer’s husband actor Paul Bettany — eventually “settled in” and their new digs “became great,” she said during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “We found some things to become involved in,” she notes.
“For my kids it was swimming. My younger son couldn’t swim at all when we got here, and now he’s doing cannonballs into the pool, and flips. My older son has perfected his dive.”
Jennifer herself has taken up mixed martial arts, joking that “inside this sort of mild-mannered woman beats the heart of a ruthless ninja.” Her newfound toughness is lost on the boys, however. “My children are not scared of me that I’ve noticed so far, no,” she concedes. “I don’t think I’m particularly strict.”
Case in point? While Jennifer has a no-tolerance policy for “rudeness,” her stance on cursing is considerably more relaxed! “I won’t let my kids say, ‘You’re a f–king a–hole’ because that would be rude, that’s directed towards someone else,” she said during a humorous exchange with hostJimmy Kimmel, who then asked whether the boys would be allowed to say such a thing to a mirror. Answering in the negative, Jennifer explained, “Again, that’s rude. I wouldn’t want them to speak to themselves like that.”
“I make it very clear that this is [something that is] surprising to other people. Don’t go to school and say ‘Teacher, pass me a f–king pencil.’ You don’t say that. You say, ‘May I please have a pencil?’”
While some parents would undoubtedly be shocked by the language Kai and Stellan are permitted to use at home, Jennifer says that there are bigger battles to be waged when it comes to raising kids. She opines,
“Here’s the thing…I see parents letting their kids be — frankly — rude. Frankly, brats. And you think, ‘That kid is really a brat,’ and you say, ‘S–t, that kid is a brat,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh, you can’t curse in front of my child!’ People get very uptight about that sort of thing, but they don’t mind if their children are impolite.”
Jennifer added, “I believe in discipline, but other things that people are uptight about, I’m not uptight about.”
Her new movie 9 is now showing nationwide.
Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
– Missy
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