Ciara is the first to admit that motherhood keeps her learning every single day. During her appearance on the Angie Martinez IRL podcast, the 40-year-old singer opened up stating that she is a “partial helicopter mom” and fears where her kids get their information.
“I think my kids also keep me young, too. You know, mama’s got to stay tapped in,” she told host Angie Martinez.
Ciara shares her oldest son with ex Future, and two daughters and a son with husband Russell Wilson. She says keeping up with what her kids experience at their ages helps her be a more present parent.
“I want to be, like, aware of what’s happening in their world,” she explained, adding that she often thinks back to her own childhood as a guide. “I want them to feel comfortable with me, but I also want to make sure I’m like, thinking about what I could have done better to serve them better,” she said.
Ciara also admitted she’s a bit of a self-described “partial helicopter” parent. “This world is like bananas, and so I think you’ve got to be locked in even more now because the access is so high,” she said.
She continued, admitting her biggest parenting fear, misinformation reaching her kids before she can. “And my greatest fear is that the world tells my kid information that shapes them when I could be the one telling them.” Ciara says she takes pride in staying ahead of the curve.
“I feel really proud sometimes when you beat the world to telling your kids something,” she shared. “I feel really proud of those moments, like having real conversations with them. So you’re just only empowering them, you’re only armoring them for the world.”
Earlier this year, Ciara told Parents.com she hopes her daughters grow up knowing their limitless worth.
“I want my girls to know that they’re not limited by their gender or the color of their skin,” she said during her interview.
And in an August interview with Vogue, she reflected on how motherhood reshaped her perspective on her career, a shift she’s grateful for. “When I first began, I’m in an industry where it was taboo to have a child. The moment you had a child, you were automatically labeled as older or not focused. So having my babies and being on this journey to go after all that I’m trying to achieve has just been one of the coolest things,” she said.
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