Ryan Reynolds opened up about the way he and actress Blake Lively parented their children, and how his way of dealing with emotions evolved over time.
this Deadpool and Wolverine The 47-year-old star was speaking at HubSpot’s INBOUND technology conference in Boston, where he revealed how the workshop he attended changed his entire life, especially the way he approaches parenthood.
“I took a seminar on conflict resolution and it changed my whole life,” he said. “I just don’t know how to deal with my feelings. Because I [had a] The scarcity mentality of youth. I don’t know how to project in your brain that thing that makes you always win or be right.
“Things I like [conflict resolution]I know it’s not very fancy, but what I love about it is that you can meet someone where they are, and you don’t have to be right or wrong,” Reynolds added. “You can disagree and still stay in touch.
He compared his own mindset growing up to that of his children, noting that his children wouldn’t have such a difficult time processing their feelings.
“I have four kids and so far, none of them seem to have this [scarcity mindset]partly because they were born on ‘easy streets,'” he said.
“Parents today are so different. We are so soft,” he continued. “I’m not going to yell. I grew up with this – it’s crazy, this was a makeshift militia.”
Reynolds went on to explain how things have gotten better since he was a kid.
“Now, I can look at all my parenting resources and remind myself how to be completely compassionate,” he admits.
Back in 2022, he joked that his three daughters, Betty, Ines and James, were so “wild” that he sometimes thought they had “rabies.”
“I’m like any parent. I have outbursts,” he said. “It’s not what you do in the moment that’s interesting, it’s what you do afterward.”
He credits Lively with shaping him into the father he is today.
“Blake, full disclosure, really showed me how to do it all,” he told David Letterman on the Netflix show My next guest needs no introduction.
When asked if Lively had left him alone with the kids while visiting family, Reynolds joked: “First of all, I would never let her visit family. No, yeah, that’s illegal. That’s kidnapping. .
