Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively want 4 kids to have ‘normal’ childhoods

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively They are both Hollywood A-listers, but they are committed to giving their children a regular life.
In an interview with Hollywood Reporter Published on Friday, December 13, the Deadpool The actor opened up about his family.

Reynolds and Lively share four children together: daughters James, 9, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5, as well as a son, Olin, whom they welcomed in early 2023.

“We try to give them as normal a life as possible,” Reynolds told the network.

“I try not to impose on them the difference between their childhood and my childhood or my wife’s,” the actor continued, reflecting on his and Blake’s upbringing and how his perspective on raising children has changed.

“We both grew up very working-class, and I remember when they were very young, I used to say or think, like, ‘God, I never had a gift like that when I was a kid,’ or, ‘I never had the luxury of getting takeout,’ or Whatever,” Reynolds shared.

“Then I realized it wasn’t really their bag of rocks to carry,” he said, adding that his children began to show their values. “They are already very much in touch with gratitude and understand the world enough to have a strong sense of empathy.”

Reynolds explained how his children make him and Lively feel secure in their parenting style.

“These are the things that I would think (will indicate) that we are doing a good job – if our children can empathize with other people and other children,” he said, but admitted that no matter what, his children will grow up with a different childhood than he had.

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“Yeah, it’s different,” he told THR. “When I was a kid, you’d just suck it up, leave the house and come back until sunset, which I just can’t imagine now.”

Reynolds also addressed the recent news that he will be taking a break from filming.

“I’m still working in the sense that I’m writing, whether it’s in a boy band or something else that I can’t talk about yet. I don’t have a problem of ‘scraping hands are the devil’s toys,'” he shared. “If I’m not working, I don’t crave it all the time. Boredom is also a very undervalued asset these days. We as a society simply entertain ourselves to death 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The best ideas I’ve ever had were born from boredom, where it’s allowed For your mind to wander and get into this kind of stasis of being and not doing.”