“I hesitate just because … I try not to expose them to technology. It’s hard to make them super nerds if I don’t let them watch television or movies, or get on an iPhone or an iPad. So right now, I’m making my kids into artistic nature-hippies. We’ll see what happens. At some point, they’ll choose what they want to be...[It's] only challenging as a parent because so many people use that as a babysitter, and they’re like, ‘I just need an hour to clean the dishes – watch this movie or play Angry Birds on my phone.’ It’s actually really bad for their brain development, and I’m trying to breed, like, superheroes. I don’t want them to get fucked-up brains. So I just suck it up, and it’s hard, and one of us is always doing something. We don’t get a lot of rest time, but I know it’s better for them.”
On what she would like for her sons' futures:
“I would love one of them to be a painter or a poet and, like, wear scarves and walk around Paris, like angsty. Then I would like one to be a musician, maybe. Their dad Brian plays jazz drums and is a good musician. So I think one of them is going to have the spark for that.”
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