"They just think we're Mama and Papa, who say no to them. If you ask my boys what we do for a living, they'll tell you we talk, because they can't even comprehend it. That's more than okay with Song, considering she seems committed to raising her kids as normally and off-camera as possible."
"My kids will never understand what it's like to wait a whole week or even a whole day for a single episode. If they want something, it's on demand or they can find it on YouTube. They have instant access to everything, so one of the things that we work hardest on as parents is teaching them patience."
"One thing we have been doing to work on patience is playing a lot of card games. My oldest is four now and he's been playing a lot of Go Fish. He's been doing memory games. He loves Uno, Slap Jack, Old Maid, and Crazy Eights. So I usually bring cards with us wherever we go."
Brenda Song and her partner Macaulay Culkin are raising their children away from the spotlight, focusing on normal parenting rather than their entertainment careers. Their sons view them simply as parents who say no, unaware of their professional accomplishments. Song emphasizes teaching her children patience and balance in a world of instant gratification, contrasting their experience with her own childhood of waiting for weekly episodes and scheduled cartoons. She implements card games like Go Fish, Uno, and memory games to develop patience. Song also encourages reading, inspired by her own childhood love of books, and negotiates bedtime reading limits with her oldest son who shares her passion for literature.
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