Reese Witherspoon: I Want My Kids Teased and Bullied

Reese Witherspoon strolls along Santa Monica Blvd. with the nanny, her daughter Ava, 8, and son Deacon, 4, in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Reese, 31, was interviewed on Good Morning America earlier this morning to chat up her new film, Penelope. The film is about a girl named Penelope, who ends up with a pig’s nose and ears as the result of a family curse. Reese related herself and her kids to pig-nosed Penelope:

“We all sort of deal with that in our own childhood or raising children. I wouldn’t want my kids to miss out on any of that teasing and bullying. It makes you who you are–when you don’t make the soccer team and you can’t… The thing that drives me crazy today is everyone wins the award. Everyone wins an MVP. No. They’re not! I distinctly recall the two weeks of crying because I didn’t make the volleyball team. It made me interesting.

And what if Reese’s kids don’t make the soccer team one day?

“You know what?” Reese said. “You deal with. Hopefully, it helps kids figure out who they are. But it is tough as a parent. But that’s part of being a parent!”

Penelope opens on Friday, Feb. 29. That’s right, leap year day! It’s the first film to open on leap year day since 1980!

The video of Reese on MGA should be soon be posted on Go.com.

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She wants her kids to be strong.She has a solid outlook and a good support network. Her parents and extended family are real close. And she has Jake. (sigh!)

she was spoonfed.

She needs to be careful about what she says and how she says it. There’s a difference between playful teasing because you suck at a sport and actual bullying which destroys lives. bullying makes your life hell and leads to many kids committing suicide.

So STFU Miss Witherspoon.

she seems like a wonderful mother, a true inspiration!

THAT’S NOT A NANNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT’S REESE’S MOTHER, BETTY!!!

I agree with pengy #7 completely. Don’t take things out of context.

It is time for this women to be retired. Her films give lot of loss for Hollywood studios. She has lot of money and if she would like a little privacity with her children and her boy toy it is better stay at home and enjoy the money whose she had won. Nobody like to see her films out of USA . In Europe there are lot of blonde l woman whose walk on street. The european man needn’t go to the cinema to see a ordinary person. There are profissionals actresses in Hollywood whose are better them she.
I would like to be free when I will take a airplane in Germany of escrement or vaginal secretions with lot of sexuals illness in the chair I will sit. If this prostitute would like to practice public sex with the ***** men Jake Gyllenhaal she can make in haus of her mother or Naomi Foner or on streets like every street prostitute.

She seems like such a B itch.

Reese wants her kids to be like any other - and so they should be. She is right on in my opinion.

poorbabies @ 02/11/2008 at 6:06 pm

She sounds SO MEAN!

Herr children won’t be like any other because their parents house is a prostitution house. They will learn at home how to use the people to have advantages for themselves. They will learn how to use sex in work to become better position. Look at the son or daughter of director or actors or actresses of Hollywood. They can’t do nothing. They don’t have any kind of profission. Look Jake Gyllenhaal. He is a ignorant without background… We saw what was happened with Heath Ledger and I wait what will happening with him and other promiscuous element of this brothel in USA. I don’t know what this women make with this bisexual. He is wearing the same jeans trousers and the same t-shirt of another men. And somebody whose worked in Reuters told in a blog in computer that Jake Gyllenhaal had a homosexual lover whose worked there. This person told the name of this men too. I will wait what will happened with these people in future. I can see a good future for none of them!!!

Reese sounds like she doesn’t understand that unrelenting, long term, vicious teasing and bullying can really damage a young child. However, a little adversity can certainly teach a child that life is not always fair, easy or fun. There are degrees of that lesson, though, and too much is not beneficial to anyone. A wise parent knows where to draw the line for their kids and not let things get out of hand.

If she means that her kids would be better off not having everything handed to them because their parents are actors, then of course. A doctor’s kid still needs to provide insurance to have an operation. Extend that to anything you like.
But either the way she said it or the way it was reported and spun makes her sound like suffering “should not be missed out” by any child. That’s a bad way to look at it and phrase it. Too much spoiling and privilege without hard work should not be given to kids or anyone. But “missing” out on suffering and teasing, that’s not the right way to put it. No mother should WISH anything but happiness on her children. Suffering alone does not build character, it’s how you deal with it that matters.

She’s not “preparing” her kids for anything. She is wishing that her kids go through the same kind of bullying, teasing that she was used to as a child. Well, easy for her to say, right? Look how everything turned out for her, not to say there isn’t tabloid gossip and rumors in her life, but her success tends to overshadow that. I can’t understand parents who adore their kids to death such that they never learn to work hard and achieve things of their own merit, but I also don’t understand parents who want the same cycle of failure and reject to repeat for their kids. There is a middle ground and a middle path, why doesn’t she just encourage her kids to be the best they can in life? No need for this kind of pressure. MVP means nothing at a kiddie level, sorry.

Oh, come on! Stop taking it out of context, people. Even though it does sound like she’s okay with her kids getting teased and bullied, I think she might’ve used the wrong words. I think she’s trying to say that she doesn’t want her kids to be coddled and privileged, but would rather have them prepared and able to tackle difficult circumstances. No matter how much you try to protect your kids, they’ll never escape hardships.

I’m pleasantly surprised. I never hear any public figure speak so candidly of what life is truly like. You don’t always get into your first-choice college, you’re probably not going to get a Jaguar for your 16th birthday, and not everyone is going to like you. People here are saying that she’s cold and doesn’t really care about her kids. Well, if she didn’t care, she’d hire a tutor and keep her kids comfy all the time so they wouldn’t complain and bother her. But, seeing as how she wants her kids to be able to confront life’s obstacles, she seems to be an involved, responsible parent who actually cares about how her kids will turn out.

Kudos to you, Reese! It’s refreshing that some people can see beyond the self-esteem propaganda that’s been shoved down our throats since the 80s.

Hey if you’re rich and make 20 million a movie, you’ll get a lot of support from people whatever you say. Money talks and money attracts and money rules in Hollyweird. She’s got the money and as a result she’s Queen of Hollywood who can not say or do anything wrong Anyway you will probably never see her in rehab. Not the type.

SofiaRocket @ 02/12/2008 at 2:43 am

I guess Reese knows best what’s good for HER kids, but different children need different treatment. What makes one child stronger, may crush another.

And perhaps the best thing she could to to her children was to keep her husband=their dad…

DIDI….you’re the biggest fcukin’ schoolyard bully of them all.

You are a nasty, vicious piece of work and your comments on all the threads on Just Jared are always so callous, cruel, spiteful, vindictive, negative, vile and mean.

You are one of these bullies who hides behind your computor to spew your own special brand of hate.
The anonymity of the internet is the perfect vehicle for you to do this, isn’t it you gutless wonder.

Stupid *****!

Reese is a terrible parent!

NO WONDER AVA NEVER SMILES AROUND HER!

PENELOPE is the CRAPPIEST film I have ever seen !!!

If Penelope doesn’t make any money and she makes more movies that bomb, pretty soon she won’t have so much money. Then you will probably not see Jake with her any more. LOL.

The boy looks okay but the girl doesn’t look all that pretty. My God, what if she grows up fugly? How could Reese deal with that? A fugly daughter. Eeeeeeeeek! Call in the face lifters quick!

anastasia @ 02/12/2008 at 7:40 am

Her son is gorgoeus cos he looks like his daddy.
Her daughter is ugly and unfortunate looking cos she looks like her mommy.

Reese is quite sensible, even if she didn’t phrase what she said in the best way. Teasing and bullying is a fact of life - havent you read the Berenstain Bears?? When you learn to stand up to the teasing and bullying, it stops. Some life skills are better learnt young when there’s still mum and dad to support you and guide you.

Who cares… she is dull and I can’t see the fascination with her. But to change the subject, can she get a BIGGER bag. She looks like a granny, didn’t the fashion mags say you need to be at least 5′8 to get away with a bag that big.

fashion mags say you need to be at least 5′8 to get away with a bag that big.

She probably wants it so she can crawl into it if the papas get too pushy.

N - you are the one with no future because you are an ignorant fool.

she seems seperated from her kids…

Ask her please if she has seen Jakeypoo Gyllenhaal. As far as I know they were last seen together and now he seems to have disappeared. Does she have any info about his whereabouts?

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