Demi Moore Reveals Why She Doesn’t Give Daughter Rumer Willis Parenting Advice: ‘They Need to Find Their Own Way’
"If I am asked, I am happy to share my experience, strength and hope," Moore said on the Friday, Sept. 20 episode of 'The Jennifer Hudson Show'
Demi Moore is getting candid about giving daughter Rumer Willis parenting advice.
The actress, 61, who appeared on the Friday, Sept. 20 episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show to promote her new film The Substance, revealed that she gives advice to her daughter, 36, — who is raising her own daughter Louetta, 17 months — with a light hand.
"You know what I have learned? Is that you do not give advice unless you are asked, in general,” Moore told host Jennifer Hudson.
“First of all, she is a wonderful mother and I am so proud of her,” she continued to praise her daughter. “She is really incredible. And if I am asked, I am happy to share my experience, strength and hope. But if I am not, it is better that I just keep my mouth shut.”
The actress went on to explain that each parent has their own way of raising their children, and her parenting may be different from Rumer's, but that didn’t make it wrong.
"As a parent, you have to give your children, I think, the dignity of their own process,” Moore said. “Sometimes they need to find their own way, even if I'm right, and often I am... but it doesn't make her wrong.”
The Ghost actress, who shares her three daughters — Rumer, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30 — with ex-husband Bruce Willis, 69, went on to say that she believed a mother’s duty was to be a “manager” and “step back” and let their children live their own lives.
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“... For me I feel like my job is just to love my children and to give them the room to be who they are,” she said. "Rescuing our children, which is our intuitive instinct, isn't always the best thing. You have to give them the room.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Moore raved about her granddaughter, whom Rumer shares with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas, calling her "magical" and a “a pocket of joy." She also admitted that her granddaughter has helped her spot “generational patterns” in her own family and reflected on how that has impacted her.
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"The great thing is I look at her and I realize that through how I choose to live, how my daughter and her sisters all choose to live, that we actually have a chance to break certain generational patterns. I can already see it within her," she explained.
Rumer recently celebrated Louetta’s milestone first birthday in April and shared a tribute to her daughter the following month on Instagram, saying that the “last year” with her daughter “has been the best year of my life.”
“Lou I have never known a love like yours. You are the most delicious, most beautiful, smartest, funniest, sweetest girl I know," she wrote in the caption.
"I can’t believe you chose me to be your mama oh my goodness. Every day you grow and learn more and you are my greatest teacher and my deepest love," Rumer continued. "You are a gift to everyone you meet and your smile is almost blinding it’s so magical."
The Substance is in theaters now.
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