Kate Hudson is sharing the one piece of advice she thinks “all moms” should follow.
“Let your kids go [as they get older],” the actress, 46, said in part while appearing as a guest on Monday’s episode of the “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce” podcast.
“Let them f–king go. Don’t hold on, don’t expect anything of them.”
The mom of three condemned “the expectation” some parents have to “be there” for their children as they age.
“When they start getting older, it’s like, ‘no,’” Hudson continued. “You’ll never hold onto them. And the second you hold on too tight, it’s going to drive them nuts. They’re going to run. I really think that.”
Kelce, who shares four daughters under the age of five with her NFL star husband, Jason, agreed, noting how kids “almost push back harder” when parents try to do too much as they grow up.
“Let them go and enjoy their life. Let them be for a bit,” Hudson advised.
“What you realize is, you might go a week or and they’re not going to call you. But when they do, and they need you…”
“You’re still mom,” Kelce, 33, interjected.
Hudson admitted that she now calls her own famous mom, actress Goldie Hawn, “maybe even twice a day” to chat.
The “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” star shares son Ryder, 21, with ex-husband Chris Robinson, son Bingham, 13, with ex Matt Bellamy and daughter Rani Rose, 6, with fiancé Danny Fujikawa.
In a separate interview that aired on Kelce’s podcast in March, Hudson confessed that she’s not always perfect when raising her two sons and daughter.
“I became combative with my 13-year-old … where is that gonna go?” she said during the March 6 episode of “Not Gonna Lie.”
“But it happens all the time as a parent. When you walk away from it, you can recognize where you might’ve created more of a problem than you did a lesson.”
The Fabletics founder noted that taking accountability and apologizing goes a long way.
“The importance of being able to tell your kids that you could do better, I could’ve handled that situation better, actually models much more for them than being stubborn and saying, ‘No, I can’t admit that I was wrong.’”
That, she said, has been her “biggest lesson” as a “veteran mom.”
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