Actor Will Smith’s son Jaden wants freedom from his parents on his birthday.
Jaden, who will turn 15 in July, might be doing films with his father but he wants his own place, reports thesun.co.uk. Will, 44, reveals, “He says, ‘Dad, I want to be emancipated’. I know if we do this, he can be an emancipated minor, because he really wants to have his own place, like ooh.”
“That’s the backlash. On the other side, if kids just want to have command of their lives, I understand,” adds Will. The father and son duo will be in upcoming sci-fi film After Earth.
Hollywood stars Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have two children — Jaden, 14, and 12-year-old Willow. Following in their parents’ footsteps, Jaden is an actor like his father and Willow is a singer like his mother.
The father and son have a close bond with each other and have also worked together on several occasions. In their new movie After Earth, Jaden’s character Kitai Raige has to prove he is as tough as his legendary father Cypher. “It’s very similar for Jaden and me — your father’s the biggest movie star in the world, and you’re struggling for your little piece of dignity in this extreme shadow,” he explained.
Earlier in an interview, Will said he and his wife don’t believe in punishing their kids. “We don’t do punishment. The way we deal with our kids is: they are responsible for their lives. Our concept is, as young as possible, give them as much control over their lives as possible. The concept of punishment in our experience has been a little too much of a negative quality.”
“We generally don’t believe in punishment. From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, and all he has to do is be able to explain to us why whatever he did, was the right thing for his life,” Will explained.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 14th, 2013.
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