{"id":8387,"date":"2023-11-29T23:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/jennifer-garner-on-her-kids-teaching-her-humility-and-how-teens-are-hard-work-exclusive\/29\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T23:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:50:01","slug":"jennifer-garner-on-her-kids-teaching-her-humility-and-how-teens-are-hard-work-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/jennifer-garner-on-her-kids-teaching-her-humility-and-how-teens-are-hard-work-exclusive\/29\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner on Her Kids Teaching Her &#8216;Humility&#8217; and How Teens Are &#8216;Hard Work&#8217; (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/jennifer-garner\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Garner<\/a><span> is not ashamed to admit the lesson that her three children are teaching her as a mom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Talking with ET&#8217;s Denny Directo from the red carpet of her new Netflix film,<\/span><em><span> Family Switch<\/span><\/em><span>, Garner, 51, says she is currently receiving a lesson on &#8220;humility&#8221; from Violet, 17, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 11 &#8212; whom she shares with ex-husband <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/ben-affleck\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;My kids have taught me so much,&#8221; Garner said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Right now? Humility. They&#8217;re on a real path for teaching me humility,&#8221; the <\/span><em><span>13 Going On 30<\/span><\/em><span> actress said with a laugh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Referencing the plot to her new movie in which Garner&#8217;s character switches places with her teenage daughter and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/ed-helms\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Helms<\/a><span>&#8216; character switches with their young son, ET also asked her if she thinks it would be harder to swap lives with a teenager or an adult.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s so much harder to switch lives with a teen,&#8221; she said assuredly. &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;ve got them in my house. My house is full of teens and they &#8212; that is hard work.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of those teens in her house is soon to become an adult, though; Garner and Affleck&#8217;s oldest daughter, Violet, turns 18 on Dec. 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, Garner stopped by\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Live with Kelly &amp; Mark <\/span><\/em><span>to chat with\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/mark-consuelos\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Consuelos<\/a><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/kelly-ripa\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><span>\u00a0about her new film and how she feels about being the mom to a soon-to-be college student.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Nathan Howard\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>&#8220;We hear you&#8217;re about to have an adult in your household?&#8221; Consuelos asked Garner during the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I am. I&#8217;m about to have an adult,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Three days. I&#8217;m three days from my eldest turning 18. Can you guys believe that?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She went on to add that Violet is in the thick of the college admissions process and that she is proud to see her pursue her goals &#8220;like a champ.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It is exciting,&#8221; the actress said. &#8220;I can see the stress \u2014 even though the excitement and stress go hand in hand. But she&#8217;s handling it like a champ and she&#8217;s totally in charge. I&#8217;m not having to say, &#8216;Are you doing this, are you doing this?&#8217; She&#8217;s a self-starter. And I&#8217;m just proud of her no matter what.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Family Switch<\/span><\/em><span>, also starring <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/media\/videos\/emma-myers-reacts-to-breakout-role-as-enid-sinclair-in-wednesday-exclusive-195261\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Myers<\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/rita-moreno\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Moreno<\/a><span> and Brady Noon, arrives on Netflix on Nov. 30.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/jennifer-garner-on-her-kids-teaching-her-humility-and-how-teens-are-hard-work-exclusive-215686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Garner is not ashamed to admit the lesson that her three children are teaching her as a mom.&nbsp; Talking with ET&rsquo;s<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/jennifer-garner-on-her-kids-teaching-her-humility-and-how-teens-are-hard-work-exclusive\/29\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}