Penn Badgley got candid about the pressure of fatherhood.
During his appearance on Bustle’s One Nightstand podcast, the You star opened up about the approach he and his wife Domino Kirke take to raising their children.
He said, “Right now, we have the 5-year-old in kind of a hybrid homeschooling environment. He’s not in kindergarten yet.”
“We don’t need to teach these kids as much as we try to teach. Our reading and math comprehension is declining because we actually start too early and so does everyone,” Penn added.
He went on to add that he just wants his kids to just “be kids.”
Penn said, “Sometimes you hear parents in Park Slope, Brooklyn, talking about their kids in the park, and it’s like, God bless you all, seriously, I know we’re all doing the best we can, but the neuroses and the anxiety.”
He added: “It’s like, can we just let these kids be kids? And the answer is, actually, no, because we don’t know how to play.”
It is pertinent to mention that Penn Badgley and Domino Kirke are parents of four children. The couple, who married in 2017, recently welcomed identical twins.
