Brenda Song has found a pretty clever use for her fiancé Macaulay Culkin’s most iconic film, using alone at home as a real-life safety lesson for his two young children.
the first Zack and Cody’s suite life The star, 37, revealed to E! News that she and Culkin recently sat their kids down to watch their beloved 1990 Christmas classic for the first time.
The couple share children Dakota, four, and Carson, three, and while the little ones were thoroughly entertained by the booby traps and mayhem of Kevin McCallister’s antics, Song had something a little more enlightening in mind when the credits rolled.
“They love all the pranks and traps and stuff,” he said.
“They have no real concept [of the danger]. “My older son understands it more than my younger son.”
That didn’t stop him from seizing the moment.
“I remember at the end I said, ‘Look, your mom is here next to you. Don’t you want to give me a hug? I didn’t leave,'” he admitted, laughing.
“I’m terrible, but I feel like your kids have to be a little scared. Fear helps a lot.”
It’s all part of a broader approach Song has taken to keeping her children safe. You’ve been actively instilling the concept of stranger danger in your children, with a simple and memorable rule to help them understand it.
“I said, ‘They’re strange if you don’t know their name,'” he explained.
“I thought, ‘It doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s parents. If you don’t know their name or you’ve never seen them in our house before, they’re a stranger.'”
Culkin, it’s fair to say, finds all this a bit excessive. Song laughed and admitted, “My partner thinks I’m absolutely crazy about that.”
