![]() ![]() There's things that, you know, I obviously didn't love about myself growing up, but as a young adult, there's nothing that I would change about myself.' And I would say that those affirmations got her to that point, because there's so many things in the world for our young people to want, to aspire to be something else, to look different, to sound different, to dress different. "And she knows that outside of everybody else, this is who I am, and I've heard this for 16 years." She recalls sitting her daughter down after she graduated from high school at age 17 and asking, "Is there anything about yourself that you don't like? Let's talk about it."Īccording to Simon, Kennedy "sat for a second and she was really introspective and she said, 'No, there's nothing about myself that I would change. are things Simon started teaching Kennedy, and now Levi, from a young age as a daily ritual on their drives to school.Ī post shared by Jazmyn Simon affirmations] really have shaped how she sees herself," Simon says. The affirmations featured in the book - "I am important," "I am loved," etc. Her real-life experience as a mom has also laid the groundwork for the Raising Dion star's second book, Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day, a guide to kid-friendly affirmations co-authored by her husband and illustrated by Shamar Knight-Justice. Last year, Simon released her first children's book, The Most Perfect You, inspired by the conversations she's had with her daughter. ![]() I have to get out of my own way sometimes." She knows that she can talk to me about anything, but there's some things that she knows he's going to have a calmer demeanor with, so she starts there. "And there's a lot of things that she will call me first because we are best friends. ![]() "There's some things with Kennedy that she will call her dad first," she shares. But now it's two of us.'" Ultimately, that's "to their benefit," she says, in reference to their two children. "He has to remind me, 'yes, you did a great job with her, good job. But it just doesn't work that way, because we have a two-parent home now, you know?"Ī post shared by Jazmyn Simon and Hill have "bumped heads" over it. I am Wonder Woman - and so my first instinct is to do that with Levi, to, like, steamroll ahead and do all the things that worked with Kennedy. Now, I feel like I did a really great job with Kennedy - I'm like, I did a great job. And so I have to remind myself that it's not his fault that I was a single parent and that his opinion adds value to our children's lives. In a partnership, though, I can't discount Dulé. I get a little bit resentful when I have to ask somebody else, because for 10 years, which is a long time, I made every decision for her. I use a lot of 'I's instead of 'we's in emails. ![]() "I will say that the hardest thing for me is co-parenting," she admits. It has to be roots that run deep."Īs a former single mom who spent about a decade doing it on her own, has Simon struggled to adjust to parenting with a partner? You bet. And I think any relationship that's going to have any staying power has to have a deep foundation. It really happened organically over time, so that by the time that Kennedy even asked to be adopted by me, it was a no-brainer. "Kennedy and I really took our time forming our relationship the same way Jazmyn and I took our time forming our relationship. "I didn't become a dad overnight," the actor says. Hill, who earned an Emmy nomination for his turn as presidential aide Charlie on The West Wing, has also adopted Kennedy. The following year, they welcomed son Levi, who turns 4 next week. The actors - who have also played an onscreen couple in three Psych movies - tied the knot in 2018. "It would be a very wise move of me to be able to be on this parenting journey with Jazmyn." And I knew that in any way that we expanded our family, it was going to be a wonderful thing." He laughs. I got a chance to see in real time how she parents. "Because she was already a phenomenon, but I saw the magnificent job that she was doing with Kennedy. "I knew that I couldn't lose," the Wonder Years star says. Unlike a lot of couples, Hill got to see early on how Simon was as a mom, and what it might be like to raise a family together. When Dulé Hill and Jazmyn Simon first met, the actress was already a single mom to daughter Kennedy, now an 18-year-old who is finishing up her first year at Northwestern University. Welcome to So Mini Ways, Yahoo Life's parenting series on the joys and challenges of childrearing. Actors Dulé Hill and Jazmyn Simon have teamed up for an empowering new children's book. ![]()
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