I m excited to have a child one day: Shailene Woodley

Los Angeles Sep 23 (IANS) Actress Shailene Woodley says she is excited to have a child one day and will empower them to be an individual but will not give them a false reality about the world.

Talking about being a mother the actress said in a statement: "I m excited to have a child one day but I want to be very cautious and aware - you need to give your child power empower them to be an individual but at the same time not give them a false reality of what the real world is like."

She said her mother is a parent coach.

"She coaches parents. She doesn t disclose many stories just for confidentiality reasons but from what I ve witnessed and some of the stories that she has told there s a real phenomena of giving your child so much power that she has parents coming to her and saying: ‘My kid won t go to sleep I don t know what to do .

"And my mom s just like have you told your kid that it s time to go to sleep? And they re like I can t do that because then my kid would hit me or my kid would yell at me. And my mom s like your kid s five you are in control " Woodley added.

The actress known for films like "Divergent" "The Fault in Our Stars" "Insurgent" and TV show "Big Little Lies" -- aired in India on Star World and Star World HD added: "There s a difference between being a controlling dominant parent who is unkind and being someone who expresses boundaries and restrictive natures so that when this child is nurtured into adulthood they don t enter the world and realise that they don t have feet to walk on."

She thinks "social media is catering to that problem and I think the internet and technology and reality shows are catering to that too - we re just feeding false narratives about society".

--IANS
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