Reese Witherspoon wants her kids to taste disappointment in school
Reese Witherspoon hopes her kids don’t get special treatment at school, because disappointment is character building. She hates the idea of Ava and Deacon being protected from the realities of life in a trendy school that refuses to pick winners and losers.
She says, “That’s one of the most formative experiences. I wouldn’t want my children to miss out on any of that teasing and bullying. It kind of makes you who you are, when you don’t make it onto the soccer team. It drives me crazy when everyone wins the award. I remember the two weeks of crying because I didn’t make the team. It makes me interesting.”
WENN
February 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
“I wouldn’t want my children to miss out on any of that teasing and bullying.”
I was teased and bullied pretty badly at school- I’d hate to think my mother wanted me to go through all of that, jeez it was hell!
February 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Yeah. Reese Witherspoon is crazy. Crying for two weeks and being bullied is not what makes her interesting. That isn’t what makes you you. She’s doing the classic thing a lot of people do when they’ve been abused - minimizing how much it sucked and how wrong it was, and trying to justify it as character-building or something. And then make their kids go through it to justify their denial about the abuse. Suck.
February 12th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
No!! Why do everyone always twist th things she say. Off course she is not talking of hard core bullying. She is talking about the fact that experiencing problems or having to deal with other people is a part of life and you learn a lot from it. When i was 10 I was bestfriend woth the most popular girl in class and she totally owned me. But I got out and now I believe I am much stronger and more secure because of what happened. It is a part of life and I think it is great that Reese Witherspoon wants her kids to learn to lose and struggle. It is going to happen anyways.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am
That is what I got from what she said, Mathilde.