Actress Jada Pinkett Smith says good parenting requires trust.
The 42-year-old actress, who has two children with actor husband Will Smith, said she is proud of how she has raised her daughter Willow, 13, reported Us magazine.
"I'm not a conventional parent, which I take a lot of pride in. I don't just sit with Willow and go, 'Hey, this is what Mommy thinks. Let me just bring in a little reality to validate what Mommy's been talking to you about'. What I do with Willow is I give her the opportunity to be empowered by having herself first," she said.
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"I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting (onto them), and that's a terrible, terrible trap," she added.