{"id":5203,"date":"2026-06-09T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jennifer-lopez-breaks-down-exactly-how-she-avoided-raising-spoiled-kids\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:35:12","slug":"jennifer-lopez-breaks-down-exactly-how-she-avoided-raising-spoiled-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jennifer-lopez-breaks-down-exactly-how-she-avoided-raising-spoiled-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez breaks down exactly how she avoided raising &#8216;spoiled&#8217; kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F130355797.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Don\u2019t be fooled by the rocks that she got.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lopez revealed how she avoided raising her twin children, Max and Emme, to be \u201cspoiled\u201d as they head to college.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Monday night\u2019s episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CIxqkL_2nKE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWatch What Happens Live,\u201d<\/a> host Andy Cohen asked the \u201cSelena\u201d actress what the \u201cbest piece of advice\u201d she has to avoid spoiling your kids.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI mean, they do what they see you do,\u201d Lopez, who shares the 18-year-old twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony, replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s not so much what you tell them all the time. Even though I\u2019m trying to download everything I\u2019ve ever learned in my life, every lesson \u2026 to them right now \u2026 before they leave [for college] in August, I still feel like who you are as a person, how you act, what they see you do, if you work hard, they become more hard workers,\u201d the \u201cI\u2019m Real\u201d singer, 56, added.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez said kids \u201cmimic\u201d their parents \u201cin this weird way\u201d and \u201clearn\u201d from them even if they will \u201cact like they\u2019re opposite.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBecause my kids [are] like, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be anything like you. I want to have my own path,&#8217;\u201d she shared. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey see this persona as such a thing. And but I also see them like mimic, not mimic, but just pick up things that are the good things or the good traits about you,\u201d the mom of two added.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez and Anthony, 57, welcomed their twins in February 2008. The musicians were <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/article\/jennifer-lopezs-7-husbands-boyfriends-and-fiances\/\">married for 10 years<\/a> before they divorced in 2014.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">jlo\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, their child Emme <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/jennifer-lopezs-child-emme-debuts-new-name-at-high-school-graduation-ceremony\/\">debuted a new name<\/a>, Oskar Mu\u00f1iz, at the teen\u2019s high school graduation ceremony at Windward School in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHustlers\u201d actress said her twins have been accepted into all five colleges they applied to and received scholarships.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\">\u201cI watched how hard they worked, from the time they were like \u2026 when school gets serious in the fifth grade, and they just worked hard,\u201d she said in a recent interview with \u201cExtra.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/09\/parents\/jennifer-lopez-breaks-down-exactly-how-she-avoided-raising-spoiled-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t be fooled by the rocks that she got. 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