Kate Hudson is keeping it real about the ups and downs of motherhood.
During an interview on Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast Thursday, the “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” actress — who is mom to sons Ryder, 21, and Bingham, 13, and daughter Rani, 6 — candidly spoke about having apologize to her kids when she “goes too far” in parenting.
“I became combative with my 13-year-old … where is that gonna go?” she said, referring to her son Bingham refusing to do something she asked him to do.
“But it happens all the time as a parent. When you walk away from it, you can recognize where you might’ve created more of a problem than you did a lesson,” Hudson, 45, added.
“The importance of being able to tell your kids that you could do better, I could’ve handled that situation better, actually models much more for them than being stubborn and saying, ‘No I can’t admit that I was wrong.’”
The “Glorious” singer said that has become the “biggest lesson” for her now that she feels like a “veteran mother.”
“I’ve been doing it for 21 years. It’s like, to admit — you’re gonna make mistakes, you’re gonna be wrong,” she added. “And to share your imperfections with your kids in moments without — to be able to say to your kids, ‘I could have handled that better and I’m sorry because you don’t deserve me to get that angry at you right now.’”
Hudson said parents who don’t realize their own behaviors could be teaching their children “conflict resolution.”
“Sometimes in conflict, you go too far, and you need to say you’re sorry. Instead of teaching them that you doubled down. And what you find in going to your kids and saying, ‘I made a mistake,’ … that connection becomes stronger. That has been the biggest lesson for me is knowing when to do that,” she explained.
The “Almost Famous” star admitted that parenting is “hard” and that no matter how you try to do it, “you’re gonna make mistakes, you’re gonna f–k your kids up at some point in some way.”
“Even in the most loving, connective, healthy, attached, parental situation, you’re still going to mess up,” she said.
Hudson welcomed her eldest son, Ryder, in January 2004 with her ex-husband, Chris Robinson. She then gave birth to Bingham, whom she shares with ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy, in July 2011.
The actress became a mom of three in October 2018 when she and her now-fiancé, Danny Fujikawa, welcomed their daughter, Rani.