busy philippines Proud of elder daughter Birdie’s “complete journey” at boarding school in Sweden.
“We have a really strong relationship and she’s like her mom in every way and she’s very expressive, so it’s not like a normal teenager,” Phillips, 44, exclusively revealed. us weekly on Wednesday, May 1 while discussing Mental Health Awareness Month. “She’s been at boarding school abroad this year [and] It is a complete journey. it was not my choice [for her to go], I mean, it was her choice, but I mean, I encouraged her to do it. [spread her wings],
She added, “I think it’s really great for her to experience another culture and it’s made our relationship more about fun things and more about things like ‘cleaning your room,’ ‘washing your clothes,’ ‘making bed,’ Has reduced about ‘exit’. [and] ‘eat your vegetables.’ Now there’s someone else who’s doing it and so I just kind of find a funny thing.
Phillips shares 16-year-old Birdie with ex-husband mark silversteinWith youngest daughter Cricket (10), in the middle of Birdie’s high school tenure, she enrolled in an institute located in Sweden. While Phillips is able to see Birdie “every day” via FaceTime, she misses being able to “hold” her daughter.
“She got really sick over the winter and it was really hard not being there,” Phillips said. Wereferring to birdies recent seizure Due to which epilepsy was diagnosed. “So this has all been challenging. But at the same time, I’m really proud of her and the person she’s become. [to be], She is very independent like her mother. [And] Especially given the pandemic and the last few years and what these kids have gone through, they’ve spent a fair amount of time with their parents, [and] Like, ‘Can I be around some kids, please?'”
Birdie Silverstein and Busy Phillips.
Slaven Vlasic/Getty ImagesWhile Birdie is now thriving at her boarding school – and “doing really well” health-wise – Cricket is staying at home with the Phillips in the United States.
“Cricket is his own person and he has his own unique interests and we will see how it all looks for cricket,” girls5eva star Said about his youngest daughter. Phillips also defended his decision to not share cricket updates frequently on social media. “I’m more reticent about [post] About cricket only because it is not his subject. And so, I really respect that. She says, ‘Let me be my own person,’ and I get it. I like it for that.”
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In addition to co-parenting her daughters with Silverstein, Phillips is prioritizing her mental health and learning to come to terms with it. his ADHD diagnosis,
“I mean, [my diagnosis has] Changed everything,” he told us. “My executive functioning skills have improved a lot. I’m a lot more aware and able to prioritize because I think that’s a big part of it too, that when everything gets mixed up, it’s hard to know how to prioritize things in your mind.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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