Kylie shares her daughters Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 23 months, with husband Jason Kelce. Kylie Kelce has a new parenting method she’s been trying — and it comes from one of her favorite mantras.
The podcaster, who is currently pregnant with her fourth 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 with husband Jason Kelce, shares her newest parenting method on a Thursday, Feb. 6 episode of her podcast Not Gonna Lie. Kylie begins by explaining that she came across a post on Instagram about a method called “f— around and find out parenting.”
“The caption says FAFO parenting which stands for, we know, f— around and find out parenting, is the act of having your kids experience the natural consequences of their actions without getting too involved,” Kylie says.
Further down in the conversation, Kylie shares a recent example with her daughter Elliotte, 3, who didn’t want to wear a jacket outside when it was really cold.
“Elliotte is very much in the camp right now where she thinks she doesn’t need one,” the mom of three says. “And two weeks ago in Philadelphia, it was single-digit temperatures.”
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“So we did have the discussions that turned into arguments about putting on our jacket, which resulted in when I had had enough of the argument and clearly was not getting anywhere, my husband so graciously tagged in to the discussion and absolutely nailed it with asking Ellie if she would like to go outside on the front porch to feel how cold it was. So he opened the front door, took her outside for just less than a minute.”
Upon discovering just how cold it was outside, Elliotte came back inside and shared that it actually was freezing out there.
“And I’m like, ‘Great. Let’s put your jacket on.’ And then guess what? She put her jacket on,” she says. “So it was just one of those instances where, and my husband does this all the time, where he will realize that I have reached the point of no return and that we’re not getting anywhere, and then he will tag in.”
“And we do it sort of vice versa when someone needs it, but, he’s very good at that,” she says of Jason. “There are also times where I discuss things with them about safety and that the reason I don’t want them to do things is for the purpose of their safety.”
Kylie says her family still toes the line of giving their kids comfort when something goes wrong while also maintaining that they told them not to do something.
“I think there are some misunderstandings about the idea of gentle parenting,” Kylie says. “I think it’s a very wide spectrum when it comes to gentle parenting where I’ve seen that there are people who gentle parent in a way that their kids have no boundaries and are never told no.”
“And I just don’t feel as though my kids would be equipped to enter the world and hear no from other people, which is a legitimate answer outside of our house if they don’t receive it at home,” she adds. “So we don’t meet people on that end of the gentle parenting side.”
