Nicole Kidman doesn’t think she could "motivate" her children to follow her career path.
The ‘Big Little Lies’ actress – who has adult children Bella and Connor with ex-husband Tom Cruise and Sunday, 10, and Faith, eight, with spouse Keith Urban – admitted her youngest daughters are both musical, while Sunday is also interested in acting but the award-winning star won’t be trying to get them "into" her profession.
She said: "You can’t really get kids into anything, I’ve realised. You can push them a bit, but motivation is a really hard thing. I mean, nobody motivated me to be an actor; if anything they tried to deter me."
Nicole thinks it is important to have "boundaries" for her young children.
She told America’s Vanity Fair magazine: "They don’t have a phone and I don’t allow them to have an Instagram. I try to keep some sort of boundaries."
The 51-year-old actress makes sure she and Keith regularly attend church with their kids but she insists she doesn’t have blind faith.
She said: "That’s how we are raising our children. Keith has his own beliefs but he comes, too.
"I had a very Catholic grandmother, and I was raised praying, so that had massive impact. I wouldn’t say it’s absolutism, there’s constant questioning–I’m a willful, feisty girl.
"For me it’s very important that I don’t have judgment. My dad would always say, ‘Tolerance is the most important thing.’ "
And Nicole – who is a Goodwill Ambassador for UN women – is doing her best to educate her daughters about causes that she is passionate about, such as campaigns to end violence towards women.
She said: "I was talking to Sunday about there being little girls in different parts of this world who don’t own their bodies. A man owns their body. Her eyes were like ‘What?’ We’re trying to educate about those things. But it’s giving the information gently, and then guiding."
Nicole Kidman won’t push kids into careers
