Mark Wahlberg wants his children to "trust" him.
The 42-year-old actor – who has kids Ella, 10, Michael, eight, Brendan, five, and Grace, four, with wife Rhea Durham – thinks it is important to have a close relationship with his family so they aren’t "terrified" of him, but he insists that doesn’t mean he won’t administer discipline when needed.
He said: "I think the most important thing is to always be involved in every aspect of their life. To give them enough trust that they can share things with you. I don’t want them to be terrified of me, you know?
"But I don’t want them to think they can do whatever they want and get away with it, either, because they can’t."
The ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ star – who spent time in prison when he was younger – is proud of his success but worries his wealth means his kids won’t "appreciate" things in the way he did when he was younger and growing up in a poor area.
He told the new issue of Esquire magazine: "The biggest thing for me is, you know, as quickly as I was able to turn it around, to get from there to here, from me having nothing as a kid to me here now, providing everything for my kids, it’s like, I worry that maybe they won’t appreciate things.
"I worry that maybe they’ll have a sense of entitlement. You don’t wanna give your kids everything without giving them the tools to be great people."
Mark Wahlberg wants to be ‘involved’ dad
