Jennifer Garneris getting candid about parenting teenagers.
The mom of three told PEOPLE on Thursday night during the premiere for her new showThe Last Thing He Told Meat Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles that she understands just how hard it is to be a teen in this day and age.
“I just have a huge heart for teenagers,” said Garner, 50. “I love them. I love what they’re going through. I see how hard it is to be a teen right now.”
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“So that was funny. Just a different layer of teen to deal with,” she added.
Garner — who is mom to daughtersViolet Anne, 17, andSeraphina Rose, 14, plus sonSamuel Garner, 11, all of whom she shares with ex-husbandBen Affleck— said the key to supporting her kids as they navigate this phase of their life is just being open to learning new things.
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“I mean, I’m learning as much from them, or more from them, than they’ll ever learn from me,” theYes Daystar said.
The13 Going on 30actress, known for being a relatable mom, said in a recent interview withInStylethat it was “very difficult” for her to"play a character who’s not maternal at all."
“I’ve played a mom quite a bit, and that is actually lovely, because it’s very easy to slip into mothering some awesome young actor, and then you build a relationship under it, so at the end, you’re quite close,” she added.
Working with Rice required them to “become a team,” Garner told the publication, after initially being “almost adversarial at the beginning of the series.”
“We had to build trust, a partnership, become a team — whether we liked it or not — until we were legitimately close,” she said. “It was nice to have our real relationship build slowly over time — that our trust built over time, just like Hannah and Bailey.”
source: people.com
