Goldie Hawnis feeling proud of how her children have raised their own.
The 76-year-old was named one of PEOPLE’s Women Changing the World for hernon-profit program MindUp, which focuses on children’s mental health, and opened up about how her kids —Kate Hudson,Oliver Hudson, andWyatt Russell— have implemented some of her own parenting techniques.
Hawn is grandmother to Kate’s kidsRyder Robinson, 18,Bingham Hawn Bellamy, 10, andRani Rose Hudson Fujikawa, 3; Oliver’s kids,Bodhi Hawn Hudson, 11,Wilder Brooks Hudson, 14,Rio Hudson, 8; andWyatt’s son, Buddy Prine Russell, whom he welcomed last year.
“My children are really great with their children,” Hawn tells PEOPLE. “They’ve taken MindUP principles and offered them to their kids, and they’re doing great.”
“So that’s the way it works. As a parent, you basically raise your children to raise their children appropriately as well. So that’s that domino effect,” she adds. “And as parents, we have a tremendous responsibility.”
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Hawn foundedMindUpin 2003 while on a break from acting that lasted 15 years. The organization provides curriculums for kids, parents and schools focusing on the mental health and “brain fitness” of children.
She said that though she wasn’t able to implement those skills in her own children, she’s hoping to be a vocal advocate for parents to teach their kids about mindfulness and mental health care.
“We want our children to have agency over their emotions,” Hawn says. “The brain is an amazing thing. And we need to use it like a muscle, and strengthen it.”
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Hawn added that because of the mental health struggles children are facing amid the pandemic, she’s expanding her MindUp programs across the world, with a presence in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Portugal, and more.
“Today we are facing a new pandemic. And that pandemic is very serious. Serious because it’s really, really hurting our children’s mental stability, mental health. We have got a lot of work to do now to unwind some of the anxiety, the fear, the panic attacks, all the things that are happening now for children. It’s very, very dangerous,” Hawn tells PEOPLE.
“So that’s my advocacy now. I will go right on until I don’t in terms of trying to bring that into all classrooms everywhere,” she says.
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source: people.com
