Don’t be fooled by the stone she got.
Jennifer Lopez has revealed how she has avoided “spoiling” her twin children, Max and Emme, who are heading off to college.
During an appearance on Monday night’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” host Andy Cohen asked the singer for her “best advice” for not messing up your kids.
“So they’re doing what you see them doing,” said Ms. Lopez, who shares 18-year-old twins with ex-husband Marc Anthony.
“So it doesn’t really matter what you tell them all the time. I’m trying to download everything I’ve learned in my life, all the lessons, to them right now…before they leave (for college) in August. I still feel like it’s about who you are as a person, how you act, how they see you, and the harder you work, the harder they work,” the 56-year-old “I’m Real” singer added.
The “Office Romance” star said children “imitate” their parents “in this weird way” and “learn” from them even if they “pretend to be the opposite.”
“Because my kids are saying, ‘I don’t want to be like you. I want to have my own path,'” she said.
“They see this persona as such. And I also see that they don’t imitate, they just pick up your good things and good traits,” the mother of two added.
Lopez and Anthony, 57, welcomed twins in February 2008. The two musicians were married for 10 years before divorcing in 2014.
Last month, their child Emme unveiled his new name, Oscar Muniz, at his high school graduation ceremony at Windward School in Los Angeles.
The “Hustlers” actress said the twins were accepted to all five colleges they applied to and also received scholarships.
“I saw how hard they worked from the time they got into fifth grade and school started getting serious. And they just worked hard,” she said in a recent interview with “Extra.”
