Eva Mendes Gets Pressed About The Parenting Habit She’s Trying To Break

It’s hard trying to make the right decisions as a mom — even if you’re as famous as she is Eva Mendes.

The actress got emotional as she admitted that there is one parenting habit she tries with all her might during her appearance on the Tuesday, October 15 episode of “Parenting & You With Dr. Shefali.”

Mendes shares two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 10, and Amada Lee, 8, with partner Ryan Gosling, 43, and touched on “scolding” his children.

“I think it’s one of the hardest patterns for me to shout. Because he calls me when he needs me,” said Mendes, 50, in the podcast. “I’m not at all like ‘shut up.’ It’s not the same as ‘bad’ crying, but it doesn’t matter. I shout. And it’s this shouting that I find traditional.”

He added, “I have trouble passing and I don’t yell. Rushing and screaming, that’s the hardest thing for me.”

Mendes has a Cuban background and while growing up he was popular, he explained that his parents Eva Pérez Suárez again Juan Carlos Méndez he used “fear” to keep her in shape when raising her.

Mendes seemed angry as he said “fear” is something he wants to avoid instilling in his children.

“I hope I don’t look back in 20 years and say, ‘Well, shoot,’ because I really don’t want to raise in fear,” Mendes said. “That’s him — I’m sorry, I’m affected by it — because it’s not good for children. I hope I’m not putting pressure on them without knowing it because of fear like I was brought up with.”

Mendes, who took time off from her Hollywood career to raise her and Gosling’s daughters, recently spoke of feeling “lost” when her children reached middle childhood.

“I actually didn’t feel lost, I felt very clear,” Mendes said The Drew Barrymore Show on the first of September she became a mother. “But, then I felt lost, if that makes sense. Then it’s like saying, ‘Okay, who am I now that the children can live on their own?'”

He continued, “They’re only 8 and 10 years old, but you know what I mean, they don’t need me every second. It’s a little different.”

Meanwhile, Gosling admitted in May that he will no longer be able to act in a “dark” scene so it won’t interfere with his home life, which includes Mendes and their daughters.

“I don’t really take roles that will put me in a dark place,” Gosling told the newspaper The Wall Street Journal at that time. “This moment is what I feel like I’m trying to read the homeroom and feel like that’s what’s going to be good for all of us. The decisions I make, I make them with Eva and we make them considering our family first.”