Brian Austin Green Opens up About Co-Parenting With Ex Megan Fox — & Why It’s OK That They Don’t Always Get Along
When it comes to co-parenting, Brian Austin Green is OK with things not being perfect. He shared how he handles raising his sons Noah, 11, Bodhi, 10, and Journey, 7, with ex Megan Fox, in a new interview, and we love the honesty!
“The number one is always make sure that everything is centered around the experience of the kids,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 star told E! News at Steel City Comic Con on April 13. Part of that means that he and Fox have to “pick [their] battles” when it comes to their sons.
“People make a mistake of thinking that they’re gonna do things so the separation doesn’t affect the kids and that’s — of course it’s gonna affect the kids,” he explained. “The only choice you have is how it affects the kids.”
That’s an insightful perspective, and a healthy attitude to have. You don’t have to agree on every little thing with your co-parent — or tie yourself in knots thinking that will protect the kids from heartbreak. As long as you put them first, though, everything will work out.
“The person that you were with that you’re now separated from, you guys are separated for a reason,” Brian continued, “because you didn’t get along. So, you can’t expect to then get along after the fact in raising your kids.”
“So, you have to decide, ‘OK, it’s not about us getting along anymore. It’s about us co-parenting, which is a totally different situation,’” he added.
It’s definitely not easy to navigate, but they seem to be doing well with it. In an interview on the Old-Ish podcast in September, Green said that he and the Transformers star “co-parent really well together.”
“When we need to, we communicate really well, we are open to things, we don’t take things personally,” he continued. “It is my goal, and I think it’s her goal as well, that the kids are in as healthy environment as they can be in.”
Green’s fiancé Sharna Burgess, who he shares 21-month-old son Zane with, also gets along “really well” with Fox. “We are lucky because we have a great relationship,” Burgess said on the podcast. “I think what’s so important is we have made that a priority, for us to be able to interact and have a great time.”
“I think it’s really important when people separate to never ever disparage the other parent or even in a passive aggressive way, make remarks,” Fox previously said on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I don’t let anything in my energy like that when I’m around my kids because if I don’t accept and love their father, I’m rejecting a part of them because he’s a part of who they are always. He’s in their blood. And he’s in their psyche. And they exist because of him. So if I reject him, I reject them.”
She added, “That gives your children the freedom to be happy because they don’t have to carry the burden of a war between parents.”
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