Khloé Kardashian Passionately Responds to Critics Who Say She's 'Too Mommy' — Including One of Her Sisters
Khloé Kardashian doesn’t understand critics who say she’s too involved as a parent, and she’s letting the world know exactly why she happily spends all of her time with her daughter and son.
On this week’s episode of The Kardashians, the mom of two addressed commentary on her preference to stay at home with 6-year-old True and 2-year-old Tatum. “For some reason, I keep getting dissected and scrutinized for being ‘too mommy,'” she began in a confessional. “Like, ‘You spend too much time with your kids; you never want to be social; you don’t have any friends.’ But for me, I genuinely feel like I was made to be a mom and there’s no other place I would rather be than here with my kids,” Khloé said.
The Good American co-founder continued, “There’s gonna be a time that my kids are gonna want to choose their friends over me. And right now, when I have the opportunity and the privilege of having dinner with my kids every night, I’m going to take advantage of that.” Khloé added, “In 15 years, my kids are never going to be like, ‘I really wish you worked more. I really remember that time that you were at work late.’ They’re going to be like, ‘Why the f*** weren’t you there?'”
Khloé also commented on the differences in how she and her sisters parent their children and why her lifestyle works for her household. “My sisters and I, we all have different households, we raise our kids differently,” she began. “I’m not judging if everyone’s happy and healthy and great, then wonderful, but my type of parenting is we do everything by a schedule.”
The mom of two explained, “My kids do love this security of knowing, ‘Okay, after I take a bath, I know it’s time to get in my pajamas and lay in bed and watch TV with my mommy.’ It works for me and my family.” Khloé added, “Listen, my kids are 6 and almost 2, who knows? In two or three years from now, I might be like, ‘Okay, I need more of a social [life].’ I don’t know. But right now, this is what makes me happy, and this is where my heart wants to be.”
In the same episode, Khloé and her sister Kim Kardashian had a heated argument in which the SKIMS founder opined that Khloé needed to do more things without her kids. “You need to live your life,” Kim told her sister. “You have the world at your fingertips but you won’t go see the world. You won’t let yourself go out there to find someone or even, like, a group of friends.”
Kim continued to accuse Khloé of spending all of her time at a friend’s party on FaceTime with True and Tatum then making an excuse to leave because of her kids’ schedule. The elder sister said, “You have no … You’re just, like, confined in Hidden Hills; your kids rule your life. ‘I have a schedule; I have somewhere to be,'” Kim mocked Khloé, adding, “It’s crazy. I feel bad for you.”
Khloé further spoke on the difference of opinion in a confessional taping, sharing, “My sisters always say, like, I’m so rigid or I have such a strict schedule with my kids. I don’t think I have such a strict schedule. I just have a schedule,” she said.
Khloé explained, “We have a time to wake up so we can get ready for school, do hair, breakfast. Then after school we normally have, like, an extracurricular activity. We do have dinner around 6:00, 6:30. It’s not like if you’re not at dinner at 6:01, you’re disciplined,” the mom of two said with a confused laugh. “Like, I don’t know what she thinks.”
“Why are we constantly nitpicking what I do in my personal house if I’m not asking you guys to live the same life?” Khloé asked. “Can’t we all just be, I don’t know, like, the moms we want to be?”
We have to agree with Khloé — every child and every household has different parenting needs, and as long as everyone within the family is happy and healthy, there’s no need to criticize the way a household operates just because you might do it differently. As evidenced by a rant Kim went on about Khloé doing her daughter Chicago’s hair during the episode, it’s clear the strongly opinionated sister doesn’t appreciate mom-shaming either. So much for that parenting pact they agreed to a few year’s ago, huh?
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