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Ben Affleck is 1 chill dad.
The Gone Girl histrion took his son Samuel, 12, to the Los Angeles Lakers' location crippled against the Toronto Raptors Nov. 10. The duo was each smiles during their uncommon father-son nationalist outing arsenic they sat courtside to ticker the Lakers cruise to a 123-103 victory.
Ben—who shares Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel with ex-wife Jennifer Garner—kept it casual successful a grey coat, khaki button-down garment and grey jeans portion Samuel rocked each black. They adorably some wore a matching brace of the aforesaid Nike sneakers.
This wasn't the archetypal clip that Ben, 52, and Samuel person been spotted astatine NBA games together. In fact, the preteen has attended respective hoops games with his celebrated parents implicit the years, astir precocious erstwhile helium sat courtside with his begetter and then-wife Jennifer Lopez in March.
Their latest father-son excursion comes amid Ben's ongoing divorce from the 55-year-old "Love Don't Cost A Thing" singer, who filed for divorcement backmost successful August.
Samuel besides precocious had a bonding infinitesimal with his parent and the 13 Going connected 30 histrion took him to a haunted house for Halloween.
Jennifer, 52, shared a hilarious video of herself going done the spooky attraction with her lad Oct. 27. The actress, who is famously backstage astir her children connected societal media, ne'er showed her lad successful the clip, but helium could beryllium heard respective times throughout, including astatine 1 constituent joking to his mom, "Mom you’re breaking my hand, I can’t really consciousness my hand."
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And, portion Jennifer seldom shows her children online, she isn't shy astir posting astir their large beingness updates.
The Alias alum commemorated her oldest daughter, Violet's, precocious schoolhouse graduation backmost successful May, shared a fewer photos and videos of herself getting affectional during her ceremony.
"Tell maine you person a postgraduate without telling maine you person a graduate," she captioned the post. "Bless our hearts."
In 1 of the clips, she asked, "How are we going to marque it? What are we going to do?"
The adjacent month, the parent of 3 made definite to besides pay tribute to the teachers who person helped her children larn and turn implicit the years.
"Thank you for caring astir my children with me," she wrote connected Instagram successful June, "for tying their shoes and holding their hands. Thank you for disciplining my kids erstwhile they've needed it and for offering much hugs than immoderate children person successful a lifetime."
"I'm definite that the demands and frustrations of the schoolroom tin obfuscate the ngo down your spot successful it," she added, "but what's much noble than teaching children-not a full lot, arsenic acold arsenic I tin tell."
Keep speechmaking for much of Jennifer's champion quotes astir parenthood.
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United Front
When it comes to co-parenting, Jennifer Garner volition ever support a cordial narration with her ex-husband Ben Affleck for the involvement of their children: Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.
“It’s not Ben’s occupation to marque maine happy," Garner shared successful a 2016 Vanity Fair interview. "The main happening is these kids―and we’re wholly successful enactment with what we anticipation for them."
She continued, "Sure, I mislaid the imagination of dancing with my hubby astatine my daughter’s wedding. But you should spot their faces erstwhile helium walks done the door. And if you spot your kids emotion idiosyncratic truthful purely and wholly, past you’re going to beryllium friends with that person.”
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Humble Beginnings
Though she and Affleck are some palmy actors, Garner doesn't privation their kids to unrecorded wrong a Hollywood bubble.
"It's truly important for my kids to spot that everyone doesn’t person the lives they spot successful Los Angeles," she told Southern Living. "That doesn’t bespeak the remainder of the world. I privation them to turn up with the Southern values I had―to look astatine radical erstwhile they accidental hullo and to halt and odor the roses."
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Model Behavior
And that's wherefore her parenting benignant is precise hands-on.
“I deliberation teaching your kids thing is simply a lifelong occupation and surely values are something―you can’t conscionable say, ‘Here, person values!’" she antecedently told E! News. "You person to amusement them that you person values."
Explaining however mounting a bully illustration is the "most important job," the Alias alum added that she and Affleck—who she split with successful 2015 aft 10 years of marriage—hope that their kids "see and admit the enactment we do."
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Go With the Flow
Of course, determination is nary 1 modular mode of parenting.
“As overmuch arsenic you deliberation that, ’OK, I’m going to travel what this idiosyncratic says,'" Garner noted during a 2016 quality connected Late Night With Seth Meyers, "it’s not up to you, dude."
Advising parents to "let it go" erstwhile it comes to their worries, the 13 Going connected 30 prima continued, "You’re going to struggle. It’s going to suck—just similar for everyone else."
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Parenting With Purpose
For Garner, the cardinal to maintaining a bully operation for her kids is mounting up boundaries and rules.
"You conscionable person to bash it," she explained to Us Weekly. "It’s not pretty. I don’t deliberation that I’m ever the champion astatine it, but I effort my champion to beryllium accordant and for them to cognize what they tin expect from me."
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No Worries
And erstwhile she does experience a roadblock successful her parenting journey, Garner believes "every time is simply a caller start."
"You ever tin say, ‘Today, we’re going to effort this!'" she told People. "And if it goes horribly, you tin say, ‘Today, we’re throwing that out, and we’re trying this!’"
The histrion added, "That’s portion of what I similar astir being a ma successful general."
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Mom Life
Garner's motherhood joyousness extends into the cinematic beingness arsenic well.
"I’m truly gladsome that I’m playing moms," she told Today, "because there’s nary much affluent clip successful women’s lives than erstwhile you person your babies."
