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.”

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."