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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Reunite connected Thanksgiving to Help Feed the Homeless
Jennifer Garner’s vacation play sounds elektric.
And that’s successful ample portion acknowledgment to her and Ben Affleck’s kids, Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, who are much than consenting to bring their culinary skills to the table.
"I person 1 kid who specializes successful mashed potatoes, that's their specialty,” Jennifer told People of Thanksgiving this year. “I person 1 kid who is each astir making an pome pie, that's their specialty, and past I person 1 who goodness lone knows what she volition make."
And the festive treats won’t halt aft Thanksgiving.
“The different nighttime I got location from work, and my lad had Christmas euphony playing afloat blast done the full house,” the 13 Going connected 30 star added. “And helium was wearing an apron and helium was making ginger snaps.”
She continued, “And it was conscionable like, 'That's what I'm looking for. That is the vigor that I privation to spot brought to our location close now.’”
But erstwhile it comes to spreading vacation cheer, Jennifer’s celebrations don’t extremity successful the kitchen. In fact, the 52-year-old has 1 large point connected her to-do database for ensuring the cleanable vacation season.
“We'll decidedly spell spot The Nutcracker,” she revealed. “Because that is simply a immense portion of Christmas for maine and for my kids—thank goodness I've drilled it into them—and conscionable being unneurotic with family."
And it’s that being unneurotic that seems to peculiarly onslaught a chord for Jennifer. After all, she and Ben reunited connected Thanksgiving Day this twelvemonth for a worthy cause.
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The erstwhile couple—who were joined betwixt 2005 and 2015—volunteered for The Midnight Mission successful Los Angeles by serving meals to those successful request successful the city’s Skid Row neighborhood. And successful pictures posted by the organization, the mates were each smiles arsenic they posed successful matching aprons with CEO David Prentice.
“Today, we were honored to person Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner articulation america astatine The Midnight Mission for Thanksgiving,” the Instagram post read. “Their kindness, warmth, and dedication brought truthful overmuch joyousness to our Skid Row community.”
For her part, Jennifer—who is currently dating John Miller—has been candid astir starring by illustration erstwhile it comes to her kids and encouraging them to springiness backmost to their communities.
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“I deliberation teaching your kids thing is simply a lifelong occupation and surely values are something,” Jen told E! News successful 2016. “You can’t conscionable say, ‘Here, person values!’ You person to amusement them that you person values.”
“When they're older, they'll hopefully question with america and spell to places and beryllium boots connected the ground,” she continued, “but for close now, it's conscionable truly important to some of america that they spot and admit the enactment we do.”
For much connected Jennifer’s champion parenting quotes, support reading.
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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."
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