Busy Philipps Gives Updates on Daughter Birdie at Boarding School, Not Posting Cricket on Social Media

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00:00 Do you feel like with Birdie you have that teenage angst with her?

00:04 Well, you know, with Birds, it's interesting.

00:07 We have a really tight relationship and she's very much like her mother in all kinds of

00:15 ways.

00:18 And she's super expressive.

00:20 So it's not, it's not as much of like a, like a typical like teenager, like, like I can't

00:27 say my mom.

00:28 Yeah.

00:29 I don't know her at all.

00:30 And in fact, I think that, you know, she's been in boarding school this school year abroad

00:35 and I know it's crazy per her.

00:38 It's a whole journey.

00:39 It was not my choice.

00:40 I mean, it was her choice, but I mean, I'm encouraged.

00:43 I encouraged her to spread her wings.

00:46 I think it was, I think it's really great for her to experience another culture.

00:51 And, um, and also it has, you know, freed us up our relationship up to being more about

01:00 the fun things and less about like clean your room, like do your laundry, get out of bed,

01:05 you know, eat your vegetables.

01:08 Now there's like someone else that's doing that.

01:11 And so I just got kind of like the fun stuff.

01:13 Yeah.

01:14 Yeah.

01:15 But that had to be hard for you to kind of let go.

01:16 Oh, this year has been really impossible.

01:18 Yeah.

01:19 It's been really hard.

01:21 Really?

01:22 What's been the most difficult thing you think?

01:24 Just like, just seeing her every day, like in person and like, yeah, like just not getting

01:33 to hold her.

01:35 And, um, you know, she was, she got really sick in the winter and like not being there

01:41 was really difficult.

01:44 Um, so yeah, that all has been challenging, you know, but also again, I really am so proud

01:54 of her and the person that she wants.

01:57 She's very independent, like her mother.

01:58 And I thought back to my own teen years and how much I would have loved to have gone to

02:04 boarding school and been away from, and especially given the pandemic and the last few years

02:11 and what these kids have kind of experienced, they've spent enough time with their parents.

02:16 Right.

02:17 Yes.

02:18 How does she feel when you talk about her on like the podcast and things like that?

02:19 Do they, do the girls care at all?

02:21 Well, Cricket does not want me to post her on Instagram and that's like totally reasonable

02:26 and I don't.

02:27 Um, and so then I got like weird comments from people that are like, well, you clearly

02:30 have a favorite daughter.

02:31 I'm like, well, I don't.

02:32 Um, but okay, whatever.

02:33 Cause yeah.

02:34 Um, people are wild.

02:35 People are wild.

02:36 But Birdie doesn't, Birdie doesn't mind it.

02:41 She kind of likes it.

02:42 And you know, sometimes there, I mean, there are certain things that I think in retrospect,

02:51 I mean, all of this happened simultaneously, right?

02:54 Like, um, when I started Instagram, it was like a very new platform.

03:02 And so it wasn't kind of the same thing that it is where I to like have children right

03:09 now, you know, for instance, like different decisions would probably be made to protect

03:14 everyone involved.

03:15 Um, but I do also think that there's value in sharing stories and, um, and connecting

03:25 with people.

03:26 And so for me personally, thinking back all those years ago when I started, you know,

03:32 doing Instagram stories and really talking about my life and what my experience was,

03:37 um, I was in a place as a mom that I felt so alone and isolated.

03:42 And I didn't know that there were thousands and thousands of other women that were like

03:46 experiencing the same thing, feeling the same things.

03:49 And it, you know, I think at its best that like, what is what social media has given

03:58 so many of us, especially women, you know?

04:03 And then we know what it is that it's worse.

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