Cardi B Knows Her Parenting Will Make Her Kids ‘Mad,’ but She Thinks It’s Worth It
Cardi B has three kids, with a fourth on the way. The rapper has said that she wants her children to get everything they want out of life, but acknowledged that she sees herself as a strict parent. She knows that this might get on their nerves, especially as they get older, but she feels that it will be worth it in the end.
Cardi B shared what she wants for her kids
When considering her children’s futures, Cardi said she wants them to be a “100 times better version” of her.
“It’s discipline. It’s gotta be in you, and you have to be better than me. I want you to be better than me,” she said on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast (via People). “There’s things that I cannot do that I want my kids to do.”
She knows that pushing her kids to be the best versions of themselves might create friction as they age. Still, she feels confident that they will appreciate her parenting one day.
“I want you to be smarter than me,” she said. “I want you to be — not perfect because you cannot make your kids perfect and you don’t want you to put pressure on your kids [to be] perfect — but I want you to be a 100 times better version than me, and I’m gonna [instill] that in you and you’re gonna be mad and you’re gonna be crying, but you’re gonna appreciate that one day because I wish the things that that I put on my kids that somebody put in me when I was younger.”
Cardi B shared one way her kids could disappoint her
While Cardi doesn’t expect her children to be perfect, she admitted that there are ways in which they might let her down.
“Please don’t be lazy,” she said. “Don’t be a bum. Some people have the look, the intelligence, the talent. Some people really have that. But they don’t go nowhere because they’re lazy.”
Both Cardi and her estranged husband, Offset, are wealthy and successful. She doesn’t want her children to rest on that, though.
“Don’t just be, ‘Oh, your parents are this and that,’” she said. “No, be your own person. Be your own human. Be something. Be something you could be proud of.”
She hopes that her children will see how hard she works and embrace a similar work ethic as they grow older.
She hopes to have more children
Cardi is currently pregnant with her fourth child, and her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs. She shares two daughters and a son with Offset. Before she announced her current pregnancy, Cardi said she was looking forward to having more children. She joked that she wanted to set herself up for a better future.
“It’s like the more kids you have, the less of a possibility you go to a home,” she said on The Jennifer Hudson Show. “One of them is going to wipe my butt.”
