During a recent episode of Kelly Clarkson’s daytime talk show, the 43-year-old host talked with fellow mom/actress, Jessica Biel.
They talked a lot about parenting, and then discussed the differences between raising sons and daughters. And apparently, one of the biggest differences is that boys are dirty and girls are not.
Clarkson has one son and one daughter, and she says it’s incredibly difficult to get her son to brush his teeth…
He’s gonna hate me saying this, I don’t care, because maybe it’ll shame him into doing it. But he just refuses to brush his teeth. It’s like a thing, and so finally, I was like, ‘Hey, let’s make a fun thing of it.’ So I was in the shower, I’m like, ‘Just take your toothbrush and your toothpaste in the shower. You can be messy. You can do whatever.’
And believe it or not, this actually works. He’s now brushing his teeth, but Clarkson wonders why she has to trick her son into brushing his teeth.
With her daughter? It’s so much different…
I don’t know what it’s about boys. They don’t wanna brush. My girl is always like, ‘Oh yeah, of course, I did that.’ Like I’m an idiot that I asked her. And then my son, he’s just like, ‘Yeah, I totally did.’ And I’m like, ‘You’re lying. Let me smell your breath.’
Biel, who has two sons of her own, completely agreed with Clarkson.
Boys are gross!
