Ben Affleck is ensuring his three youngsters be taught the worth of working for a paycheck.
The Oscar-winner defined why he’s having his three kids maintain down “classic teenager” jobs whereas talking to Jenna Bush Hager and Andy Cohen whereas selling his new movie “The Accountant 2” on Tuesday’s episode of “Today with Jenna & Friends.”
“You love your kids. You want to give them everything and do everything for them,” stated Affleck, who added that by not instructing them to earn the issues that they need, you “definitely do them a disservice.”
The subject got here up because the group mentioned a viral video of the star’s 13-year-old son, Samuel Affleck, trying out a pair of very expensive kicks throughout a sneaker conference final month.
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Affleck stated he rapidly shut down the dialog when his son requested if he might snag a pair of highly-collectable Dior Air Jordan 1s.
“These sneakers are $6,000, what are you talking about?” he recalled himself saying. “What are you gonna do, mow lawns? You got $6,000?”
“He was like, ‘We have the money,’” the “Gone Girl” star remembered. “I was like, ‘I have the money! You’re broke.’”
Requested if his two older youngsters, Violet, 19, and Seraphina, 16, had methods to earn pocket cash, Affleck instructed the hosts, “In fact, one just got a job, the kind of classic teenager working a shop job.”
“My older one in college is working and trying to get an internship for the summer,” he stated of his and ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s firstborn, who’s at the moment finding out at Yale.
Circling again to his youngest, Affleck stated he instructed his son, “Well, if you want [the shoes], you can work 1,000 hours.”
“Minimum wage,” he added. “And once you work 1,000 hours, you may not want to spend that on a pair of sneakers.”
Hearken to Affleck speak about his son’s sneaker saga beneath:
