{"id":39854,"date":"2025-12-01T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/alicia-keys-says-a-realization-about-her-own-triggers-shaped-the-way-she-parents\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:11:32","slug":"alicia-keys-says-a-realization-about-her-own-triggers-shaped-the-way-she-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/alicia-keys-says-a-realization-about-her-own-triggers-shaped-the-way-she-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Keys says a realization about her &#8216;own triggers&#8217; shaped the way she parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/692cfd11abd5e944effbc35d?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Alicia Keys.\"\/><figcaption>Alicia Keys says being a mother has taught her a lot about herself.<\/p>\n<p>Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Alicia Keys says her kids help her recognize and heal her own emotional triggers.<\/li>\n<li>While parents often project worries onto kids, the singer said it&#039;s crucial to know when to step back.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I think that&#039;s why they&#039;re the most beautiful teachers because they bring to light what we have to see in ourselves,&quot; she said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alicia Keys, 44, says having kids has taught her some lessons about herself.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Sunday&#039;s episode of &quot;The Drew Barrymore Show,&quot; Keys spoke about being a mother and how it has made her more introspective.<\/p>\n<p>When host Drew Barrymore said that she&#039;s the type to &quot;care myself to death&quot; when it comes to parenting and asked Keys for advice, Keys said the goal is to embrace the experience.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You have your instinct, and you know what you feel. And I think we also do have to learn how to separate ourselves from them, because I think that&#039;s a big point that you&#039;re bringing up,&quot; Keys told Barrymore.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;Empire State of Mind&quot; singer and her husband, Swizz Beatz, have a blended family of five kids, three of whom are from his previous relationships.<\/p>\n<p>While it might be common for parents to project their worries onto their kids, Keys said it&#039;s important to recognize when to step back.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Like, naturally, we do have our own triggers, and we do have our own histories and things that we&#039;re working through,&quot; Keys said. &quot;And so knowing that they&#039;re so pure, you know, knowing that they are a clean slate and a pureness, we can almost take a step and say, &#039;Hold on, that&#039;s mine. That&#039;s not theirs. Let me just take a breather.&#039;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The singer added that it might be a &quot;beautiful way&quot; for parents to become conscious of unresolved issues they&#039;re personally working through.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s just like these things, they bring up things in you, and you&#039;re like, &#039;Ah, wait a minute. Is that me, though? It&#039;s probably me,&#039;&quot; Keys said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think that&#039;s why they&#039;re the most beautiful teachers because they bring to light what we have to see in ourselves,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Bustle in 2021, Keys said that becoming a mother is &quot;the reason I came into myself.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know for sure that prior to it, I still didn&#039;t know myself. I still didn&#039;t understand my own worth and importance,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>That same introspection is something she also tries to pass on to her kids.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Keys told People that she encourages her kids to share their thoughts and trust their own intuition.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you don&#039;t know what you think or what you feel, it&#039;s going to be hard for you. I feel like I&#039;ve spent a lot of time not fully understanding or not trusting what I felt, and so I want to teach them to trust their instincts.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Keys says being a mother has taught her a lot about herself. Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic Alicia Keys says her kids help her recognize and heal her own emotional triggers. While parents often project worries onto kids, the singer said it&#039;s crucial to know when to step back. &quot;I think that&#039;s why they&#039;re the most beautiful teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}