{"id":49061,"date":"2026-04-14T04:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/scarlett-johansson-says-hitting-75-as-a-parent-means-youre-winning\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:21:24","slug":"scarlett-johansson-says-hitting-75-as-a-parent-means-youre-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/scarlett-johansson-says-hitting-75-as-a-parent-means-youre-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson says hitting 75% as a parent means &#8216;you&#8217;re winning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69dda43c899c9d3be0510349?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Scarlett Johansson.\"\/><figcaption>Scarlett Johansson says having her first kid was a &quot;big turning point&quot; in her life.<\/p>\n<p>JC Olivera\/Variety via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Scarlett Johansson, 41, says good parenting is about doing your best, not being perfect.<\/li>\n<li>She said someone once told her that being successful as a parent &quot;75% of the time&quot; is enough.<\/li>\n<li>She also doesn&#039;t believe in work-life balance because there&#039;s often &quot;a deficit in some area&quot; of her life, she said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scarlett Johansson, 41, says being a good parent doesn&#039;t mean getting everything right.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning, the actor said having her first kid was a &quot;big turning point&quot; that made her realize she couldn&#039;t &quot;control anything.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everything changes all the time, and I found that to be liberating. And it affected how I approached the work that I did,&quot; Johansson said.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson has two children: daughter Rose, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and son Cosmo with her husband, Colin Jost.<\/p>\n<p>She added that her definition of success as a parent is doing her best, even when her choices aren&#039;t popular.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Somebody once told me, they were like, &#039;If you&#039;re successful as a parent like 75% of the time, that&#039;s good.&#039; You know, like if you&#039;re doing 75% of it, like, &#039;right&#039; or whatever, then you&#039;re winning. Which is probably true,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>That perspective also shapes how she approaches the other parts of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson said work-life balance isn&#039;t really possible, and coming to terms with that is the &quot;first step&quot; to managing all her responsibilities. She added that there&#039;s often &quot;a deficit in some area&quot; of her life.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ve learned to be more kind to myself in that way. Like, you can&#039;t do all of these things all the time, and so, you know, there&#039;s just like, is it good enough?&quot; Johansson said.<\/p>\n<p>Other Hollywood moms have also spoken about the challenge of balancing it all.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Parents in September, &quot;Grey&#039;s Anatomy&quot; actor Camilla Luddington said she accepts that there is &quot;no balance&quot; when it comes to managing work and kids.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To take the pressure off, I&#039;ll be like, &#039;You know what? Today I&#039;m probably going to be better at my job than I am at parenting because I&#039;m on set all day. But tomorrow I&#039;m off and I can be a better parent,&#039;&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>During an October appearance on &quot;Call Her Daddy,&quot; Shonda Rhimes said it was a &quot;relief&quot; to learn she could only do so much at once as a working mom.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s never going to happen. You&#039;re never going to feel amazing at both. It&#039;s always going to be a little bit, you know, shaky. So let it be shaky,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Johansson says having her first kid was a &quot;big turning point&quot; in her life. JC Olivera\/Variety via Getty Images Scarlett Johansson, 41, says good parenting is about doing your best, not being perfect. She said someone once told her that being successful as a parent &quot;75% of the time&quot; is enough. 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