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Nick Cannonis tackling tough discussions with his kids.
Appearing onThe Language of Love with Dr. Laura Berman, the father of 12 discussed his vision for his family and communicating with each of his kids about their unconventional blended family.
“In your dream world, regardless of whether you’re romantically involved or not romantically involved with the mothers, all your children will know each other. All of your children will come together, go on trips together or outings together,” Dr. Berman asked Cannon, 42.
“Yes,” he confirmed. “They’re all Cannons. They’ll probably go to the same schools and all that.”
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Cannon shared that has yet to get all of his kids together because “as much as that may be a wish of mine, I’ve got to respect that’s not a wish of everyone’s.”
“I think that we’ll get there. One of the things I’ve witnessed from some of my elders in the game, once the children get of age to make their own decisions, it’ll happen,” theWild N' Outhost, explained.
Noting he’s already had some of the hard conversations with 12-year-old twinsMonroe and Moroccan, he likes to keep dialogue “very open” between himself and the tweens.
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Cannon also revealed he’s in conversation withBrittany Bell— with whom he shares daughterPowerful Queen, 2½, and sons Rise Messiah, 9 months, andGolden Sagon, 6 — about filling in their oldest about the scope of Cannon’s family tree.
“I think right now is the time to start having, and this has been a family debate, about when to have the full and honest discussion with the six-year-oldbecause he’s a genius,” he said.
“I think he’s kind ofalready figured it out. He knows he has other siblings. Even within his own house, he’s not an only child,” Cannon continued. “He knows abouthis older siblings. He’s been around the younger ones. He’s been around them, just nobody talks about it. It’s not like, ‘This is your brother or your sister.'”
“And I think the school that he’s in, he’s on the internet. He knows his dad is known for having a lot of kids,” he noted, though he said the second grader has never asked.
“The time is now before another kid at the school says [something],” he suggested. “But I think it’s not going to be a difficult conversation.”
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Asked what he would tell him that he feels is age-appropriate, Cannon said, “You know daddy already has a lot of kids. And you’re special, I appreciate our bond, but I also have other relationships that have produced other children that I love dearly as well.”
“And I’d ask him how he feels about it,” the dad said. “I had to have that conversation with my 12-year-olds. Part of it was like ‘yay’ but it was also like ‘well what about me?'”
Cannon recalled Monroe asking, “You love me the most right?”
He conceded, “You aremy firstborn, you are unique.”
“You find something that you can have that’s just theirs. I think every child wants that,” he explained. “But I also believe there’s going to be some feelings they don’t even share with me right away. ‘I wish I would have had a different scenario or different upbringing’ And when those things are brought up, we deal with them.”
Additionally, he’s dad to two children with Alyssa Scott: sonZen— whodiedat 5 months old in December 2021 after being diagnosed with brain cancer — and daughterHalo Marie, 6 months.
source: people.com
