“You are truly setting an example for them with every move you make, every word you say.”
While promoting his Amazon Prime series “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” Chris Pratt opened up about his life at home as a dad of four.
In a rare statement shared with E! News, Pratt described life as a dad of four as “beautiful chaos man.”
Pratt, 46, shares his oldest son, 12-year-old Jack with his ex-wife Anna Faris and his three youngest children, 4-year-old Lyla, 3-year-old Eloise, and 8-month-old Ford with his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger.
Pratt continued, saying his life is “absolutely hectic, and wonderful and I’m drinking up every moment I can when I'm able to be home. It’s been glorious, we feel very blessed.”
As for how he spends his time at home with his family, Pratt revealed that his daughters “are just now starting to swim in the pool with their goggles on, so I’m going down and teaching them how to dive down to the bottom of the pool and pick things up.”
“It’s a pool party,” he told E! News of the perfect summer day. “We got music playing, we’re grilling, and we’re swimming and soaking up the sun.”
The premiere of Pratt’s latest series comes after he talked about his and Schwarzenegger’s parenting styles with the “Today” show on Aug. 4.
“Ford, man, he’s doing great. He’s doing great,” he shared with the hosts. “Mama’s doing well. He’s the happiest baby. He’s got these giant, beautiful blue eyes. He’s so special. Everyone says that about their kids, most of them are wrong. I’m not wrong. This kid is very, very special.”
Pratt continued saying he’s “blessed” to be a father of four and described himself as “a very caring and strong-willed father,” adding that his parenting style “is very heavily influenced by how I was raised.”
“I was a very sensitive kid, but my dad was very tough and very strict,” Pratt explained to “Today”. “So I tend to be a little more mindful of the sensitivity in kids. So I’m not as tough and I’m not as strict.”
His wife however is the “rule enforcer,” calling their parenting styles “a nice balance.”
“I think as long as you’re present, you kinda can’t go wrong,” Pratt told “Today” of being a parent. “You’re gonna mess up. You’re not gonna get it right, but you were there, and I think that ends up being important to adults when they grow up and they look back on their childhood, is, ‘Hey, my dad was there, and that’s a good thing.’”
