Julia Roberts gave a rare insight into her and husband Daniel Moder’s “strict” parenting style of raising three children.
“I think they were, for sure, some of the last kids in their peer groups to get phones and stuff like that,” the “Pretty Woman” actress told 72 Magazine of her twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, both 20, and son Henry, 18, per Us Weekly.
“When they were younger, certainly, Danny and I would have been considered some of the stricter parents. Not like we’re laying down the law, but these are the rules, and they don’t change. Here’s the boundary of your life, and it does not shift,” she added.
“You don’t ask me and get an answer, and then go ask dad and get a different answer. That doesn’t happen. It will never happen.”
Roberts, 57, said her and Moder’s parenting style “creates the stability” that allows her children “to feel secure because you know there is this fixed world of love and safety that exists unconditionally.”
Two years after the “Leave the World Behind” star and the cameraman, 56, tied the knot, they welcomed daughter Hazel and son Phinnaeus in November 2004.
Three years later, the couple had Henry in June 2007.
Roberts and Moder attempted to keep their kids’ lives as private as possible throughout their childhood.
“We try to protect our kids,” she told USA Today in 2013. “We just want to have our family life and not have that intruded upon.”
In 2023, the “Erin Brockovich” actress revealed she and Moder were teaching their children to rely less on technology.
“So for us, we just had sort of simple rules where we had a charging station where everyone’s phones go when you get home. There’s no phones at the table, certainly,” she shared on “Today” at the time.
And in an interview with Extra, she quipped that being stuck at home “with kids and no devices” actually “sounds like a good time” to her.
“I think of a family coming together at the end of the day, and you actually have things to talk about at dinner because you haven’t been in contact all day long a hundred times … or a busy signal,” the Oscar winner shared.
