Khloé Kardashian wasn’t about to let her daughter give up gymnastics over one cartwheel. True, who is eight, was frustrated because she couldn’t nail the move, and she kept comparing herself to her cousins, who seemed to be doing much better. So Khloé came up with a plan. She’d try a cartwheel herself, fully expecting to fail at it too.She told the story on an episode of her podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land, with actor Goldie Hawn as her guest. They were discussing parenting and kids’ confidence, and Khloé described how her own clumsy attempt ended up changing True’s mind.
Why did True Thompson want to quit gymnastics?
According to Khloé Kardashian, True was thinking about giving up because her cousins could do the cartwheel better than she could. It was really getting to her, especially watching the other kids manage something she was stuck on.So Khloé said she’d go to gymnastics and try as well. She wanted True to see that even grown-ups can’t do everything, and that nothing is embarrassing about that. Here’s how she remembered putting it to her daughter: “Girl, do you want to? Okay. I’m going to go to gymnastics with you. I’m going to do a cartwheel because I can’t do one. And I’m going to show her that an adult can’t do this. And you’re going to be fine.”
Khloé Kardashian’s cartwheel attempt made True more confident
She did go through with it, and it sounds like it didn’t go to plan. She was laughing about it on the podcast, saying, “So I did a cartwheel the best I could. It was silly. I looked ridiculous.”That was enough to make True feel better about her own effort. Watching her mum struggle with the same move made her realise she wasn’t as bad at it as she’d thought.And it worked. Khloé Kardashian said True kept going with gymnastics for another three years after that. In her words: “She now has been in gymnastics three years longer because she saw how ridiculous I looked and she looked way better than me. So she has all this confidence.”
Khloé Kardashian on why parents should let children see them fail
The chat with Goldie Hawn moved on to why parents don’t need to look perfect in front of their children. Khloé Kardashian thinks kids should see adults mess up and, just as importantly, see what they do next. She said, “It’s so important, I think, for kids to know, to see how adults trip or fail a little bit. Like, how do we handle that?”The gymnastics story is a pretty good example. She didn’t give True another pep talk about trying harder. She just made herself the example, couldn’t do the cartwheel either, and was happy to laugh at herself about it.
Khloé Kardashian says daughter True won’t get social media anytime soon
Khloé Kardashian also talked about the rules she’s set around phones and social media. True is eight and doesn’t have a phone, and Khloé has no plans to let her on social media any time soon. “My daughter’s only eight, but she’s not getting social media for a very long time. She doesn’t even have a phone,” she said.She also sounded a bit baffled by how young some kids are when they get their first phone. “Kids these days have phones at eight. I’m like, who are you calling? I don’t understand,” she added.Khloé shares True and her four-year-old son, Tatum Thompson, with her ex Tristan Thompson. She’s talked about different parts of raising the two of them before, and this time it was one small moment from True’s gymnastics classes that came up.Khloé didn’t get the cartwheel, but True got something out of watching her try. She stuck with gymnastics, and her mum came away with a pretty funny story.