Peter Andre, who has two children with Katie Price and three with wife Emily MacDonagh, has addressed a “very important” aspect of parenting he has had to deal with over his years of being a father
Peter Andre has addressed a “very important” aspect of parenting he has had to deal with over the years. The Mysterious Girl singer, who was initially married to Katie Price and has Junior, 20, and Princess, 18 with her, has been married to Emily MacDonagh for over a decade and has Millie, 12, Theo, nine and two-year-old Belle with her.
The former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! star had noticed that Gogglebox legend Scarlett Moffatt, who is expecting her second child with fiancé Scott Dobinson, had spoken out about the topic of “favouritism” when the little one arrives, and explained how he and Emily had managed to get around that with their own brood.
Writing in his new! magazine column, he said: “Scarlett Moffatt is currently expecting her second child and while she is excited for her two-year-old son to have a brother, she’s determined to avoid any sort of favouritism when the new baby arrives.
“That is a very important thing. I love all my kids equally but it’s really difficult when you have to focus on a new baby.
“Emily and I approached this by taking turns – if one focused on the baby, the other would focus on the others and then we’d swap.
“We never wanted our children to feel they weren’t as important in those moments. I’ll never forget something mum said when I was a kid and we asked her to pick her favourite child.
“She said ‘Which one of my fingers would hurt the least to cut off?’ She was trying to say that the pain would be equal – and that is the same with love.”
Scarlett, who is expecting a baby boy, recently explained that she had turned to social media in an attempt to find out how to tackle the issue of favouritism when there is a new baby in the house.
She told OK!: “One thing I just love about Jude is how loving he is. But I do have a feeling that at some point he’s going to ask, ‘When is the baby going back?’
“How do you explain to a little toddler that this new baby is going to be sticking around? I just have to make sure he doesn’t feel left out. I’m watching a lot of TikToks on how to stop him from feeling like that!”
Towards the end of last year, former Queen of the Jungle Scarlett, filmed I’m A Celebrity…South Africa and openly talked about her fertility struggles with the camp, telling her co-stars how she learnt she was pregnant just hours before their first IVF appointment after struggling to conceive for years.
The reality star revealed she and partner Scott had tried for four years before she got pregnant with Jude, revealing: “And then the day we found out I was pregnant, the day after we were going to a fertility clinic.”
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