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- Kailyn Lowry is getting candid about the help she receives for her seven kids
- The proud mom also asked her followers to “stop discrediting” her own parenting
- Lowry addressed the topics in a video posted to her TikTok
Kailyn Lowry is asking her followers to stop discrediting her parenting.
The podcaster, 33, posted a video on her TikTok on Sunday, Sept. 7, in which she pushed back after a user commented that they’re “pretty sure she has help with the kids.” Lowry, who is a mom of seven, shared that her fans “love to say that” she doesn’t raise her kids herself.
“Y’all love to say that I don’t raise my kids. I have childcare, yes. I have help from 8 to 4, Monday through Friday. These are traditional working hours,” Lowry explained. “A lot of people put their kids in daycare from 9 to 5, a lot of people have babysitters that they pay for. I do the same thing.”
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The proud mom said she doesn’t have a live-in nanny, or a round-the-clock nanny.
“After 4 o’clock, if I needed a baby sitter, I would have to pay for that. So if you guys could kindly stop discrediting what I do for my kids, that would be great,” Lowry said. “On the other side of that, I am blessed to have in-home childcare. Not everyone can afford to have that.”
“And so with that being said, yes, I do have help, no matter which way you cut it. But if you guys could just stop discrediting what I do, that would be fantastic,” she continued. “And I’m going to let this run for one minute, just so I can collect my coin so I can pay for the childcare, thank you so much.”
Lowry shares twins, Verse and Valley, 21 months, and a 2-year-old son, Rio, with Elijah Scott.
She is also mom to Lux and Creed, now 7½ and 4½, whom she shares with ex Chris Lopez; son Lincoln, 11, whom she shares with ex-husband Javi Marroquin; and son Elliott, 15, whom she shares with ex Jo Rivera.
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This past June, Lowry appeared on Lala Kent’s podcast Give Them Lala and was asked by the Vanderpump Rules alum how she approaches co-parenting her kids.
Asked by Kent if she co-parents her kids differently, Lowry said she “1000%” does.
“Because what I know about Jo and his parenting style and what I know about Javi and his parenting style, I think they’re all very different,” the mom of seven said of her exes.
“It’s the child and the other co-parent because if you co-parent a certain [way] or discipline or do something that the other parent doesn’t like, that could put you in a whole other situation that you didn’t even [know], you never even thought of,” she continued.
“And so, I think that is a really good point to be made that the kids need to be parented, but also you’re [a] co-parent, which is sort of difficult. And my oldest, I don’t talk to his dad about anything.”
