*Sandra Bullock joked about being an overprotective mom to her two adopted children as they grow older in a chaotic society.
The actress interviews her pal Jennifer Aniston for the new issue of Interview magazine, and during their candid discussion, the duo dish about modern parenting struggles and sending their kids to college.
“Turning on the television, listening to the news, reading the paper — that can make me really sad and really angry,” Aniston says. “The division that’s been taking place. The complete chaos that’s existing. When people show greed and bad behavior and a lack of gratitude. It’s so hard to put this in an eloquent way. When you see people behaving badly and hurting other people, that makes me very angry. And abuse of animals, obviously.”
Bullock then opens up about her concerns raising 10-year-old son, Louis, and 7-year-old daughter, Laila, in such a world, per etonline.com.
“I look at everyone who is trying to raise kids, and I go, ‘How are we supposed to raise children outside of a bubble? And, show them the difference between right and wrong, and what kindness looks like, when it’s really hard to find it with all the noise on a screen?’” she says. “Screens are everywhere.”
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Aniston responds, “You can protect your children as much as possible, but they’re eventually going to become an 18-year old and go out in the world and they’re going to see all of it.”
“Not my kids,” Bullock says. “I gave them the places where they can go to college because that’s where Mommy feels comfortable living. I said, ‘You can go to these three colleges because I’m going to buy an apartment down the street.’”
“You’re actually building a college at the bottom of the hill right now,” Aniston says in response. “By the time Louis and Laila are at the right ages, it’ll be: ‘I’ll just drive you there every single day. We can even walk and make it a physical experience.’”
Bullock then jokes that she can tell her children, “Jen says we need to get in 20,000 steps a day,” before walking them to college.
“I know you and I like to stay at home and be surrounded by the things that we’ve cultivated that are safe,” Bullock says to Aniston. “It’s scary entering the world, but when we do, we feel good and we’re glad we did it. But the dread of being around people, I need to get better with that.”
In December, Bullock opened up to ET about becoming a mother later in life.
“I would have been pregnant or knocked up at 17, and my mother knew that and she kept me under lock and key,” Bullock said at the time. “I wanted to be a mom at a very young age, so I kind of felt the drive and the desire to.”
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