Jennifer Garner Says She's a Strict Mom: 'No Is No'

ABC/Randy Holmes(NEW YORK) — Jennifer Garner and her husband Ben Affleck may be A-list celebrities, but that doesn’t mean their kids get special treatment. Garner, a mother of three, says she works very hard to keep her kids grounded. 

“We’re so involved,” she tells US Weekly. “I just took a year and a half off of work and I’ve been home. You treat them like real kids. They have boundaries and they have rules and they throw fits.”

Such as? “Yesterday, we were at a bike store getting their bikes serviced and getting new helmets that fit and…my littlest one [3-year-old Samuel] saw something he wanted,” Garner says. “I had just said, ‘We’re not buying anything,’ and he threw a fit.  The people at the store said to me, ‘Please let us just give this to you’ because he was so unhappy. And I said, ‘I’m sorry that he’s throwing a fit in your store and you’re so sweet to want to give this to him. And thank you for asking me first. But he’s going to have to throw a fit.’ I said no. No is no.”

Garner and Affleck, who wed in 2005, are also parents to Violet, 9, and Seraphina, 6.

Garner said her children understand she’s pretty strict.  “I said to my girls, ‘What do I mean when I say no?'” Garner said. “And they were like, ‘She really means no!’ So you just have to do it. It’s not pretty. I don’t think that I’m always the best at it but I try my best to be consistent and for them to know what they can expect from me.”

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