Cate Blanchett Says Homeschooling Her Daughter Edith, 7, Has Been ‘Traumatic’: ‘There Was No Respect There’
etcanada.comCate Blanchett has had quite the lockdown experience as a mother of four. The actress spoke about home-schooling on Tuesday’s “The Project”, calling it “traumatic” when dealing with her seven-year-old daughter Edith.
Blanchett told host Lisa Wilkinson, “You know, I was amazing for two weeks. I was blitzing it. “And then all of a sudden my — you know, my older kids were fine, they would sort of self-direct — but I had to do my seven-year-old, and I realized that I couldn’t even teach her Grade 1 math. “She sniffed that out after 14 days, and I was a dead duck.
There was no respect there.” READ MORE: Cate Blanchett Says She Used Her Own ‘Set Of Teeth And Wig From A Previous Movie’ For Extreme Transformation On ‘Don’t Look Up’ The “Carol” star went on, “I had to dress up as her teacher, I had to put on her teacher’s voice, and she wouldn’t start the classes until we had a full array of stuffed animals — all of which had the names of the people in her class. “It felt like some weird cross between ‘The Muppets’ and ‘MasterClass’.
It was quite traumatic.” READ MORE: Cate Blanchett Says A Psychic Predicted Something Major About Her Family Blanchett also shares sons Dashiell, 20, Roman, 17, and Ignatius, 13, with husband Andrew Upton.
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