Teamwork makes the dream work. Lake Bell spoke exclusively to Us Weekly about parenting amid her divorce — revealing her best tip.“I think great respect and communication is what is the key to coparenting,” the star, 43, told Us while promoting her new movie Summering.In the coming-of-age film, Bell plays a single mom who won’t talk to her daughter about her father’s absence.
In real-life, the actress says she’s “really tight” with ex-husband James Campbell, with whom she shares daughter Nova, 7, and son Ozgood, 5.
The pair announced their divorce in October 2020, and Bell has since moved on with Chris Rock. The kids, however, always come first.The New York native explained that she and Campbell, 45, never think they’re done with working on their relationship as parents. “[We can] never think, ‘Oh, we had that one conversation that was good, and therefore, now we’re good for the rest of our lives.’ It’s an evolution, you know?” she said. “It’s a constant, it’s any rapport, but it’s, like, the most important rapport of my life.
It’s for our children’s sake.”Bell is a busy working mom. In addition to starring in Summering, she is nominated for an Emmy Award after directing episodes of Hulu’s Pam & Tommy; she voices Poison Ivy opposite Kaley Cuoco on HBO Max’s Harley Quinn; and her five-hour audiobook, Inside Voice: My Obsession With How We Sound, is set to come out in November.“The biggest challenge for me is slowing down … Everything in our society — and culture even — is kind of at a pace and parenting always succeeds more when you slow the f–k down,” she told Us exclusively.“My practice is to slow down, and when we slow down, we become more aware and we’re available to really listen and really digest and then to react
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