Raising her kids right. Carrie Underwood is currently a judge on this season of “American Idol,” in her second year with this gig, alongside veteran judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie.
She’s taken some heat this season, but it certainly hasn’t stopped her form giving the constructive feedback contestants need to hear, and when she’s not behind the table at her alma mater, so to speak, where she started her very successful country music career back in 2005, Carrie is a wife to former NHL player Mike Fisher, and mom to two young boys, Isaiah and Jacob.
They live on a farm outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and Carrie has made it a point to keep them grounded and give them as normal of a childhood as possible. During an interview for a SiriusXM Front Row hosted by Nicole Ryan, Ryan Sampson and Stanley T form SiriusXM Hits 1’s The Morning Mash Up, Carrie talked about raising her kids on a farm and how different that life is compared to her life on the road and performing on stage night after night.
She explained that she wants them to know that life isn’t really “real,” and even when she took them on tour, she knows they way things got handed to them wasn’t real and she wanted them to know that. Day to day, she is very involved in their lives, and they have a routine similar to a lot of families with young kids, which includes getting up early, making breakfast, packing lunches and getting everyone out the door to school:
“Well, there was a definite—you know, I went from living on a farm to being on stage in front of a ton of people and, you know, traveling and we’re in a different city every day and I learned very quickly that this is not real life. It’s not real life. It’s so wonderful. I love performing. I love singing. I love writing. I love being creative.
Singing is definitely one of my happy places, but the world that that takes you to is just not real, and more than anything, for my family, I want them to know that. It was hard even taking my kids on tour sometimes because every hotel we’d go to, like they’d just have toys. People would just give them things and I’m like, ‘This just isn’t real,’ so it’s important for me that home is just way different than this, you know, and I feel like we have definitely established that, but yeah.
I mean, my kids see me, you know, we get up, we take them to school, we’re making breakfast, packing lunches, like we eat dinner at least five nights a week at the dinner table, and it’s something I cooked. I don’t know if it’s good or not, but we ain’t starving.”
It’s going to serve them well as they get older, and I have to imagine they’ll appreciate the kind of childhood their mom gave them, considering she’s a global superstar and they could just have anything handed to them whenever they want in reality.
Carrie seems like a great mom, and she’s clearly making a lot of effort to keep her kids as grounded as she can, which is impressive and I have no doubt she has them out their doing farm chores and helping with things like that too.
You can watch the full video below.
