Carolyn Robertson
posted in CelebritiesOops!
Having successfully raised two children into adulthood - Travis, 26, is a musician while Sosie, 23, is an actress - Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick seem to have parenting all figured out.
That hasn't always been the case, though.
The 56-year-old Cop Care actor recently admitted that they made a pretty big mistake right after their son was born in 1998: They locked their brand new baby in the car!
“When my son was born we took him back from the hospital. We locked a newborn in the car with the keys in the car and the motor running,” Kevin recalls. “A guy from the garage put his fist through the window and broke in because my wife and I were obviously panicked. My publicist is laughing at me. We were new parents. You know, it was hard.”
I can absolutely see how something like that could happen. Few experiences are quite as mind-blowing as that moment you leave the hospital with your new baby. It's one thing when you have a team of trained professionals to back you up, but as soon as you're on your own with that tiny, crying newborn it all suddenly gets real.
Like most parents, though, Kevin and Kyra soon found their footing. Listen to this great advice he offered up during an episode of his friend Hank Azaria's web series, "Fatherhood."
"You know, if you get your ass kicked or you get your heart broken... it's a horrible thing, as a parent, to experience your child going through that," Kevin mused. "[But] to completely shelter them from those life experiences is ultimately criminal. It's not giving them the skills to survive."
Wise words indeed.
Did you make any "rookie" mistakes with your first baby?
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