Chelsea Clinton’s Rare and Candid Quotes About Parenting Her 3 Kids With Husband Marc Mezvinsky

On Expanding the Family

In 2022, Chelsea penned the book Welcome to the Big Kids Club:What Every Older Sibling Needs to Know! She explained that she was inspired to write the book after Jasper was born.

“Our first two were 4 and 3 and had so many questions about the new baby,” Chelsea said on CBS Mornings in September 2022. “And still the conversation just continued after, you know, Jasper was home. I finally thought: ‘We can’t be the only family who are having these conversations.'”

On Hillary’s Grandparenting Style

When it comes to parenting, the Arkansas native learned a lot from her mother, who she called a “very hands on” grandparent.

“Sometimes I’m like, ‘thank you so much,’ sometimes I’m like ‘that was circa 1980,'” Chelsea admitted.

On Making Adjustments

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chelsea opened up about adjusting to the new normal when it came to her kids’ schooling.

“[There are times when] I’m on my Zoom and Aidan’s science class is crashing and then I’m off my Zoom rushing to fix the science class,” she told People in October 2020. “And then I can’t stay with him to make sure he gets back on the science class. Then I’m running back into the next room to get back on my Zoom and then I feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not doing either thing very well at the moment, but hopefully doing each as best as I can.'”

On Summer Memories

In the summer of 2020, Chelsea and her family “spent all summer” with Bill and Hilary.

“It was really wonderful for our kids to have that time with their grandparents — especially for Charlotte and Aidan to be with my parents in the season from late spring really through the whole summer, where they were able to plant a garden together and tend a garden together and pick and harvest the food together and eat the food together and play so many games,” Chelsea shared. “I was really grateful for that time.”

On Charlotte’s Hobby

Chelsea revealed her daughter was very into watching gymnastics.

“Charlotte is obsessed with Simone Biles and loves watching clips of her, thinks she can fly — which I agree, it isn’t too far off — and just is full of such awe and wonder,” the She Persisted author explained. “She’s like, ‘Mom, Simone started gymnastics when she was 6.’ And I say, ‘I know.’ And she’s like, ‘I could do that.'”

“And I say, ‘Well, maybe, if you work really hard,’ thinking, ‘Of course you’re probably not going to be the greatest gymnast of all time, but you know what? Maybe you are! Who knows? And you certainly won’t be if you don’t try and you don’t persist.'”

On Breast-Feeding

Chelsea said that when she was breast-feeding her children, she would make it known during meetings that she would have to stop and tend to the child.

“I would say ‘I really have to end on time because I have to feed my child in the next room’ or, ‘I have to go pump,'” she revealed at a panel for Oula in March 2023. “The reactions were across the whole spectrum. I had people say, ‘Thank you so much for telling me that,’ and others would [gasp] and say, ‘You didn’t need to tell me that!’”

“There’s nothing to be ashamed of here,” she added. “I was just explaining as if I had to go to another meeting, or I had to get to a doctors appointment or whatever else you see as a valid set of explanations for why we need to end on time.”