Erin Napier Celebrates Mother’s Day with Daughters: ‘[I Want to] Savor Every Drop’
By Movieguide® Contributor
After Mother’s Day celebrations with her daughters, Erin Napier reminded her fans to savor the sweet moments with their kids and remember how quickly life goes by.
“My first Muffins with Mom at school,” Napier posted on Instagram. “My gosh what a privilege to be someone’s home, mama, comfort. Between this and cuddles from Mae this morning who told me, ‘you my bess fren,’ feeling like my heart could burst. For you mamas coming up on our special day and feeling so tired and like you don’t know what you’re doing: it’s all of us. 20 years from today we will miss this incredibly difficult and sweet season, so let’s savor every drop.”
Erin and her husband, Ben, share two daughters, Helen and Mae. While Erin and Ben are known for their work on HGTV, the two have shared many times the value they put on family and the ways that they place their kids above their work.
Recently, Erin teased a new project supporting parents, who like themselves, plan to keep their kids off of social media. While she was put on blast by some fans, she was adamant about protecting her kids by prohibiting them from social media.
Movieguide® previously reported:
HGTV star Erin Napier is responding to her critics after teasing a project encouraging parents who are keeping their kids off of social media.
“Alright y’all, I’m up to something,” she said during her project teaser. “I can’t tell you about it yet, but I can tell you that I’m looking for parents who are keeping their kids social media free through high school and junior high too.”
While many fans were supportive of Napier’s upcoming project, some were quick to criticize and expose flaws they saw with the plan.
“What happens after high school if they haven’t learned how to use [social media] responsibly before they leave home? This makes sense before they become teenagers but I think it gets more complicated after that,” one fan said.
Napier responded directly, “what happens when they encounter alcohol? Hopefully you’ve taught them how to use it correctly.”
Another fan was more antagonistic, saying, “last I checked social media isn’t illegal for under 21,” adding that they felt Napier was being “very defensive about the topic.”
“You didn’t want me to reply to your comment? I’m not defensive,” Napier responded. “I believe social media should be available to adults who are emotionally mature enough to handle it. Sort of like driving a car or buying alcohol. A reasonable comparison I think.”
This is not Napier’s first time expressing her views about prohibiting her kids from social media until they are old enough. She believes it is not healthy for them to use because of the ways it can distort their image of themselves along with the other negative impacts that studies have found social media can have on adolescents.
Napier also takes care to keep her kids out of the limelight on her own social media posts. Napier and her husband are both thankful that social media was not around when they were kids and would not have wanted their parents to post pictures of them when they were growing up.
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