Jelena Djokovic has offered an honest view on her approach to parenting.
Jelena added that she was worried about striking the right balance between protecting her children and giving them space to grow, admitting that she will not know if she has been successful until they begin to navigate life as adults.
“I haven’t taken the exam for achieving balance in parenting yet, so I’m not sure if I passed or failed it,” she said. “They say that test comes when children grow up and when their time for independence comes.
“We will see how it will be. I think that today it is very difficult to find a balance in anything because society cultivates the mantra ‘never enough, more more more’ and then you see a lot of exaggeration in everything.”
Their children have protested it, claiming they are the only ones at school without their own phones. Djokovic, however, says the ban is intended to teach them about not following the herd mentality.
“My children still don’t have a cell phone, my wife and I argue,” he said. “They complain: ‘At school everyone has one except us’. It’s not easy and this is reflected on other levels as well.
“If everyone does something, the herd behaves like this, you have to follow them. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that. This is where I think we differ from others, because we are stubborn and active.”
