The three are working together to co-parent Journey River, 7, Bodhi Ransom, 9, and Noah Shannon, 10
Brian Austin Green considers himself lucky to co-parent with Megan Fox.
Speaking of co-parenting in the last episode Elderly podcast, the couple discussed raising Green’s three children — Journey River, 7, Bodhi Ransom, 9, and Noah Shannon, who turns 11 later this month — with transformers actress, 37.
Green, 50, admits that “it takes work” to get to a good place in co-parenting, calling it a “concerted effort.”
“You can’t just stick with parenting. Parenting is about being on your toes and thinking, all day, trying to make the best decisions you can at times when you don’t know what the best decision will be. It’s all trial and error,” he shared.
“I’ve learned that having five children is different with each child because everyone is a different person,” Green continued. “You have to discover the methods that work best for that person and will serve them best. We have three children in the house who are about a year and a half apart and they have all been brought up pretty much the same way and couldn’t be more different from each other. They are absolutely different people.”
Green went on to praise Fox, saying that along with Sharna Burgess, the three “co-parent very well together.”
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Brian Austin Green says co-parenting with Megan Fox is going ‘really well’
“When we need to, we communicate very well, we are open to things. We don’t take things personally. My goal, and I think it’s her goal as well, is for the children to be in the healthiest environment they can be in,” he said.
“I’ve really realized and realized over the last five years that I think people are doing themselves a huge disservice by thinking they don’t want separation or divorce to affect their children because it will. It absolutely will affect you. The part you have control over is how it affects your children, whether it’s a positive experience and you work well with another person, or you make it a loving experience, or a very angry head – adversarial, constantly fighting,” Green noted.
Instead of the kids feeling “stuck in the middle,” the three focused on the fact that “it always has to be about the kids.”
Burgess — who shares son Zane Walker, 15 months, with Beverly Hills, 90210 alum — later recalled texting Fox to introduce herself, noting, “I think she really appreciated that she started out with openness.”
“I always tried to be neutral at the beginning of our relationship, not to have some preconceived idea of who she was before I met her. I just wanted to meet her in person and we let that happen,” Burgess explained. “I think we co-parent very well. Again, it’s always about the kids and what’s best for them. Sometimes we can do things together.”
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Green agreed that Burgess and Fox have a “wonderful relationship”, adding: “If they’re at school for an event, sometimes they’ll be in their little place talking for half an hour, all by themselves laughing and joking and having a great time.”
“She’s a great woman and she’s a part of raising these beautiful children and simply because she’s an ex, there’s no need for me to hold any grudge against her. They’ve had their experience and it’s got nothing to do with me. How it went down, what fell, that’s none of my business. What my job is to be a part of is to create a healthy, open, loving and respectful environment for these kids,” she said.
“Presentation is important and our language is always in this home about their mom is always beautiful and wonderful and we are happy because we have a great relationship. We are not trying to hide anything and what is so important is that we have made it a priority, for our interaction and a good pastime.”
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