Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner share three children together. By all accounts, they seem to be very dedicated to the well-being of their kids as they co-parent. When their first daughter was born, though, Affleck joked that he shouldn’t be offering anyone parenting advice.
He explained that Garner didn’t seem to trust him to do even the simplest of tasks. Ben Affleck said Jennifer Garner didn’t seem to trust him with their baby In a press conference for Affleck’s 2006 film Hollywoodland , one reporter asked the actor if he had any advice to offer new parents. He had recently become a father for the first time.
“I am not the person to come to for advice. ..
. I’ll tell you a quick anecdote. Two days ago my wife had to go to work,” ” he told IGN , adding “I was there.
I was taking care of the baby. I was trying to make sure everything was going to be okay.” As Garner prepared to walk out the door, she asked Affleck if he could handle feeding their daughter.
“She said, ‘Okay, I’m running out,’ she gave me the baby,” he recalled. “She said, ‘Okay, you know how to feed her with the solid food?’ I said, ‘Yes, I know how to feed her.’ She said, ‘You take the peaches, you stir that up and you put that in with a little oatmeal and then put that in with a little bit of the crushed pears, and you mix that up,’ and then she looked at me and said, in all seriousness, ‘Is this too complicated?’” Affleck joked that this anecdote should make .