Kelly Clarkson Reveals Her Mom Trick to Getting Her Son to Brush His Teeth

Kelly Clarkson and Jessica Biel are sharing a few parenting methods.

During the Thursday, May 29, episode of Clarkson’s eponymous daylight hours communicate display, the 2 moms swapped parenting pointers. While Biel, 43, confessed that she infrequently eats within the bathe to avoid wasting time, Clarkson, additionally 43, printed a equivalent tip she gave to her son, Remington “Remy” Alexander, 9.

Clarkson stocks Remy and daughter River Rose, 10, with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock. Meanwhile, Biel stocks sons Silas, 10, and Phineas, 4, with husband Justin Timberlake.

“So I have a boy and a girl. And my boy and I have a real hard time,” Clarkson started, sooner than interrupting herself to mention, “He’s gonna hate me saying this, I don’t care, because maybe it’ll shame him into doing it.”

She sooner or later printed, “But he just refuses to brush his teeth.” 

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“It’s like a thing, and so finally, I was like, ‘Hey, let’s make a fun thing of it.’ So I was in the shower, I’m like, ‘Just take your toothbrush and your toothpaste in the shower. You can be messy. You can do whatever,’ ” she recalled.

“So that works,” the Grammy winner continued. “So now he’s brushing his teeth, if you need help,” she mentioned, sooner than the target market gave Clarkson a spherical of applause.

“I don’t know what it’s about boys. They don’t wanna brush,” Clarkson mentioned. “My girl is always like, ‘Oh yeah, of course, I did that.’ Like I’m an idiot that I asked her.”

“And then my son, he’s just like, ‘Yeah, I totally did.’ And I’m like, ‘You’re lying. Let me smell your breath.’ ” Biel then chimed in to agree, “Yeah, no, for sure.”

Clarkson has featured her youngsters at the display and often talks to her visitors about them. In March 2025, she commemorated her motherhood adventure by means of celebrating the 1,000th episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show.

A montage of clips from instances they seemed at the display over time performed on the finish of the episode, making Clarkson emotional.

“River and Remy, I really like you such a lot. I’m so pleased with you each,” she mentioned. “They’re just fearless and very bold. They’re more like me as an adult, not what I was like as a child, so they talk a lot too. You are what I’m liking today, my little ones, and every day I love them so much.”