Courteney Coxโs mini-me daughter Coco is all grown up! In the new issue of People magazine, as part of the annual Beautiful Issue, the Friends alum opens up about parenting her teenage daughter with ex-husband David Arquette.
โI want her to tell me everything, and she doesnโt want to tell me anything,โ Cox told People. โExactly the opposite of the childhood I had.โ
While Coco is your standard 13-year-old teen, she does consider mom a BFF.
โWe bicker, letโs be honest, but we love each other,โ the actress, 53, added. โWe laugh a lot, for sure. โฆ I would also describe it as, well, I am a 13-year-old girl, you are a mom, so I love you, but of course weโre gonna get in fights. But weโre very close. Very close. I love you a lot.โ
Being on the same page as ex David Arquette is key too.
โYou donโt want to go in one house and have anything split,โ Cox added. โYou want it to be harmonious in both places.โ
And her advice for other parents? Donโt make a teenager's room too comfy!
โItโs mostly me telling Coco, โPlease get out of your room and come and have dinner in the kitchen.โ Thereโs a lot of that, for sure,โ she concluded. โSheโs 13, she likes to be in her room. Unfortunately, I got her this big bed and that was the biggest mistake Iโve made,โ she joked. โYou need to make a bed really uncomfortable so all they wanna do is just go there for those hours they have to. Thatโs the big thing, I think.โ
Courteney and David split in 2010 after 11 years of marriage. David remarried to Christina McLarty (the pair have since split) and Courteney is engaged to Snow Patrol singer Johnny McDaid.