“Smile”, “appreciate what you have”: these five essential rules that Madonna teaches her children

She is about to begin an international tour for her 40-year career.

A journey that some of Madonna's six children - Lourdes Leon, 26, Rocco Ritchie, 22, David Banda, 17, Mercy James, 17, and Stella and Estere, 10 - will likely be part of.

At the dawn of this trip, the singer also shared in an Instagram story, on Sunday March 19, the five “rules of the house” and of life that she taught to her heirs.

The whole, by means of a cliché on which it appears equipped with a slate, on which are written these precepts.

Madonna shared in an Instagram story the rules of life she taught her children.

(Posted March 19, 2023.) Instagram/@madonna screenshot

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The first of them?

"Smile".

Madonna also recommends to "be happy", to "listen to others", or even to "show kindness".

“Be happy with what you have,” the artist also recommends.

At the end of January, the interpreter of

, then on the cover of the first special issue "Icons" of

, confided in the difficulties she encounters as a mother.

She had thus described motherhood as “the most difficult battle” that she had ever fought.

"Today I am still struggling to figure out how to be a mother and do my job," she said.

This does not prevent him from maintaining an unfailing bond with his children.

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