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With a five-year age gap between her two children, Julianne Moore is experiencing two different extremes of parenting.
Daughter Liv Helen, 7 ½, “likes school, likes reading” and is on her way to mastering the English language, the actress laughs during a recent visit to The Jay Leno Show.
“She’s still little enough where she mispronounces words. She can’t say ‘breakfast,’ she says, ‘Brehfest,’ Julianne shares.
“She goes to the ‘libary’ where she gets some ‘brooks,’ she’s ‘opposed’ to do her homework, and she lives in ‘You Nork.”
On the brink of his teenage years, son Cal, 12, is also concentrating his efforts on a new skill: charming the ladies! Cal, who is “very into girls,” and his friends recently celebrated his birthday party at a restaurant and took advantage of their “good-natured” waitress to test out their luck.
“They were trying their lines and I said, ‘What do you mean your lines? Like come-on lines?’” Julianne recalls. “And he goes, ‘No Mommy, pick-up lines.’”
After Cal started out “really adorable” — asking “Hey, hey, do you know how much a polar bear weighs? Enough to break the ice!” — the waitress’ heart was stolen! “She’s like, ‘Awww, they’re so cute!’” says Julianne.
However, noting that their age inevitably led them into dirtier territory, the lines quickly went down hill from there.
“Then it’s like, ‘Do you work for UPS? Because I notice you’re checking out my package.’ And she was like, ‘Yuck! That’s disgusting!’ And then of course they follow it with, ‘You must work at Subway because you’re giving me a foot-long.’ So, at that point, she walks away and says, ‘You kids are gross!’”
Cal and Liv are Julianne’s children with husband Bart Freundlich.
Source: The Jay Leno Show
– Anya