Jared Bush on HEXED parenting themes
Parents often vow to break the cycle, but Jared Bush notes that kids just end up making different mistakes instead. Disney's HEXED explores this exact trap through Alice, who tries raising Billie differently than she was raised. The result? Unforeseen ramifications that only show up when Billie makes her own errors. Bush relates this directly to his own life after sending his oldest son off to college. He admits feeling the same fear as Alice right now, terrified of a phone beep while his child is away. As he put it: "Alice wants to do something for her daughter that's a little different than how she was raised, and that has ramifications that she can't see until Billie makes these other mistakes."
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Yeah, and I'd say for me as a parent, I'm constantly thinking, well, how was I raised? What mistakes did I make? And I'm going to do an awesome job as a parent because I'm going to do something different with my kids and they're not going to make the same mistakes. That's true. They make different mistakes that also stink. I think that's part of what the story is, is a character like Alice who wants to do something for her daughter that's a little different than the way that she was brought up and how that just has other ramifications that you can't see until your child goes and makes these other mistakes. I think that's a necessary part of life, the sort of back and forth, and that's something for me, I just took my oldest son to college, I'm so scared right now. Right now, like in my pocket, I'm like, there's my phone, if it beeps right now, I'm running out of the room. So like, I am the Alice in this moment right now as well.
