Molly Ringwald admits she “struggles” to part from her smartphone and has even tried to leave it out of the bedroom when she goes to bed – but to no avail.
Speaking about switching off her phone, said: “My husband and I, we’re taking our phones and putting them outside of the room and then somehow they found their way back. I think that’s a constant struggle for everyone in these times, negotiating that time that you have on the screen.”
And the 53-year-old actress enjoys meditation, something which she has found “helpful” to her health.
She added: “Somebody taught me about meditation when I was younger, and it was just something that I always had sort of in the back of my mind. But it’s something that I actively use now as a tool to centre myself and to make sure that I’m getting enough oxygen to my brain and all of that. It’s something that I do pretty much every day at some point in the day.”
Molly extends this to her children – 11-year-old twins, Adele and Roman, and 17-year-old daughter Mathilda, who she has with her husband Panio Gianopoulos – and wants to make sure they are “feeling OK physically and mentally”, insisting it is a “daily practice” for the whole family.
Speaking to Yahoo Life, she said: “As far as everything else, I think it’s just a lot of deep breathing and trying to keep an open line of communication with my kids – checking in with them, making sure that they’re feeling OK physically and mentally.
“That’s a daily practice, something that my husband and I talk about every single day.”