Seth Meyers.Photo: Lloyd Bishop/NBC
In an interview featured in this week’s issue of PEOPLE, Meyers talks about writing his kids' book, welcoming his daughter with a home birth and how his family is adjusting to being a party of five.
“I spend so much time reading to my kids, I wanted to throw my hat into the ring,” Meyers says of the inspiration behindI’m Not Scared, You’re Scared, in which a bear learns to face his fears.
The comedian wants the book to provide a space for kids to discuss the things that frighten them. “The best way to deal with your fears is to talk them out with someone who loves you,” says Meyers. “And parents play that role really well for kids.”
He admits that he’s had his own anxiety to navigate during the past couple of years.
Meyers is grateful that his kids are still too young to fully understand all of the scary happenings going on in the world. “I feel lucky right now that they’re not quite at the age where they can fully process how scary a time we live in,” he says. “We’re not going out of our way to shatter that innocence.”
At bedtime, Meyers and the boys read two to three books together. It was during this nighttime routine that he got their feedback about his book idea.
“I conceived the story first before I put it on paper. I would tell it to the boys at night and they would give me feedback,” says Meyers, who noted which parts of the story the boys seemed to enjoy the most. “I don’t think I would’ve done it without kids because I wouldn’t have thought it was going to be this rewarding.”
Seth Meyers with his boys.Seth Meyers/Instagram
For the first time, his wife gave birth with a planned home birth, which Meyers says was a “wonderful” process. When their sons woke up, it was better than Christmas morning.
“Their most exciting thing to do in the morning is we let them go in and wake her up,” he says. “They crawl into her crib, and are very gentle and very loving and get their faces very close.”
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Rather than adjusting to having their first girl, Meyers says the bigger change has been having three kids.
With the possibility of hormonal teenagers in the future, Meyers says he and Alexi are content with their family of five and aren’t planning on another child.
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source: people.com
