Will Smith doesn't punish his kids

Actor Will Smith doesn't punish his kids because he believes children should be allowed to take control of their own lives and learn from their mistakes.
The 44-year-old and wife Jada Pinkett Smith are eager to teach their two kids, Jaden, 14, and Willow, 12, the rights and wrongs of life by allowing them to make their own mistakes instead of using traditional disciplines, reported Contactmusic.
"We generally don't believe in punishment. From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, and all he has to do is be able to explain why what he did was the right thing for his life," he said.

Will wants his children to take responsibility for their own lives and has revealed the extra freedoms they have been allowed has encouraged his actor son Jaden to ask for a house of his own for his 15th birthday in July.
"He says, 'Dad, I want to be emancipated,' I know if we do this, he can be an emancipated minor, because he really wants to have his own place.