Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have been very open about their parenting skills in the past where they explained that their children never had punishments, and their creative expression was most important. "There's a really powerful internal quality as an artist that as parents we encourage. You gotta get out on the edge, you have to try things, you have to be comfortable doing things that people don't agree with, and you have to be comfortable doing things that you could fail," he previously told BBC Radio 1.
Another one of Will's parenting tips is honesty and a recent Instagram video explains how "being a parent means knowing when to lie to your kids and when to hit them with the truth...... and when to share the truth with your IG Fam."
In the clip below you can see 17-year-old Willow at home frosting a cake in the kitchen as Will films the event saying she's doing a good job. The joke is that Will turns the camera on himself to quietly reveal that it's really not a good job. Clearly, he didn't want to hit Willow with the truth in that moment but it's fair to say she's been told of her dad's true opinion now.