{"id":155864,"date":"2025-11-27T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155864\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:52:08","slug":"sir-david-beckham-on-fatherhood-im-a-lot-softer-than-my-dad-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155864\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir David Beckham on fatherhood: \u2018I\u2019m a lot softer than my Dad was\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">That includes when his sons, who all spent time playing football at the Arsenal academy, have been out on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI go quiet, actually. And then the boys know exactly whether I\u2019m happy or not happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">In the interview, released this week but recorded last year, he insisted he had tried to pass on \u201cthe same values\u201d his mother instilled in him and his siblings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI would like to say that I brought my children up with the same values as what my Dad and Mum taught me and my sisters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy kids are very polite. My kids are very well-mannered. My kids are humble, and they all have the same values as what I have and my wife has.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat\u2019s the proudest thing that we have as parents, in all honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">Beckham heaped praise on Victoria Beckham, 51, for giving him \u201cthe greatest\u201d gift in their four children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFamily has always been important, and the greatest thing [Victoria Beckham] has ever given me is my four children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe created this life with four amazing children, which are the most important things in our life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">Son Brooklyn Beckham is reported to be estranged from his parents, having been absent from his father\u2019s 50th birthday celebrations earlier this year, and from his knighthood ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">However, Brooklyn Beckham, who makes online cooking videos, insisted he \u201cnever\u201d worried about gossip, and praised his wife, Nicola Peltz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">He told the Daily Mail: \u201cThere\u2019s always going to be people saying negative things, but I have a very supportive wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMe and her, we just do our thing, we just keep our heads down and work. And we\u2019re happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEveryone is always going to say rubbish. I just try and do this, play some golf with some friends. It\u2019s good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That includes when his sons, who all spent time playing football at the Arsenal academy, have been out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38017,49325,6284,156,2209,29400,1351,31989,4462,4977,111,139,69,90,8765,8485,85584,2791,131,6736],"class_list":{"0":"post-155864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-beckham","9":"tag-dad","10":"tag-david","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-father","13":"tag-fatherhood","14":"tag-had","15":"tag-im","16":"tag-lot","17":"tag-my","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-on","22":"tag-parenting","23":"tag-sir","24":"tag-softer","25":"tag-style","26":"tag-than","27":"tag-was"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}