Kylie Kelce says she approves of new ‘feral child summer’ trend — and moms agree
During the July 10 episode of her podcast “Not Gonna Lie,” host Kylie Kelce talked about the latest parenting trend she’s been seeing circulating social media and various news reports.
“This summer there is a new trend I’m seeing on a lot of parent blogs, TikTok, local news,” Kelce, 33, explained. “It’s called ‘feral child summer.’”
It’s a trend that Kelce said she’s very much onboard with as a mom of four. “I love the idea of feral child summer,” she explained. Kelce shares her four daughters, Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett and Finnley, with her husband, retired NFL star Jason Kelce.
“I currently will unleash my children into the backyard,” Kylie Kelce admitted. “If one of them ends up digging out a rock. Have at it. If another one ends up climbing up the play set, having a whole pretend play situation or scenario made up. Great. I love watching them play.”
Kylie Kelce said she herself was “a bug hunt kid” growing up. “If you weren’t a bug hunt kid, I’m sorry you missed out on that.”
Kylie Kelce recalled the stepping stones that were in the yard of her childhood home growing up that she “would go and flip over to find the rollie pollies, centipedes, earthworms. I loved that.”
And she’s hoping to share her love of bug hunting with her own daughters.
“The other day, I had to show my kids how to catch fireflies carefully. Everybody knows, if you catch ladybugs or fireflies, they will climb up to the tippy top of your hand and fly away that way. And then you can track them just long enough to see their first flash, because that’s what you’re going for.”
“You don’t want to hold on to them for too long, because then they’re going to cease to exist, if you catch my drift,” Kylie Kelce continued. “We catch them and we let them go, but we catch them with cuppy hands so that we don’t squash them. That was a lot of our conversation.”
In honor of the “feral child summer” trend, Kylie Kelce also shared who her most feral child is.
“The other night, my most feral child for a very long time, thought for sure it was Elliotte. No one was going to rival her, and then Bennett turned 2,” Kylie Kelce admitted.