Grimes is opening up about co-parenting her two children with Elon Musk.

Talking with Wired as she seems on the duvet of the journal’s September challenge, the 35-year-old musician opens up about making an attempt to “construct household tradition” with the X (previously Twitter) CEO, 52, as they co-parent daughter Exa Darkish Sideræl, who goes by Y, 19 months outdated, and 3-year-old son X Æ A-12.

When requested if the tech entrepreneur is coaching their son to be Musk’s “protégé,” Grimes says she’s “right here for that.”

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“X is aware of rather a lot about rockets. It is loopy,” she shares. “He is aware of extra about rockets than me.”

The toddler has hassle discovering toys he enjoys as a result of, “if they are not anatomically appropriate, he will get upset. He is somewhat engineer for certain.”

The mother was somewhat nervous about his “obsession with house” when X had a “three-day PTSD meltdown” when SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded minutes after takeoff in April.

“When X noticed Starship blow up, he had, like, a three-day PTSD meltdown,” Grimes says. “Each hour, he was waking up and going, ‘Starship …’ and I needed to rub his again.”

As for toddler daughter Y, Grimes sees “she’s somewhat engineer too,” including, “she likes industrial transport. She’s very unusual.”

The previous couple is within the strategy of determining what their kids’s instructional journeys will appear to be, with Grimes saying she’s “looking for an important peer group, different mother and father who’re kind of like us and share comparable values.”

“I actually care about having an excellent relationship with my children. I believe I perceive the right way to be an excellent father or mother to them. Each imposing self-discipline and being their buddy,” she says. “Who is aware of, possibly they’ll resent me and reject household tradition, however I really feel like they won’t.”