<p id=”par-1_64″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/cardi-b/?swcfpc=1″>Cardi B</a> has <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/celebrity-kids”>three kids</a>, with a fourth on the way. The rapper has said that she wants her children to get everything they want out of life, but acknowledged that she sees herself as a strict parent. She knows that this might get on their nerves, especially as they get older, but she feels that it will be worth it in the end.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-cardi-b-shared-what-she-wants-for-her-kids”>Cardi B shared what she wants for her kids</h2>
<p id=”par-2_19″>When considering her children’s futures, Cardi said she wants them to be a “100 times better version” of her.</p>
<p id=”par-3_46″>“It’s discipline. It’s gotta be in you, and you have to be better than me. I want you to be better than me,” she said on Jay Shetty’s <em>On Purpose </em>podcast (via <a href=”https://people.com/cardi-b-wants-her-children-to-be-a-100-times-better-version-of-herself-11825240″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>). “There’s things that I cannot do that I want my kids to do.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_31″>She knows that pushing her kids to be the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-said-struggled-look-kids-offset-heartbreak.html/”>best versions of themselves</a> might create friction as they age. Still, she feels confident that they will appreciate her parenting one day.</p>
<p id=”par-5_98″>“I want you to be smarter than me,” she said. “I want you to be — not perfect because you cannot make your kids perfect and you don’t want you to put pressure on your kids [to be] perfect — but I want you to be a 100 times better version than me, and I’m gonna [instill] that in you and you’re gonna be mad and you’re gonna be crying, but you’re gonna appreciate that one day because I wish the things that that I put on my kids that somebody put in me when I was younger.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-cardi-b-shared-one-way-her-kids-could-disappoint-her”>Cardi B shared one way her kids could disappoint her</h2>
<p id=”par-6_22″>While Cardi doesn’t expect her children to be perfect, she admitted that there are ways in which they might let her down.</p>
<p id=”par-7_32″>“Please don’t be lazy,” she said. “Don’t be a bum. Some people have the look, the intelligence, the talent. Some people really have that. But they don’t go nowhere because they’re lazy.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_21″>Both Cardi and her estranged husband, Offset, are <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-vs-offset-higher-net-worth.html/”>wealthy and successful</a>. She doesn’t want her children to rest on that, though.</p>
<p id=”par-9_30″>“Don’t just be, ‘Oh, your parents are this and that,’” she said. “No, be your own person. Be your own human. Be something. Be something you could be proud of.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_21″>She hopes that her children will see how hard she works and embrace a similar work ethic as they grow older. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-hopes-to-have-more-children-nbsp”>She hopes to have more children </h2>
<p id=”par-11_53″>Cardi is currently pregnant with her fourth child, and her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs. She shares two daughters and a son with Offset. Before she announced her current pregnancy, Cardi said she was looking forward to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-wants-more-kids-not-immediately-feeling-happiest-son.html/”>having more children</a>. She joked that she wanted to set herself up for a better future.</p>
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<p id=”par-12_33″>“It’s like the more kids you have, the less of a possibility you go to a home,” she said on <em>The Jennifer Hudson Show</em>. “One of them is going to wipe my butt.”</p>