Growing up in a polygamous family impacted how Mykelti Brown has decided to raise her own children.
“Friendly reminder from a new mom who had five different women show her what motherhood looked like and still felt completely unprepared if you feel lost trying to figure out your own parenting style that makes sense ,” Brown, 29, said in a Saturday, April 11, social media video. “In a plural family, you don’t really get one parenting model. You’re just absorbing five different ones.”
Mykelti is one of Kody Brown’s daughters with Christine Brown. Kody, 57, once had respective spiritual marriages with Christine, 53, Janelle Brown, Meri Brown and Robyn Brown. Kody legally divorced Meri, 55, in 2014 in order to marry Robyn, 47, and adopt her three children from a previous relationship. Christine, Meri and Janelle, 56, have all since separated from Kody, who is now in a monogamous relationship with Robyn.
When Kody practiced polygamy, his wives and 18 children all lived in the same neighborhood. After leaving her family’s plural lifestyle behind, Mykelti married Antonio Padron in 2016. They welcomed daughter Avalon in 2021 and twins Archer and Ace in 2022.
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As Mykelti embarked on her own motherhood journey, she looked back on how Christine, Meri, Janelle and Robyn ran their households.
“[There are] different rules, different warmth levels, different expectations depending on whose day it was,” she recalled on Saturday. “Then you have your own kid [and] it’s not just the parenting decisions that feel hard. It’s knowing which versions of mom you even wanna be.”
Mykelti added, “Suddenly you’re holding your baby, going, ‘I actually don’t know whose example to follow.’”
In her caption, Mykelti further acknowledged that “growing up in polygamy” complicated both her childhood and her motherhood experience.
While Mykelti still feels unsure about her parenting style, her followers offered plenty of support in the comments section.
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“The fact that you even put this much thought into it is proof you are doing a great job,” one social media user replied. “Half of being a good parent is being present in their lives, and the other half is being willing to grow and evolve with your children. I think you are doing an excellent job at both!”
Another fan added, “As a mom of 6 kids, I learnt quickly not to listen to other people’s advice but to follow my own gut feeling. If you do that then you can’t go wrong.”
