HGTV star Ben Napier lives in a “constant state of fear” as a woman dad.
“Growing up, I had three brothers, and I know exactly how to handle boys,” Ben instructed Fox Information Digital whereas talking about his present, “Home Town.” “I am in a constant state of fear with two little girls and wanting to discipline, but how far?”
“But not crush their spirit,” his spouse Erin Napier added, earlier than Ben continued, “and also not make them terrified of me.”
Ben and Erin share two daughters – Helen, 6, and Mae, 3.
“I feel like with boys, it’s OK to have a healthy amount of fear of your father,” Ben famous. “With girls it’s like, I need them to know that they can call on me with anything.”
“I’m just not used to being around little girls… it is really hard,” Ben added.
“I’ve been one my whole life… I’m trying my best, but it’s hard,” Erin agreed. “Parenting is the hardest job in the world. Everybody knows that.”
The most important problem for Ben and Erin on this season of their residence renovation present was studying to stability work with parenting their two daughters. Ben and Erin star in HGTV’s “Home Town,” the place the couple works to revive historic houses with discovered supplies and outdated textiles of their hometown of Laurel, Mississippi.
“We’ve never been parents before,” Erin famous. “We’re still learning every single day. Learning how to do our jobs well and be the best parents possible is always the biggest challenge.”
Erin and Ben have been collectively for 20 years. The couple met in 2004, whereas Erin was a sophomore in school. Erin had a crush on Ben earlier than they formally met, as she beforehand shared in a sequence of Instagram posts.
In response to Erin, the 2 fell in love over the course of six days.
“By December 13, [Ben] had met both my parents,” Erin wrote on Instagram. “He had no money, no prospects, and they knew that and they both loved him instantly anyway and said so – they’d never even pretended to tolerate any boys before that. We’d been inseparable for 6 days. His shirts all had my lip gloss imprinted on the chest because I wasn’t used to hugging someone so tall yet.”
“We never stopped talking. We had 19 and 21 years to catch up on, and there was no detail too trivial. Ben says his mom told him ‘You marry the one you never want to stop talking to.’ So 6 days after meeting, and 2 days before we would be on a one-month Christmas break apart, he told me ‘I think I’m in love with you.’ and I said ‘I’m in love with you too.’ ‘I’m going to marry you,’ he told me – ‘Yes. That sounds perfect,’ I told him.”
Years later, the couple’s TV present “Home Town” premiered in January 2016 as Ben and Erin work to revive the city of Laurel, Mississippi.
Ben and Erin hope their tasks present what it’s actually prefer to dwell in a small city.
“People just have it in their mind what it is to live in a small town and what it isn’t,” Erin instructed Fox Information Digital. “And I hope that the more you watch ‘Home Town,’ the more you see that you can live the dream.”
“You can have your hot sauce and salsa farm in the middle of town, and you can build a school for children who are underserved. You can do anything in a small town. And that’s the story that’s so fun to tell for us.”
“Home Town” premieres Dec. 29 on HGTV.
