Protective' of Family Time
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With two little boys at home, Jared
Padalecki wants to spend as much
quality time with them as he can.
"After Supernatural I hope to kind of
back off from the business and work
more sporadically and be a father
and be a basketball coach for my
kids, maybe get into producing or
something," Padalecki, 32, told
reporters at the CW TCA in Beverly
Hills on Friday.
For now, the actor says there is no
balance, but he makes sure he has
dedicated family time for his sons ,
Thomas Colton , 2, and Shepherd , 7
months.
"I am violently protective of my " I
call it my off-time " when I'm not
working. I'm straight home and
whether they're in Vancouver or
they're in Seattle or wherever we
happen to be I'm straight to them,"
Padalecki explains.
"The other night I worked from 8
a.m. until 8 p.m. in Vancouver and
got an overnight flight to Houston. It
got me home at 8 a.m. and, you
know what, I was there with my kids
and I took a nap when they napped,"
Padalecki says. "I do it whenever I
can. Whenever I have the time to do
it, I do it. But, simply put, there is no
balance yet, but that's okay."
When the father of two isn't home,
his boys can still see their dad on TV
thanks to his wife, Genevieve .
"You know what's funny? My wife will
put [ Supernatural] on " and they're
too young to know what's going on
" but she'll put it on when either I'm
at work or I'm out of town so they
can see their dad and they'll say,
Daddy.'"
As for the cute moments that
Padalecki really enjoys?
"Tom is my 2-year-old and he's a
fully-functioning human being right
now," Padalecki jokes with a smile.
"The milestones that I laugh at are
when they start mimicking what
Daddy says and Mommy " in a
friendly way " [that] reminds Daddy
that he has to use his children
words."
"And then little Shep just started to
scoot, so Shep is 7 [months] and he
just started to crawl. He also started
... to [accept] me as part of his life.
Usually, he was like, What do you
want?' I want Mommy.' Now Shep
smiles when he sees me."
Padalecki admits that he hopes his
boys will have the same brotherly
bond he shares with his older
brother.
"I am a younger brother and I love
him and we were best men in each
other's weddings. [I] want them to be
there for each other."