You may think growing up with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith as parents means life is pretty easy and simple. But for Jaden and Willow Smith, it left them not understanding how to eat out at restaurants and not wanting to ever return to Disneyland.

Let us explain:

The Smiths have been praised, but mostly criticized, for their far from traditional parenting style. Even Jada’s mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, thinks Jaden and Willow Smith had too much freedom growing up.

In the recent episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk, Jada admits that she and Will grew up completely different than her children, so sometimes it's hard for her to understand their experiences. Things got interesting when the Smith children opened up about their own struggles growing up wealthy and being used by their peers.

"It's like, what do I do when it's just me and my homies and we're chilling for dinner,” Jaden questioned, since his parents always paid for everyone when going out to eat? “Do I ask for the check? Do I just pay for everything?"

Willow had a similar experience when a group of friends asked her to go to Disneyland.

“I literally hate Disneyland,” she explained, “because I had one terrible experience and everyone expected me to pay for them… I was super young. It was with older girls and they were all behind my back like, 'Oh, she's going to pay for everything.' I honestly wasn't thinking that way… It was painful."

Willow and Jaden also had traumatizing experiences at the start of their careers with Jaden’s leading role in the 2010 film The Karate Kid and Willow’s hit single from the same year Whip My Hair.

Jada revealed that at the time, Jay-Z actually told them that “Whip My Hair” would be a hit. With Will and Jada’s hustler mentality, they knew that meant Willow would be set up for life. Willow says that she wished her parents cared more about her growth as an artist than her popularity and, “… the values of the people around [her] should have been the opposite.”

Since her children are now self-confident and very comfortable in their own skin, it was no surprise to Jada when Jaden started wearing skirts and even became the face of womenswear for Louis Vuitton. Will, on the other hand, was a little apprehensive.

Jada recalls this experience and explains: “I remember Will calling me and being like, ‘Have you talked about this with Jaden and him wearing a skirt?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I have.’ I said, ‘He’s pretty happy about it.’”

Though Jaden initially talked about wanting to give kids freedom to dress how they want and be themselves, he also says he wore skirts so he could look “fly.” 

Jada is proud of her children and says, “Even in those battles that we’ve had over what’s too much, what’s too little, trying to find the balance in regards to parenting, I’ll tell you one thing about the two of y’all: y’all know how to work, you work hard, and you do it well. And I’m proud of that,” she said.”

Watch Willow and Jaden Smith tell Jada Pinkett-Smith the truth about her parenting skills: