Rihanna Shares Relatable Parenting Hack to Get Her Sons’ Attention

Rihanna may be a Grammy award-winning pop star, but when it comes to getting her kids to listen to her, she’s just a regular mom!

On Sunday, April 27, the star, 37, shared an Instagram Stories video of her eyes and lips with a banana filter. She captioned the funny clip, “Since my kids love bananas so much but wanna ignore me.” Making clear that she wanted her boys, RZA, 2 and 1-year-old Riot, to listen to what she was saying, the clip was accompanied H.E.R’s 2016 tune “Focus.”

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Though the Fenty Beauty founder, who shares her sons with A$AP Rocky, 36, keeps them largely out of the spotlight, back in February, she opened up to Harper’s Bazzar about how the boys are following in their musical parents’ footsteps.

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Rihanna told the outlet that RZA is “So magical. He loves music. He loves melody. He loves books. He loves water. Bath time, swimming, pool, beach, anything.” She added that the tot was “an empath.”

As for her younger son Riot, whom she welcomed in August 2023, the “Umbrella” singer said that he’s “just hilarious” and teased that he takes after his mom in wanting to “sing” all the time.

“When he wakes up, he starts to squeal, scream. Not in a crying way. He just wants to sing,” she noted to the fashion title. “And I’m like, ‘Okay, here we go!’ He’s my alarm in the morning! He’s not taking no for an answer from anyone.”

The singer also quipped that Riot’s personality mirrors her own, joking, “I don’t know where he came from, dude.”

The star went on to touch upon the more challenging aspects of parenthood in the interview, too, revealing to Harper’s Bazaar that RZA initially struggled with the idea of welcoming a sibling but eventually came around to being a big brother.

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“… At first Riot was understanding that his role was being the little brother. Now [RZA] knows he’s in charge,” she said.

Meanwhile, back in March 2023, the Diamonds singer said motherhood was “legendary” in an interview with British Vogue.

“It’s everything,” she said. “You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever.”