Jennifer Garner shares ‘hard’ part of raising her and Ben Affleck’s kids

Jennifer Garner’s lips are zipped. The toughest part of parenting for the actress has been allowing her and Ben Affleck’s three children — Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12 — to make decisions by themselves. “I have a really hard time not saying, ‘This is what I see you as,’ and, ‘I think you should,'” the “13 Going on 30” star admitted to People in an interview published Thursday. “I really have to sit on my hands.”