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- Drake Bell Reveals How He's Raising His 4-Year-Old Son to Have a Healthy View of Masculinity</p>
<p>Erin ClackJuly 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM</p>
<p>Drake Bell/Instagram</p>
<p>Drake Bell and his son, Jeremy</p>
<p>Drake Bell opened up about how he's raising his son, Jeremy, to have a healthy view of masculinity while appearing on the July 3 episode of the Tea Time with Raven & Miranda podcast</p>
<p>He told hosts Raven-Symoné and Miranda Pearman-Maday that masculinity isn't "something that you can teach"</p>
<p>Bell shares 4-year-old Jeremy with ex-wife Janet Von Schmeling</p>
<p>Drake Bell is sharing how he is raising his son to have a healthy view of masculinity.</p>
<p>During an appearance on the July 3 episode of the Tea Time with Raven & Miranda podcast, the actor, 39, discussed the topic of masculinity with Raven Symoné and her wife, Miranda Pearman-Maday.</p>
<p>Bell told the couple that when it comes to parenting his 4-year-old son Jeremy — whom he shares with ex-wife Janet Von Schmeling — he doesn't believe that masculinity is "something that you teach."</p>
<p>Instead, he said, it's a matter of instilling good values in your child. Citing the gesture of opening the door for a woman as an example, Bell explained he thinks being polite and chivalrous — without "overstepping" — is "the way that men should behave in society."</p>
<p>Bell shared a recent experience where Jeremy went to rush off an elevator when the doors opened before allowing two women to step out first. "I looked at him and I said, 'It's really important when we're on the elevator and there's girls on the elevator, you have to let the girls off first and the boys go off second,' " he recalled.</p>
<p>"It's just manners," Bell told the podcast hosts, reiterating, "I don't think that [masculinity is] something to be taught because it's something that you're discovering."</p>
<p>The Drake & Josh alum also spoke about society's tendency to label certain traits as masculine and feminine. He described Jeremy as "a boy's boy" who also likes to "lie down with his mommy" and who will pause in the middle of watching a TV show to sweetly give his dad a kiss.</p>
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<p>Drake Bell in July 2024</p>
<p>"Now in society, it's like, 'Oh, I need to break my son of that. That's a very feminine trait. I can't have my son walking around kissing Dad on the lips,' " Drake said, explaining that he doesn't want to put such notions "into my son's brain."</p>
<p>He said his son can be "loving and caring and cuddly and kissing" and also "running up and climbing on the jungle gym and falling down and scraping his leg."</p>
<p>"I don't think that there's a separation there [with masculine and feminine traits]," the actor insisted. "I think that's just the boxes that we're putting that in."</p>
<p>"This isn't the masculine side of me, this isn't the feminine side of me," he continued. "This is the 'me' side of me, and this is just who I am."</p>
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<p>Noting that "maybe it's the artist in me," Drake said he "strives" for his son to be able to "emote and express love and cry" and know that "it's OK to be sad."</p>
<p>Later in the conversation, Drake added that he believes it's a "misfortune what we've done in society where we're just putting labels in boxes and stifling people."</p>
<p>Drake and his ex-wife welcomed Jeremy in 2021 before later separating in 2022.</p>
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