Team Parenting: Why Anushka and Virat see raising kids as a shared journey

When Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli speak about parenting, what stands out is not dramatic emotion or grand declarations. It is the language of adjustment.

Both have, in different interviews, acknowledged that becoming parents changed how they organise their time. Careers that once ran at full throttle now seem to move around family schedules. The change does not sound like sacrifice as much as recalibration. Something had to shift, and it seems to be the idea that work must always come first. While speaking to NDTV about raising children with Virat, Anushka explained that they approach parenting together, saying, “We don’t see it as mum and dad duties, but as a family responsibility… For us, it’s important that our child be raised with a very balanced outlook.”




Anushka has been direct about one point. Parenting is not a mother’s role with assistance. It is shared responsibility. In a parenting conversation featured by KidsStopPress, she spoke about the kind of environment they want at home, saying, “Love is the underlying factor in our home… You have to create that value structure. We don’t want to raise brats.” The emphasis is not on achievement first, but on character.

Virat’s comments about fatherhood lean toward presence rather than performance. His stance becomes most visible when it comes to privacy. During an airport interaction covered by television news channels, he firmly told media filming his family like 7 News, “With my kids I need some privacy. You can’t film without asking me.” The message was not aggression. It was boundary.

Presence here does not appear casual. The shared aspect becomes more visible in how they handle exposure. Their decision to keep their children away from constant public gaze is not about secrecy. It is about pace. In interviews connected to her Vogue India feature, Anushka spoke about wanting to raise her child away from unnecessary public attention and allowing them to grow without social media becoming part of their identity too early.

Parenting quote of the day: “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” - Bill Ayers

That approach suggests something subtle. They are not just responding to situations as they come. They seem to be pre deciding boundaries. What enters their children’s lives. What stays outside. That kind of filtering usually requires two adults aligned rather than one managing alone.

There is also a thread in how they talk about values. Speaking again to NDTV, Anushka highlighted that conditioning shapes how a child sees the world, stressing that respect and grounded behaviour matter more than image. The tone in these conversations is not preachy. It sounds more like an ongoing check. A reminder that children absorb environment faster than advice.

What is noticeable is the absence of the super parent narrative. Neither presents themselves as having a formula. In a KidsStopPress featured discussion, Anushka spoke about learning along the way, noting that parents have to be prepared for curveballs rather than pretending to have everything figured out. That signals a view of parenting as something that evolves, not something mastered.

For many families, the challenge today is not only raising children, but managing the world around them. Information, visibility, comparison, pace. Doing that alone can become overwhelming. Doing it as a shared mental task spreads the responsibility.

In that sense, their version of team parenting reads less like division of labour and more like division of awareness. Two adults paying attention, not just to the children, but to the environment shaping them.

It is not flashy. It is not presented as revolutionary. But it reflects a shift many parents are quietly making, moving from individual endurance to shared responsibility.