Chesca Garcia is at the point in her journey as a mother where she talks to her eldest daughter Kendra about relationships and having crushes.

Appearing on PUSH Bets Live, the actress-host said that unlike her experience as a teen, she makes sure to explain to Kendra things she has to know about dating and why she can’t yet have a boyfriend at her age. Kendra will be turning 14 this coming June.

“I remember when I was younger, things were not explained to me so thoroughly. ‘Di ba, what we’re used to is ‘pag merong boyfriend, ‘pag merong crush, pinapagalitan ka kaagad. Pero you are not actually explained why you can’t have a boyfriend, why you can’t be in a relationship yet,” she said.

“So I think now, it’s being generous also with explaining to our children,” she continued. “I always tell Kendra, ‘It’s normal to admire someone. Maybe you can admire their looks, their intelligence, how good they are in sports. But it doesn’t mean that you’re really ready to be in a relationship, or that’s already a crush.’

“Kasi you have to be able to differentiate at your age a crush or wanting to be in a relationship. But I always tell her, one day, that time will come when you’re ready, when you have accomplished what you need to accomplish, when you’re spiritually, emotionally matured. So it takes so much more than that.”

Chesca, however, said she is glad that Kendra is still not yet at a point where she has crushes.

“I’d like to believe that she tells me everything, but I always ask her, and she’d always tells me, ‘No, Mommy. I don’t think about that.’ She knows that when she goes to school, she’s there to study. She has friends, but her goal there is to really study,” Chesca stressed.

“Although there’s some that she’ll say, ‘Oh, I admire because he’s intelligent,’ this and that. But she doesn’t mistake that as an emotion that she has to take into action.”

During the interview, Chesca also talked about the possibility of Kendra following in her footsteps and joining showbiz someday. The actress-model — who herself entered showbiz when she was just 11 —  said there’s been a lot of offers for Kendra ever since she was a little girl. And while that is something that “appeals” to their daughter, she and her husband, Doug Kramer, want Kendra to enjoy being young and focus on her schooling first.

“We always tell her that we don’t want her childhood to be robbed in such a way wherein we’d see that that time will come. But right now she should enjoy being young, going to school, experiencing all the things that she’s experiencing right now, friends, sports, all of these things,” she said.

“Because I entered showbiz when I was just 11 years old. And I really tried to do it all, to do show business, to do schooling, to do sports, but it’s really impossible. And something there will be sacrificed,” she continued. “And speaking by experience, I was telling her that. You know I wish that I had stayed longer in doing probably my schooling, my sports, and everything.”

“Although I’m so thankful because this has really opened doors for me. And I’m here where I am right now precisely because of that,” she added. “But then I was telling her, I think your time and your season is here, to study and enjoy first being a kid, enjoy first figuring things out on your own. Because that part will come later on, when you’re really ready.

“When you’re really ready emotionally, when you’re ready to commit — because that’s a commitment. Once you start, you can’t stop.”

Aside from Kendra, Chesca has two other children with her husband Doug — 11-year-old Scarlet and 10-year-old Gavin.