Days of Our Lives' Eric Martsolf on Brady's Parenting: "He Allows Tate to Make His Own Decisions"
Days of Our Lives' Eric Martsolf on Brady's Parenting: "He Allows Tate to Make His Own Decisions" originally appeared on Daytime Confidential.
Days of Our Lives vet knows a thing or two about parenting young men, given he has twin sons that are teenagers in real life. But just as any real parent faces joy and struggles with their child, his character, Brady Black, has also had ups and downs while parenting teenage Tate (). But Brady's own parenting philosophy is rather similar to Martsolf's.
Martsolf told Soap Opera Digest:
They've played it really wise in the sense that Brady doesn't force his opinions and his morals on his son. He guides him, but he allows Tate to make his own decisions at the end of the day. And that's something I balance with my sons as well. You can't be too overbearing. You can't be a helicopter parent. You can only guide the horse to the water, but you can't make him drink it. And that's exactly how he's playing it, which was always reminiscent of the way Drake [Hogestyn, ex-John] played it with me. He'd always have that reassuring hand on the shoulder and say, 'Hey kid, I trust you to make the right decision.' He'd always leave you with your own thoughts. So you were able to make your own decision, but your father's voice was always there.
This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Jun 24, 2025, where it first appeared.
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