Movie star Goldie Hawn co-authors new children's book
Goldie Hawn has co-authored a new children's book called The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose #1.
Goldie Hawn believes "empathy can be taught".
The 80-year-old actress launched MindUP, a mental health programme, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Goldie has been on a mission to curb rising rates of anxiety and depression among young people ever since.
Goldie - who has been in a relationship with fellow actor Kurt Russell since 1983 - told People: "I was knitting the American flag and crying because the world had changed forever."
Goldie has now channelled the principles of MindUP into a new children's book, titled The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose #1, which she's co-written with veteran author Lin Oliver.
Goldie said: "This is kindness. This is caring. This is empathy … In these stories we're building areas of empathetic behavior. Why? Because empathy can be taught."
Goldie's books are designed to feel fun rather than educational, despite incorporating the MindUP curriculum.
She said: "It's really, really satisfying to be able to take MindUP, which is a school programme and now putting it into children's books and giving them sort of this experiential, funny option. And the books, of course, must be funny. I mean, that's [the] bottom line, we have to have fun."
Meanwhile, Goldie is the mother of actress Kate Hudson, and the 47-year-old star recently admitted that she'd love to work with her mom.
Kate has enjoyed huge success in Hollywood, starring in movies such as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, You, Me and Dupree, and Song Sung Blue - but she has not yet managed to work with her own mom.
Speaking to E! News, Kate explained: "It probably will never happen but we’ll see, put it out there."
Kate jokingly suggested that her family's dysfunctional ways might come to the fore on a movie set.
She said: "It would be like Arrested Development."
Kate also explained that she has an undying "respect for every actor in our family".
She shared: "My mom and I were talking about this. Life, it goes fast, and you just gotta take every second in and every moment I get with my family and my parents is something I’m going to be very present in."
