Kim, 42, is mom to 9-year-old North, 7-year-old Saint, 5-year-old Chicago, and 4-year-old Psalm, all of whom she shares with ex-husband Kanye West, who is now known as Ye.

Sitting down on the podcast On Purpose With Jay Shetty on Monday, Kim candidly discussed some of the biggest challenges she encounters as a mom of four.

“Parenting is the thing that has taught me the most about myself,” she told the host, Jay. “It has been the most challenging thing.”

Elaborating further on some of these challenges, Kim explained that she sometimes struggles to handle her kids’ changing “moods” and “personalities” with “no one there” to help her out.

“There are nights I cry myself to sleep, like, What just happened? with all the moods and the personalities,” she said.
“Sometimes they’re fighting and there’s no one there,” she went on. “It’s me [that has] to play good cop and bad cop. So that is definitely a challenge.”Going on to reveal that she’s working on being “a little bit firmer” with her kids, Kim said, “Sometimes it’s nights where we are going hour by hour to see if we’re gonna survive. Night by night. If a tantrum comes in, oh my god. Your life is completely upside down.”

“I mean, there [are] nights when you don’t wash your hair for days as a mom, and you have spit-up all over you, and you’re wearing the same pajamas,” she explained before adding, “It is the most challenging, rewarding job on this planet.”

Interestingly, this comes just a week after Kim found herself at the center of public attention over her parenting of her second son, Saint.

Sharing the video messages that her kids filmed for Mother’s Day, which was on May 14, Kim posted a clip of Saint saying in part, “I know I’m rude to you a lot, I say you’re nothing to me, but you mean the world to me.” The footage garnered a huge reaction online, with the 7-year-old’s loaded remark causing several social media users to question Kim’s parenting.
North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm have all been brought up in the spotlight from day one, having been featured in various episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and having appeared all over Kim’s and her sisters’ social media pages. As a result, they’re often swarmed by paparazzi and screaming fans when they’re spotted out and about.
“I am so open and honest with my kids. I think that’s the only way to be,” she went on. “And it could be things that they might not understand. I’ll wait to find the appropriate time to talk about it.”“I think they grew up seeing the cameras…even as babies,” she said. “We’d walk out and there’d be paparazzi, so it’s not really something that they acknowledge a lot.”