Duck Dynasty alum Sadie Robertson is overwhelmingly grateful for her 14-month-old daughter Kit’s recovery after two choking incidents earlier this year.
“She’s doing amazing. I’m so grateful. It was a journey,” Robertson, 29, exclusively told Us while promoting her new memoir, It’s Not Personal: Coming Face-to-Face With Who You Really Are. “It wasn’t like we had surgery and then it was all better. I think that was the hardest part … ‘cause so many times you just wanna fix the problem, and we realized, ‘OK, this is kind of a new normal we’re living in for a little bit.’”
Robertson, who shares Kit with husband Christian Huff, revealed in May that the toddler had briefly stopped breathing the month prior after two separate choking incidents. She was ultimately diagnosed with laryngomalacia, a voice box disorder that’s common in babies.
“She is such a strong girl. She’s such a little overcomer,” Robertson gushed to Us. “I’m like, ‘That girl is gonna rock the world.’ She is so strong, so we’re so proud of her. She’s doing so good. She’s just amazing. At church [on] Sunday, she [was] literally worshipping the whole time as a 1-year-old, and I was like, ‘Yeah, she’s different.’”
In addition to Kit, Robertson and Huff, 28, are parents of daughters Honey, 5, and Haven, 3.
“They’re just incredible kids. They’re all so amazing, all world-changers,” Robertson told Us. “The other day … I was going out of town and I was telling them, ‘You gotta behave for KK [my mom, Korie Robertson]. You gotta be obedient.’ And I said, ‘What are y’all?’ I was expecting her to say, ‘We’re sisters and we’re friends’ ‘cause I always make them say that.”
She continued, “I said, ‘What are y’all?’ And Honey said, ‘The light of the world.’ I said, ‘Oh yes, you are the light of the world.’ So, they’re amazing. I mean, they’re kids, so they have all the struggles every other 5- and 3-year-old have. Life’s not perfect, but I’m so proud of the people that they’re becoming, and they are sisters and friends and little lights.”
Robertson is also already teaching her daughters the impactful life lessons laid out in her new book, It’s Not Personal.
“I always encourage them how much their words matter. The Bible says that our words carry the power of life or death, and that sounds dramatic, but you can see that is true,” she explained to Us. “People can speak things over you that breed life or people can speak things over you that destroy you, so that’s one thing I’m teaching my girls already, that your words carry such power. The way I tell them, I say, ‘There’s a garden in people’s hearts, and when you speak words of life, it grows their garden and makes them into the beautiful person that they’re meant to be or you’re gonna speak words that are death and you’re gonna kill their garden and you’re gonna pull out their flowers that God put in them to be so beautiful.’ And so, I’m already trying to teach them, like, your words are personal and they’re gonna be heard personally by people. You’re either gonna bless people or curse people, use them for good.”
Robertson added, “I think you’re never too young to start shaping your kids to understand that your words matter and that your life is bigger than yourself, that your life is gonna impact all the people around you for the good or the bad.”
It’s Not Personal: Coming Face-to-Face With Who You Really Are is out now.
