Current:Home > reviewsKristen Bell Says She and Dax Shepard Let Kids Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9, Roam Around Theme Park Alone -TradeBridge
Kristen Bell Says She and Dax Shepard Let Kids Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9, Roam Around Theme Park Alone
View
Date:2025-04-13 05:04:15
Kristen Bell continues to parent by her own set of rules.
The Nobody Wants This star revealed that she and husband Dax Shepard took a chance with an impromptu parenting decision on a recent vacation to Copenhagen with daughters Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9.
"Don't you find that going on vacation as a parent—it's not a vacation, it's just watching your kids in a different city?" Kristen asked Jimmy Kimmel during a Sept. 19 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, noting that their children are "similar ages."
Jimmy—who shares Katie, 33, and Kevin, 31, with ex-wife Ginna Maddy, and Jane, 10, and Billy, 7, with wife Molly McNearney—replied, "It's worse than being at home."
"Truly!" Kristen added. "Because they have none of their creature comforts, they're asking you a thousand more questions than they normally do."
The former Veronica Mars actress went on to share a "hack" that she and Dax came up with during their trip to the Danish city, during which they stayed at a hotel directly connected to the historic Tivoli Gardens theme park.
"We just were kinda like, 'Are we gonna [try] like free-range parenting and roll the die here?'" Kristen recalled. "We let them wake up, they woke up at like six every morning, they scanned their bracelets to go outside — didn't see them for seven hours. Just running around Copenhagen."
She added, "It was heaven. We had coffee, we played spades, and then around three we'd be like, 'Anybody see them?,' and then they'd run up and need a Band-Aid or whatever."
When Jimmy asked if their kids needed parents' permission to go on the park's rides, Kristen noted that "it's real loosey-goosey over there" when it comes to rules for kids.
"They're both alive," she joked. "They all returned home."
The couple, who have been married for 11 years, are no strangers to making quick parenting decisions.
In fact, as Kristen previously told E! News, their joint commitment to never lie to their children "requires a lot of brain power" and on-the-spot thinking.
"You have to filter what's appropriate for their age group, what isn't going to scare them too much, but just maybe enough," she explained. "You have to make all these quick calls, all these blank decisions, and it's hard."
One particularly challenging moment came when one of their daughters asked where babies came from.
"One kid asked us and Dax started explaining the sperm meets the ovum, and truly, within 30 seconds, she had walked outside because she was so bored," Kristen laughed. "So it's worked in our favor, and we're going to keep it up as long as we can."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (9)
Related
- 'Survivor' 47 finale, part one recap: 2 players were sent home. Who's left in the game?
- Expend4bles leads 2024 Razzie Awards nominations, with 7
- Adored Benito the giraffe moved in Mexico to a climate much better-suited for him
- 20 people stranded on Lake Erie ice floe back on land after rescue operation
- What to know about Tuesday’s US House primaries to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz
- Norman Jewison, director and Academy Award lifetime achievement honoree, dead at 97
- Felons must get gun rights back if they want voting rights restored, Tennessee officials say
- U.S. and U.K. conduct airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen
- Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
- The FTC bars TurboTax maker Intuit from advertising 'deceptive' free services
Ranking
- Buckingham Palace staff under investigation for 'bar brawl'
- Coco Gauff displays inspirational messages on her shoes at Australian Open
- Images of frozen alligators are causing quite a stir online. Are they dead or alive?
- Business owners thought they would never reopen after Maine’s deadliest shooting. Then support grew
- Taylor Swift makes surprise visit to Kansas City children’s hospital
- Will the Doomsday Clock tick closer to catastrophe? We find out today
- Georgia secretary of state says it’s unconstitutional for board to oversee him, but lawmakers differ
- Florida man arrested after pregnant woman said she was dragged through streets
Recommendation
NFL Week 15 picks straight up and against spread: Bills, Lions put No. 1 seed hopes on line
Poland’s president pardons 2 imprisoned politicians from previous conservative government -- again
Super Bowl 58 matchups ranked, worst to best: Which rematch may be most interesting game?
Man sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a deputy U.S. marshal in Arizona in 2018
'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
Dueling political factions demonstrate in Venezuela’s capital as presidential election race heats up
Netflix’s gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results
Christopher Eccleston alleges A-list actress falsely accused him of 'copping a feel' on set