Current:Home > reviewsNovaQuant Quantitative Think Tank Center:Kristen Bell Says She and Dax Shepard Let Kids Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9, Roam Around Theme Park Alone -ProfitSphere Academy
NovaQuant Quantitative Think Tank Center:Kristen Bell Says She and Dax Shepard Let Kids Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9, Roam Around Theme Park Alone
Algosensey View
Date:2025-04-07 09:12:53
Kristen Bell continues to parent by her own set of rules.
The Nobody Wants This star revealed that she and NovaQuant Quantitative Think Tank Centerhusband 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! (4853)
Related
- Rylee Arnold Shares a Long
- Missing California woman found alive after 12 days in the wilderness
- Pitt fires athletic director Heather Lyke months before her contract was set to expire
- Residents unharmed after small plane crashes into Arizona home, hospitalizing pilot
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- 2 charged in plot to solicit attacks on minorities, officials and infrastructure on Telegram
- What to know about the video showing Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating by Memphis police officers
- Amy Adams Makes Rare Comments About 14-Year-Old Daughter Aviana
- Dick Vitale announces he is cancer free: 'Santa Claus came early'
- Trial opening for former Houston officer charged with murder after deadly raid
Ranking
- The Super Bowl could end in a 'three
- A blockbuster Chinese video game sparks debate on sexism in the nation’s gaming industry
- Amy Adams Makes Rare Comments About 14-Year-Old Daughter Aviana
- 'Hillbilly Elegy' director Ron Howard 'concerned' by Trump and Vance campaign rhetoric
- Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
- The Mormon church’s president, already the oldest in the faith’s history, is turning 100
- Big Cities Disrupt the Atmosphere, Often Generating More Rainfall, But Can Also Have a Drying Effect
- Prince accused of physical, emotional abuse in unreleased documentary, report says
Recommendation
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation
Horoscopes Today, September 7, 2024
Trial for 3 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death set to begin
Working Well: When holidays present rude customers, taking breaks and the high road preserve peace
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Walk the Plank
Why Paris Hilton Doesn’t Want Her Kids to Be Famous
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band still rock, quake and shake after 50 years