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Kristen Bell has opened up about trying a new parenting technique with her husband Dax Shepard.
The good place The actress recently revealed in Jimmy Kimmel Live! that while on holiday in Denmark with their two daughters, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, nine, they allowed their daughters to be alone in a theme park for hours.
“We stayed at a hotel that was right on Tivoli Gardens,” Bell said. “The hotel overlooks the theme park, so we were like, ‘Are we going to have kids free range and play dice here?’”
Free-range parenting is a method in which children spend long periods of time alone with the goal of increasing their independence and learning to be responsible for their actions at an early age.
He Veronica Mars The student explained that, with her own children, they would wake up at 6 a.m. and get ready for the day on their own. “They would scan their wristbands to go out,” she continued.[We] “I didn’t see them for seven hours. I was just running around Copenhagen.”
Bell called her free-range experience “paradise” as she and Shepard would simply drink coffee and play cards late into the afternoon.
“Around 3:00 we were like, ‘Did anybody see them?’ And then one of them would run up and need a Band-Aid or whatever,” she said.
Bell also stressed that everyone has returned home from vacation and that her two daughters “are alive.”
The actress also highlighted the Danish theme park's more lax policies and that children were allowed to “ride the rides without an adult.”
This isn't the first time Bell has shared her decisions as a mother. In June, she shared how she and Shepard talked to their children about death. During an interview with E! NewsHe explained that neither of them lie to their children, no matter what questions they ask.
“It takes a lot of mental effort because you have to filter out what is appropriate for their age group, what won’t scare them too much, but maybe enough. You have to make quick, blank-blank decisions, and it’s difficult,” she said.
“When my daughter first asked us, ‘What happens when we die?’, my husband and I looked at each other and thought, ‘Which story do we choose?’”
She revealed exactly how the two answered that question: “We were like, ‘We don’t know. You might turn into flowers, but you might end up. ’”
Although at first I didn't know how to answer the question, Frozen The actress was shocked by her daughter's response. “She cried for a minute. Then she said, 'It's OK,'” Bell said. “I still can't believe we got through that.”
Her daughters have also asked her where babies come from, though she admitted they wanted to end the conversation very quickly after Bell started giving them a truthful answer.
“A kid asked us and Dax started explaining to him that the sperm meets the egg,” she explained. “And actually, within 30 seconds she was already out on the street because she was so bored. So it worked in our favor and we’re going to keep doing it as long as we can.”
