During a recent vacation, Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell decided to relax a little with their kids. Over the summer, Shepard, Belle and their two daughters, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9, took a family trip to Denmark. As with some Americans traveling to Europe, there is definitely some culture shock, especially when it comes to safety and childcare.
“We try to travel somewhere every summer with the kids, and we just say we’re going to pick a place on Earth, but we don’t know the language, we don’t know the smell, we just don’t know what the food is like. ,” Bell, 44, shared during an appearance. Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“We just want to see how other people live and we’ll observe.”
This year, a family of four stopped in Denmark. While enjoying the “coolest” country, Bell realized that “going on vacation as a parent is not a vacation. You’re just watching your kids in another city.”
“This is worse than being at home,” Kimmel joked.
Very true!
However, she noticed something was different there. She and Shepard found the best way to get some kid-free time.
“The thing is, when we went to Copenhagen, we stayed in this hotel in Tivoli Gardens, which was like a seven-acre theme park,” she said.
“The hotel faces the theme park, so we were like, ‘Are we going to go free range and roll the dice here?’ They get up every morning at about six o’clock. They scan the bracelet and go out. [We] Haven’t seen them for seven hours. Just running around Copenhagen.
When Kimmel, 56, asked “is that okay?” Bell laughed and joked that everyone came back alive.
“That’s heaven,” she said. “We just had coffee. We played spades, and then around 3 o’clock we’d ask, ‘Has anyone seen them?’ “Then one of them will come running up and need a Band-Aid or something.
“Can they ride the rides without an adult?” Kimmel asked. “There seems to be one thing that most rides have…well, that’s right here, maybe it’s not over in Denmark yet.”
“No, it’s really loose there,” Bell said.
This isn’t the first time Bell and Shepard have made weird parenting calls. In 2023, Kristen Bell admitted that her kids sometimes drink non-alcoholic beers. She and Shepard appeared on Dax’s podcast Armchair Expert to discuss the incident (and the public’s reaction) in more depth — and they’re both doubling down on their parenting choices.
“My kids have ordered non-alcoholic beers at restaurants before, which sounds crazy if you didn’t know,” she began, telling Clarkson about the family’s recent trip to Disneyland. freezing The actress was named a Disney Legend.
Bell explained that her children’s taste for non-alcoholic suds came from Shepard, a recovering addict who drank non-alcoholic drinks from time to time.
The pair have also been open about issues such as mental health, having multiple children and having sex with children.
