When Jimmy Kimmel hosted Kristen Bell in his show for an interview, the famous Hollywood star had shared a story from their Denmark family trip. The story Bell shared caused her to be called “irresponsible,” along with her husband Dax Shepard.
“But don’t you find that going on vacation as a parent, it’s not a vacation, you’re just watching your kids in a different city?” Bell said in the interview, where Kimmel responded as, “It’s terrible. It’s terrible. It’s worse than being at home.”
“Truly! Because they have none of their creature comforts, they’re asking you a thousand more questions than they normally do,” Bell said then.
Bell shared that they stayed in Copenhagen, at Tivoli Gardens. She then explained the hack she used as a parent. “We just were kind of like, ‘Are we gonna like free-range parenting and roll the die here?’ We let them wake up — they woke up at like 6 every morning. They like scanned their bracelets to go outside — didn’t see ’em for seven hours. Just running around Copenhagen,” Bell said.
“Oh! Really?” Kimmel laughed, as Bell said, “They’re both alive. We all returned home.”
After the interview, the famous parents received backlash from social media about their parenting style.
“I’m sorry, but I just don’t agree! To each their own… I’m paranoid or helicopter Mom or whatever, but that would not be me!” A person commented.
“That is so irresponsible. Someone could have picked their daughters up and taken them away and then what would they have done?” Another one shared.
“I would never let them wander around alone and in a foreign country.” Wrote the third commenter, while another user shared, “9 and 11 is a little young to be allowed to roam around a theme park alone, in any country.”
But there were some people who defended the famous parents as, “Denmark is safe compared to so many countries.” A person commented, while another person wrote, “It’s not that uncommon for parents to let kids walk alone in Denmark.”
Back in time, Bell shared her thoughts about parenting with less strict rules as, “My feeling is that I chose a career in the public eye. I chose to be quoted, I chose to have my picture taken. I don’t know them yet. I don’t know if they will want that. So I really don’t have the right to choose for them.”
Bell also shared in May, “We always make up in front of them if anyone gets snarky […] or fights, which we all do. We do not have […] our conflict resolution, be behind closed doors […] we will apologize and make amends to each other in front of the kids so that they can see how conflict resolution actually happens.”
“So we try, as often as possible, to do that in front of them. If we fought in front of them, we want to also make up in front of them.” Dax Shepard also commented.
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