Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are intentionally raising their two daughters to be “disrespectful,” the Armchair Expert host revealed on a recent episode.
The actor, 50, admitted to listeners that one of his close friends was “shook” over how Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 10, are allowed to “talk back” to their parents – “or anybody.”
During the chat, the Punk’d star’s friend said, “Yeah, your kids will let it rip.”
Shepard called his pal “dead right,” agreeing that “they seem to have no kind of respect… and feel a little entitled.”
He explained, “They do talk back and they are not respectful. I can understand where that seems completely unruly.”
The star dad further noted, “What I’m prioritising … is when they’re 19 and their boss is a f**king creep, I want them to talk back. I want them to be disrespectful. I want them to always advocate for themselves, whether I think they’re right or wrong.”
Shepard insisted he is “willing to deal” with the girls’ behaviour in the meantime, which his friend considered “embarrassing.”
“I can handle that because I want this other thing for them as women,” he said.
He and Bell, 45, welcomed Lincoln and Delta in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
The couple, who wed in October 2013, have since caused controversy over their parenting decisions over the years, from letting the little ones drink non-alcoholic beer to allowing them to roam around an amusement park on their own for hours.
Most recently, Shepard said his children can curse in their family home “when it’s called for.”
It was his and Bell’s marriage, however, that made headlines last month when the actress wished her partner a happy anniversary.
“Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: ‘I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivised to kill you, I never would,’” the Veronica Mars star captioned a PDA pic via Instagram in October.
While the tribute was slammed as a “tone-deaf” post by social media users – and labelled a “trivialising” joke by the National Network to End Domestic Violence – Bell is reportedly refusing to apologise.
The Golden Globe nominee allegedly “doesn’t want to be told how to live her life or be bullied into doing something.”
This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.
